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
Category: Themes
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
I sat through a software product demo this morning. The name of the product isn't relevant: I heard the words "one version of the truth" a few times, and also sat wondering if the self-same claims made today were being made about Lotus Notes back in the days when we called social "groupware". The words … Continue reading One version of the truth
Things I have learned this week: - if you want to get a big audience for a blog post, paraphrase The Sound of Music Next week: Edelweiss.
I spent yesterday afternoon at a fascinating event hosted by software development company Softwire, exploring issues of attracting and retaining young technology talent. Panelists Bill Thompson from the BBC, Softwire's CEO Zoe Cunningham and employer brand specialist Daria Taylor explored a number of themes. But by the end of the session I think I've concluded … Continue reading How do you solve a problem like millennials?
Office meeting rooms are the confluence of at least five disciplines: Workspace design professionals lay them out; Facilities management people service them; Telephony people provide some of the tech; IT people provide the rest; and learning and development people train people (occasionally) in good meeting practice. The result? Mostly a mess. Especially because the actual … Continue reading Will everybody please mute…
When it comes to change, as a species, we are lazy. We are lazy for good reason - changing how we act or behave significantly increases our exposure to risk, and has a negative impact on the performance of what we do. We're so lazy when it comes to change that we'll often reject changes … Continue reading The laziness fallacy
I must have been really bad in a previous life, because I find myself yet again in my career spending time staring at technology architecture models. If they in any way sound interesting, let me tell you quite strongly that you're deluded. However, there was one part of one of the diagrams I was pondering … Continue reading Define mobile?
I'm neither religious nor bought into the technology retailing cult that is Apple. As a result, I have a similar sensation when I enter into a church or an Apple store; a strong sense of being in the wrong place combined with a curiosity as to why so many people have gathered together to worship … Continue reading Retail experiences
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