The quarterly adjustments to the FTSE100 constituent members were announced today, and yet again we see the CEO community become a less socially-networked place. This is a phenomenon also seen at the last index review in December. The two new entrants to the top 100 companies, St James's Place Wealth Management and Barratt Developments, have … Continue reading FTSE100 March changes
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Tomorrow I'm presenting at the 2014 Connected Business expo. If you can't be there, here's what I'll be taking about. If you are coming along, this will distinctly spoil the surprise... You can download the slides here.
Next Wednesday I'm going to be presenting at the Connected Business event at Olympia. You can find my slides for this whistle-stop tour through the #socialCEO report and thoughts on networking in the social network era above!
There are times when I reckon I just don't get it. The world out there is different to the way I think, and I've got some sort of gap in my cognitive abilities. Last night's news about the WhatsApp purchase by Facebook (for anything up to a report $19Bn) was one of the those times, … Continue reading Bloody hockey sticks
The recent Year of Code debacle has had me looking back at the work of the first great coding educationalist, Seymour Papert. If you're not aware of Papert's work, but you are of a certain age, you may have come across his programming language invention Logo - a syntax to control the actions of … Continue reading Purple turtles
About six months ago I started writing a series of observations about how the world of technology and marketing and communications are being changed by one another, and how many of the industries that have built up in those fields don't feel to be a particularly good fit any more. It then sat in my … Continue reading /marketing TheNewThing
When I was a kid I had the opportunity to learn to code. It wasn't a "right" - I was just lucky to be in a home where there was a computer (a BBC Micro that my dad had supplied by his work). In those days in the mid-Eighties, coding was pretty much synonymous … Continue reading A fuller appreciation
Two themes in my Twitter stream today that have been fused together in my mind. 1) the government's Universal Credit benefits reform, turning into a great beast of a disaster. At it's core (from where I see it) "IT disasters" resulting from ineffective change management, an over-confidence that technology in its own right can deliver … Continue reading Would learning to code help?
https://twitter.com/furtherfield/status/431407949672480768 In my lifetime I've known three meanings of the word "hack": to go at something with a sharp implement; to (criminally) break into computing resources that you shouldn't; and to botch a bit of programming to get it working, or just to see whether something might do. None of those definitions are particularly positive. … Continue reading Hacked off
Imagine the scenario. You're running late for a meeting. You need to let the person you're meeting know that you are running late. You reach for your mobile phone. What channel do you choose? My experience over the past few months is that most people choose to send a text message. We have learned, somehow, … Continue reading Tech preferences
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