I spend my time flitting from organisation to organisation, across many different sectors, and looking at often quite different challenges. Technology is usually the linking thread, although not always. A question that I'm not hearing being asked in a structured way in organisations today is "Which approach should we be taking?". What instead seems to … Continue reading Which path to take?
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“Tell me the future!” It’s a common request. We seem almost hard-wired to seek out prophets and sages, oracles and seers. No wonder then that so many iterations of software product have laid claim to the names of the fortune tellers of the past. Data-driven decision making is an exercise in charting trendlines. The experience … Continue reading The future CIO
For the past couple of years I've been playing with the concept of play. At the core of my thinking is the idea that as we progress into adulthood most of us systematically remove our abilities to tinker with things, play with them to no particular end so that we can explore them. This is … Continue reading Play games…
I had a fascinating chat last night with the CEO of a fairly large financial services organisation. He is in the process of assessing a few startups who are taking part in an accelerator programme. One of the startups is pushing "Blockchain", but it wasn't entirely clear for what end. There were a couple of … Continue reading A corporate guide to distributed ledgers
This week I have learned: I really ought to have paid more attention to my DNS settings. Oh well, lesson learned. 525GB of SSD costs just £125. Laptop duly upgraded. I always feel happier with hardware I can take the lid off and, more importantly, successfully put back on, I guess in a similar way … Continue reading Weeknote 368: new year
Twice today I've referred people to an article I wrote back in 2014 entitled "Is it really happening so quickly?". The gist of the piece was a retort to the often-heard claim that things these days are happening ever so much faster than they ever have done. In the article I resorted to using actual … Continue reading The Long Nose
It's that time of year when people predict the year ahead. Strap in... 2018 will be pretty much the same as 2017. Some things will be different. Most of the things that are different will just be following a trend. A handful will be dramatically different. The things that are following trends are the ones … Continue reading 2018 Futureballs
Oh boy I buy a lot of books on Kindle. Here's 2017's method of mass consumption in order of purchase... Pre-suasion Robert Cialdini's long-awaited follow up to the seminal book Influence, in which he looks at the ways in which we can seed people and situations to make influence more likely. City of Fortune I … Continue reading Bookshelf 2017
On Thursday my friend and podcasting co-host Chris went for a walk. Since knowing about the 90 Waypoint Walk from seeing Marcus Brown present at Silicon Beach in 2016, it's been singing I've been itching to try. Christmas rambles seemed to be the ideal opportunity. The 90 Waypoint Walk is a route that can be followed anywhere. … Continue reading Walking
This week I have learned: Going for a walk is restorative The ability to just take random turns is a metaphor for my working life at the moment. It's liberating. Even more so when you secure a big new contract I need to find a way (and a venue) to bring Marcus's The Passing to … Continue reading Weeknote 366: rambling
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