Over the course of my career I've made a couple of significantly sideways steps to extend my experience and learning. The first came at the end of 2004. After a dozen years of working in the IT industry, and having had eight years working for the BBC, I needed a change. Technology was significantly changing … Continue reading Disrupt yourself
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I spent some time chatting yesterday with a CIO who is planning his own succession. There are two potential internal candidates, but obviously neither has the experience of leading a technology organisation, so there are capability gaps. On an interim basis the organisation is looking to put both in charge until a new leader can … Continue reading Singular Leadership
Yesterday and today I'm part of a discussion panel organised by Dimension Data looking at the move of telephony into the Cloud. The discussions, part of the UCExpo event, find me alongside representatives from some of the big telecoms vendors. It's been an interesting experience so far, and it strikes me that telephony is running … Continue reading Phones in the Cloud
For some time now I've been toying with the idea of writing a recipe book. Not recipes for food, but instead for how to manage and lead in organisations in the early 21st; a time where technology is changing, to a lesser or greater extent, how we communicate, and how we operate. Mostly this is … Continue reading 21st Century Management recipe cards
Seems like a fairly innocuous question, doesn't it? Surely a piece of information that HR can just roll of the tips of their tongues? Well, in the shifting sands of today's virtual organisations, it's not as easy to answer "how many people work for us?" as it used to be. You have employees. You have … Continue reading How many people work for us?
A frequent refrain in UK election coverage at the moment is that this is the UK's first "Social Media" election. The truth is that five years is an awfully long time in media and technology these days, and the dynamics of communications for this year's ballot are vastly different to the last... The Social Media … Continue reading The (insert Tech buzzword) Election
Last week was spent with my family, getting away from it in the wonderful isolation of the New Forest in Dorset. Feeding chickens and pigs, avoiding over-curious ponies, getting mild sunburn... And generally not thinking that much about work. One thread that did come to mind, however, was how three (or four, depending on your views … Continue reading “I don’t know”
My digital life has been increasingly moving to the cloud over the past six years. Since 2009 my use of online services to store data has steadily increased, and then my shift to using Chromebook for my main device in 2013 accelerated that shift. I've even got to the stage now where my "download" folder … Continue reading Clouds/Smoke
I spent a great couple of hours in the company of Anne Marie McEwan yesterday in the inspiring setting of the Royal Festival Hall. Our conversation covered many areas, but one thing that sprung up was why issues of improving the world of work should be of particular importance to employers at this point in time. … Continue reading The Employer 5 Forces
I've argued in the past that the holy office trinity of Word, Powerpoint and Excel have a questionable future not because of an better word processor, presentation tool or spreadsheet coming along, but because they are tools from another era that are increasingly no longer fit for purpose. The way in which smart phones in … Continue reading Incompatibilities
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