The recent announcements by Barclays Bank about their bulk purchase of iPads has got me thinking about the way in which it seems the consumerisation of technology is having an interesting effect - we are becoming more besotted with the software and devices than ever before. The "news" was the purchase of the devices, yet … Continue reading Business change in a consumerised world
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About 13 years ago, I found myself trying to get people to understand why it would be beneficial to use a services-oriented architecture in the work we were doing to build business systems at BBC Worldwide. It was a tricky task, because whilst it all felt right from a technical purist perspective, actually adding in … Continue reading The joy of hindsight
There are a few key things that stand out from my memories of my University academic studies, and one of them is the ideas behind a book written in 1958 by Michael Young (father, I found out this morning, of journalist Toby) called The Rise of Meritocracy. In Young's satire, he paints a picture of … Continue reading Data enslavement
Human beings, I believe, are losing a skill. It's not a particularly important skill, but it is one that we developed as result of an old technology, and one that we are losing as a result of a new technology. We are losing the ability to remember telephone numbers. Nearly 40 years on, my parents' … Continue reading Machine-unreadable
The London Conference on Cyberspace and associated commentary , along with seeing "ethical hacker" Jason Hart speak last week has got me thinking about what seems to be the central paradox of information security: The problem with information security isn't the information, nor the system, but the people using them. But the more that you … Continue reading The security paradox
For those of you who like to play PowerPoint karaoke... Seed hack presentation View more presentations from mattballantine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otc5n0pWn8w Another whiteboard session for you - covering a bit of management theory that I think is particularly relevant to IT heads today.
An interesting morning at the Ovum event. When talking with peers and people from the analyst community it becomes more apparent how radical to some much of what we are doing is at Imagination. The slides from today's presentation are available below. Not sure that they will make much sense without me blathering along to … Continue reading Information Management and Collaboration event
Had a session on Friday afternoon with Cisco, using their Telepresence system at Tower 42 in the City. It's an amazing experience in that, after a few minutes, you don't really notice that you are using the technology. It's the second time that I've used the system, and the first time got a bit more … Continue reading Telepresence at Tower 42
I'm currently involved in a big transformation project, and it strikes me that the standard IT approach to developing solutions tends to miss the journey getting there. In a slightly geeky way, I've always been impressed with the way in which Ikea design their products, and I think that there is something that we in … Continue reading the Ikea design ethic
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