Without doubt, the most challenging part of the move to Google Apps has been the reaction from some to the fundamental way in which Google Mail structures the information that is presented to the user. Individual emails are threaded together into logical conversations, and you don't put emails into folders, you can place labels onto … Continue reading The slow evolution of email
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Following an article in this month's WiredUK by Russell M. Davies, as of tomorrow I'm going to try to get into the habit of doing Weeknotes.
An interesting morning at the Ovum event. When talking with peers and people from the analyst community it becomes more apparent how radical to some much of what we are doing is at Imagination. The slides from today's presentation are available below. Not sure that they will make much sense without me blathering along to … Continue reading Information Management and Collaboration event
One of my mentors died today. I first got to know Brian back in 2001. It came from one of those rare occasions when an unsolicited piece of direct marketing fell onto my desk at a serendipitous time. It was advertising an Internal Consulting training course at Techniques for Change. I had been working for … Continue reading Brian Prytz
I've a handful of speaking engagements coming up in the next few months, to talk about the opportunities that Cloud and Software as a Service give to CIOs to reinvent their departments (continuing on from the Porter's Five Forces article I wrote a few weeks ago), and our experiences in the past 12 months at … Continue reading Things to talk about…
It's well acknowledged that Steve Jobs took great inspiration from a visit he and others from Apple made in 1979 to the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Xerox were a strange company - they invested in an R&D facility that had huge prophetic influence, and yet they managed to commercially exploit just about none … Continue reading Steve Jobs last insanely great idea was in 1979…
I've been witnessing the NHS at reasonably close quarters again in the past fortnight. Dad has been in for fairly major surgery, and will be convalescing for some time to come. My experience of the health service, both as punter and as consultant (management variety) makes me think that the fundamental issues facing the NHS … Continue reading The perils of expertise
There's a model that's common within the MBA world that describes the different sorts of competitive forces to which an organisation may find itself subjected. Defined by Harvard Business School's Michael Porter in 1979, his "Five Forces" are, in simple terms: - market rivalry (simple competition from others doing what you do); - client power … Continue reading Porter’s Five Forces (and the news for CIOs)
The first phase of our Google project, migrating 550 users across the globe onto the system for email, calendar, contacts and chat, completed last week. The project has run very smoothly so far, and it looks like we are in a good position to move forward into utilising Docs and Sites in the next few … Continue reading Continual improvement
So here we go. The 2010 General election. Something to keep the bookies busy in the run up to the World Cup. Whilst my own voting intentions are already made up (I don't like tax evaders at the best of times, more so when they have the audacity to ask for responsibility for spending HMRC … Continue reading Election 2.0
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