I spent this evening at an event organised by Mortimer Spinks with a theme of open vs closed. They had three speakers... one a white hat hacker whose thrust seemed to be that passwords are an inherently rubbish form of security and therefore everything is probably "open", a chap from an online fashion retailer who … Continue reading Open vs closed
Category: Themes
I'm a generally simple soul and like to be able to express things in seven boxes (or fewer). It's taken me a while to get my head around the way in which the world of developing software is changing to an extent that I can turn it into a diagram, but the catalyst for the boxes … Continue reading It’s all about the apps
Achievements this week included: - some time in the office to get one-to-one time with many of the team - the opportunity to check out our competition at @ipexpo - great conversations with Beth from our Netherlands' subsidiary... - ... a bunch of people at The National Theatre ... - ... and Phil and Simon from … Continue reading Weeknote 71: awaydays
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
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
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