Work with one of my clients at the moment is focused on the use and adoption of collaborative tools - social networks within the organisation. This is a path down which I have travelled a number of times over the years, but I'm realising this time around that something is now fundamentally different. Before, questions … Continue reading What’s stopping you?
Category: Technology
The dust has had some time to settle now on last week's Nadellagate, and it's left me thinking that the tech industry, and IT in particular, has a deeper issue of lack of a diversity of thought of which gender bias is just a symptom. I'm not one who particularly believes in diversity for diversity's … Continue reading Limited memepools
During Social Media Week in London, along with Katie King, I presented on the challenges that Social and Digital channels are placing onto the ways in which organisations are interacting with their customers. The presentation gave an overview of the report that I researched and wrote this summer for IG Digital. You can see the … Continue reading Social Media Week – The Social Challenge
On Saturday I wanted a pizza. I’d been out to watch Watford play at Vicarage Road for the first time in about five years, had had a couple of pints on the way back, and couldn’t be bothered to cook. I’m not a habitual take-away food consumer, but once in a while… I downloaded the … Continue reading The dominos effect
I'm living a semi-corporate life at the moment, with a longer term piece of contract work with a large client. Having spent the past 12 months pivoting on a sixpence, I'm now experiencing some of the things I'd vaguely forgotten - and top of the list is that broker of inefficient productivity, the networked diary. … Continue reading Efficient unproductivity
This post is in the “cheaper than therapy” category a little more than usual, but expresses some of the paradoxical stuff I’m currently mentally wrestling with… First of all, nobody can predict the future. I don’t care if you’ve been blessed with the magic pixie dust of mysticism, or the magic pixie dust of big … Continue reading Confusion
This morning saw the culmination of about five months' work - the release of the research report that I've investigated and compiled over this summer for IG Digital, and the event organised in conjunction with social PR firm Zoodikers at which we launched. The research involved me speaking with or online interrogating people from 65 organisations across … Continue reading Meeting of minds
You've got to love the Internet. Find a challenge that you haven't come across before? Tippetty-tap on Google and before you know it you've found someone who has already. And so it has been with the issues of agile approaches to software delivery in the context of collaboration tools that I mentioned earlier this week. … Continue reading Collaborative personae
I've been immersing myself back in the world of agile methods in the past couple of weeks, and one thing above all else has been striking me; agile methods are focused on the individual. This is particularly notable because I'm thinking about the ways in which collaborative software could help to improve the ways in … Continue reading The individualism of software development
So the much-hyped Apple product launch event came and went. A couple of new (bigger) phones, a payment system and a new album from a bunch of has-beens. Oh, and a watch. Apple Watch. Not iWatch because someone else bear them to that brand. A new "form factor-defining" product from Cupertino? Now let's be clear … Continue reading Who’s watching?
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