This week saw a new addition to the team, a Technical Architect. Except he's been around for a while. I'm firmly of the belief that we need to look to do things better now we have found out that flexible working can work at scale, rather than constantly pining for how things "used to be". … Continue reading Liminal Employment Spaces
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I had a fascinating conversation with one of our non-Exec directors this morning about life in general, and for a point about AI in particular. He by day is the CFO of a travel business, a world that has become consumed by sophisticated pricing algorithms in the last 20 years. As he pointed out, though, … Continue reading When the past can’t predict the future
This morning I ran a session in which I took my team through an exercise to explore skills and capabilities that we have as we beginning a massive programme of change in the organisation. Here's a few notes on the objectives, the structure and how it went... The Objectives The team has recently expanded with … Continue reading PlayCards Field Notes: a game for teams to explore innovation skills and gaps
Things I have learned this week: There is no such thing as “just an upgrade”.Medium-sized business finance systems is an area ripe for innovative disruption because all of the incumbents are crap.Working with other peer organisations is a great way to get people out of the weeds of pet issues.Ethical decision making should be much … Continue reading Weeknote 539: just another weeknote
This week I have learned: the power of visualisation on a maphow exciting/daunting it is to talk to a designer about PlayCardshow fucking daunting it is to wait for surgery......and then have that surgery cancelledthat the 7S model is still so very usefulthat self-isolation is hard Next week: planning in detail The week in photos:
It's a few weeks now since I started the final stage of my Play project, creating a set of playing cards that distil six or so years of research and investigation into a valuable and practical tool, so here's a quick update for you on progress... First of all, thank you so much to the … Continue reading PlayCards Update
This week I have learned: that such a simple typo could lead to a viral.that having something go a bit viral on Twitter totally makes Twitter unusable.but it's quite fun.purchasing a new car is a mixture of the new an old; sales people in suits and paper receipts (hand written) meet restore factory defaults and … Continue reading Weeknote 536: typo
I spent some time last week with someone involved in business development for a tech consulting firm. The starting point was a question about what sorts of things might attract people to participate in online events. This isn’t quite how the conversation went, but it does recall some of the challenges I think online event … Continue reading Why I struggle with online events
This week I have learned: How to make baklavaThat by making a decision to stop something, you open up a huge new world of possibilitiesThat I refuse to believe that this is the best that the summer has to offerThat maybe we need to form urban remote working communitiesThat I might be bottom of the … Continue reading Weeknote 535: stop-starting
After a long old journey, I've made the decision to stop working (Deviate: Disrupt yourself) on the book that's been my pet project for the past few years. If it had been meant to be, it would have happened by now. Being busy at work is part of the issue, but more broadly my thinking … Continue reading The Play Book is Dead. Long Live PlayCards!
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