So here's a theory: the reliability of any device's network connection is directly proportionate to the device's size. Think about it... desktop computer/big/always connected; mobile phone/small/network constantly interrupted; laptop/medium/usually connected for most people these days; slate or tablet (does my time at Microsoft show yet in that I didn't say iPad?)/mid-sized/who knows... It's hardly Moore's … Continue reading Network by volume
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Achievements mostly spent with global colleagues in Madrid this week included: - refining a model where audiences sit at the heart of all my team do (all as in everything they do and every one of them) - making connections with a number of peers from across the globe... - ... and some of the people who run the … Continue reading Weeknote 70: changes of scene
One of my team, Andrew Spooner (@andspo) has produced a wonderful series of three short films that interview leading lights from the broader design world about aspects of design that are important in the digital domain. They are now all available on YouTube: Tony Howard from the Transport Design Consultancy talks about helping people to … Continue reading Aspects of digital design
Another thought-provoker from last week's management course was when discussing the concept of continuous improvement. The idea stemmed from movements like Kaizen in the industrial world, where organisation focused on making continual step improvements to processes to improve efficiency and quality. During the course, a somewhat cliched slide appeared which had a graph - time ran … Continue reading Continuous standing still
Much of last week was spent at a management training course, the like of which I have both attended and run over the years. Towards the end of the event we looked at building personal brands, and it got me thinking... A clear message from the course content was that authenticity is a key element … Continue reading Inauthentic Brands
There's been a lot of eulogising for Steve Jobs in the past couple of days. There's been much comment about how he changed a lot of lives (undoubtedly), some about his "unusual" style of management (read: "autocratic"), and a few that have maybe started to stretch the truth a bit already (no - he wasn't … Continue reading Customers first
Achievements this week included: - mapping out the next 12 months in Gantt chart stylee - most helpful - getting the team to make a statement about the evangelism role now and into the future - three days of management training reminding me of how important it is to take stock properly... - ...(and if … Continue reading Weeknote 69 – Avoiding the obvious
"Back in the day" (a phrase I feel it's inevitable I will get to use more and more as I get older) if you wanted to find something out about a group of people, you'd ask them through a survey. The process was riddled with issues: people generally needed some sort of incentive to complete … Continue reading Skewed questioning
Achievements this week included: - clarity starts to emerge on our approach to spreading the word in the next nine months - views into how we can use data from our app marketplaces... - ...and strategies about how we can manage contact data more effectively - and completed this, my 400th blog post Next week: … Continue reading Weeknote 68: blog post 400
I was in conversation with a consultant chum of mine recently who made an interesting observation about his view on CIOs in the UK at the moment; from his perspective, they fall into three chunks (his idea/my terminology): The transformationals, who see technology as an enabler to businesses, and are working to align the technology … Continue reading Three CIO paths…
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