This morning saw about 450 people across the globe at Imagination Go Google. The project, which has been running since the beginning of September, has been a truly cross-business affair, involving a team of people spread from Sydney through to Los Angeles. At the outset, the objectives were lofty. Accessible information distributed globally between team … Continue reading Gone
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Another impact of the way in which the delivery of information systems is changing is in the way in which IT departments can control the use of technology within organisations. The traditional model was that IT departments provided white lists of approved applications. If the IT department said you could use it, then you could. … Continue reading Blacklisting
There is an article in today's Observer (here) which describes the £8,000 bill that an Orange 3G dongle user picked up for using the device in Paris. I really, really struggle to understand why the mobile networks are still being allowed to get away with this nonsense. Roamed data should be cheap, because (unlike roamed … Continue reading The roamed data madness
Today I met with a friend of a friend, who works in the more one of the more tangential parts of the international finance business. In conversation, I mentioned how important I have found that it is to me to work in organisations where I have an interest and affinity with the products or services … Continue reading Mash ups and Widgets (not Wash ups and midgets)
It's curious to watch the way in which the Goliaths of old media have lined up their pieces in preparation for the battle of free media. Is it just me, or is the iPad looking increasingly like the output from a series of brainstorming sessions entitled "how do we do an iTunes for print?". The … Continue reading The battle for free
Thinking back to past experience, I give you the rules of ERP. 1) Hire a consultant 2) Build an unrealistic sense of possibility 3) Define requirements 4) Specify a product based mostly on what you can afford to pay 5) Purchase a product. 6) Implement and prepare for disappointment 7) Find that you don't get … Continue reading The Rules of ERP
January 27th marks the date when I will begin to get a stack of requests for the new Apple iSlate/iTablet/iWant or whatever the Cupertino branding gurus are eventually going to call the thing. The Apple marketing machine is into silent over-drive as the world waits in awe to see what comes next from the Jobs/Ives … Continue reading Keep taking the iTablets
I caught up with an former colleague Charlie from Reuters on Wednesday night, and amongst other things we chatted about the things that have been being done in our respective organisations with providing interactive meeting spaces. Thomson Reuters have gone down the Cisco telepresence route. I've done something a bit cheaper. Here's a summary... We … Continue reading Interactive meeting rooms
One of my major objectives in 2010 is to improve the way in which my team provides help, guidance and understanding to the creative communities within Imagination. Whilst we are pretty good at providing processes and business services, tools to help creative people be more creative is more of a challenge. I've spent a lot … Continue reading The Creative Cloud
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