We live in a time of data. Given that, it constantly surprises me how badly so many organisations manage the stuff. In particular, most organisations find themselves today with silos of information across multiple systems that don't quite match up; data integrity issues where slight variations exist from system to system, but then more pernicious … Continue reading CIO Priorities 15 – Data Integration
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Underpinning just about every Smart, Flexible or Modern Working project that I've seen in the past few years has been an overriding business imperative: save rent. This isn't something that is a universal organisational need. Speaking with experts in the field, in much of the United States, for example, it's far more common to find … Continue reading CIO Priorities 14 – Real estate costs
Seems a simple question, doesn't it? Where do you work? And yet as we sit on the edge of what we are being told as being the beginnings of seismic shifts in patterns of how we work, my hunch is that the responses to that question are changing, will continue to change, and for many … Continue reading Where do you work?
This week I have learned: The continuing excitement of launching an actual physical product. Schiphol airport have removed the need for passengers to take laptops and liquids out of bags at security. It makes a huge positive difference to how faffy the whole process can be. The fundamentals of how a dentist practice is managed. … Continue reading Weeknote 390: new client klaxon
CIO Priority 3: Creating platforms and services that can scale to meet internet-scale demand. The Internet is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down to the bottom of your inbox, but that's just peanuts to the Internet.* In comparison to … Continue reading CIO Priorities 3: Internet Scale
I've recently launched Stamp London's first physical product - a set of playing cards called CIO Priorities. You can find out more about them here, and order a set for yourself here (or simply download the PDF and print them out). Over the next few weeks I'm going to run through each of the cards … Continue reading CIO Priorities 1: Industry context
I've been working on developing a product. An actual physical thing that you can hold in your hands. It's a set of playing cards. I call them CIO Priorities. The idea has been gestating for a while: I spend a lot of my time talking with and looking at what technology leaders in organisations do … Continue reading Some games to play
It's a year of anniversaries of five. This month see five years of working under the banner of Stamp. This October will mark five squared years of me in full time work. When I ventured into the world of office work in the autumn of 1993 it was a very different place to that that … Continue reading Has nobody noticed yet?
I got a reminder via LinkedIn this morning that it's now five years since I launched upon this madcap free-range experiment that I call Stamp. Coincidentally it would have been my grandmother's 100th birthday yesterday, and 2013 would have been granddad's centenary. Living to 100 was something that very few of their generation could have … Continue reading Five years
This week I have learned: My ability to think on my feet is still pretty good. The competitive spirit that can be provoked in many people who work in corporates leaves me bemused. Working out loud is such an alien concept to so many people. The fear of something so often is so much greater … Continue reading Weeknote 387: Maths Co-processor
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