I'm currently writing a report. It's something that is going to be being published next month. Because we are "publishing" the report, I want it to be delivered in a format that is identifiably a thing, an object. But because the report is about digital transformation, I want the report to live to those values … Continue reading Replacing paper
Category: Themes
At the beginning of next month I'm going to be starting a significant piece of work for a new client. At the moment I don't know how much I'll be able to talk about it. That makes me somewhat unsettled. Suffice to say the client is someone that you will have heard of, and the … Continue reading Confidence in confidentiality
In email conversations yesterday with my Innovation Engine co-conspirator Richard Hale, he noted that increasingly he's seeing the word "disruption" being used by the people that he is working with.Maybe you should do a blog on the theme of disruptive/disruptionhe said.Well, here goes.For me, this is all about a continuum of change, as illustrated above … Continue reading Innovate or disrupt?
I've developed a new approach to finding new books to read. In one of my more progressive acts of parenting, I tend to take the boys to the local library once a week. Whilst there, I'm also looking out for something to pick up myself. No longer am I relying on Amazon recommendations - I'm … Continue reading Inside the box
This Venturebeat article caught my eye this morning and got me thinking. It first got me thinking that my kids have no concept of TV as anything other than an object (the big screen in the living room). TV isn't even a metaphor for them... "We want to watch something" is their plaintiff cry when … Continue reading TV is just a metaphor
Over the past few months I've been conducting some research into the use of new digital channels amongst organisations in the UK on behalf of The IG Group. I'm currently going through the analysis of dozens of interviews carried out as part of that process (the full report will be available in the Autumn). As … Continue reading What do you do?
Over the past six months I've been working with Dr Richard Hale who is one of the world's greatest authorities in a people development methodology known as Action Learning. He and I have been thinking about ways in which his rich, proven and academically substantiated frameworks can be delivered in a way that can help … Continue reading Innovation Engine
Responsive Design is a big thing at the moment. If a website has been made to be responsive, it means that it adapts itself to display reasonably sensibly on any screen size (within reason). There are two alternatives to responsive design - do nothing, so that the website appears just as it would on a … Continue reading Going mobile: Day 4: Responsive design
I think that one of my motivations in this mobile-only experiment is the attitude that persists in some parts of the IT community, and that was prevalent when I arrived for my short stint at Microsoft back in 2011 - that mobile phones are "content consumption" devices, that couldn't be used for "proper" computing. That … Continue reading Going Mobile: Day 2: “Proper” computing
One of the things that has come up a lot from others when launching into this mobile-only experiment is that the screen on a mobile phone just isn't big enough to completely replace a laptop. Screen size is subject to two measures - physical screen size, and pixel size. The Nexus 5 that I have … Continue reading Going Mobile: Day 2: screen estate
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