In the summer I’ve been invited to take part in the Spark the Change conference being organised by Dan Rough and the team at Gamevy, an interesting software company that produces games, and is organised on non-management principles. Dan’s one of the folk who follows this blog, and an article I wrote a few months … Continue reading Huh? Nah! Mmm? Ahh!
Category: Technology
I've heard from a few sources recently that there is a move afoot in Whitehall to replace CIOs (Chief Information Officers) in government departments with CTOs (Chief Technology Officers) and CDOs (Chief Digital Officers). I don't know the validity of that story, but it strikes me as credible as an attempt to shift the technology … Continue reading What’s in a name?
For some time now I've been using the example of the recorded music distribution world as a metaphor for how organisations might change and adapt into the world in which we find ourselves. Initially I talked in terms of Spotify or iTunes, but this is the fuller-nuanced version. There's no one right way in which an … Continue reading Digital business models
There's been an image of an early 1980s Byte Magazine cover that's been doing the rounds on Twitter aligned to a story by Harry McCracken on Time's website about the trouble with futurology. It's all been irking me, and I'm trying to work out why. The first reason it irks me is that lots of … Continue reading The innovative power of combination
Obfuscation is currently one of my favourite words. It seems to express something that seems to happen in so many circumstances, and it also is one of those few words that you are actually, to some extent, doing by using it. It also is a word that perfectly sums up the pricing strategies of telecoms … Continue reading Obfuscation
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” Bill Gates Bill's observation about our ability to over-hype the near future and underplay the long term really holds true in bullish markets. You can see it at the moment, both in the hype surrounding next … Continue reading The last big bubble burst
The Guardian's Charles Arthur tweeted the graph above and an article yesterday looking at how time spent on mobile devices breaks down across apps and the mobile web. Mobile, so long the place the advertisers failed to make an impact, is now big ad business (and both The Guardian and Microsoft Advertising have a vested … Continue reading Not all apps are created equal
Every so often I take stock of the devices and services that I use in my day-to-day working (and not-working) life. Here's where I'm at as of April 2014: Devices Samsung Chromebook I've written about my experiences with Chromebook (a post that still gets quite a few views) and I'm generally pretty happy with … Continue reading The toolkit
According to reports in The Daily Telegraph today over 3/4 of British businesses are running Windows XP, the operating system that Microsoft moves to "end of life" status next week. The headline is obviously misleading. 77% of UK businesses using XP isn't anything like 77% of British business PCs using the old OS which estimates within … Continue reading Any worse at end of life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJzTKyp6LYE Here's a retelling of the presentation that I gave at last week's CIO network event. You can find further materials at http://stamplondon.co.uk/winmarkevent
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