And so the experiment begins. A few waves of good luck from the Twitter masses, a few expressions of interest in the outcomes, and one person commenting that I'll be back on the PC before I know it (an interesting immediate misinterpretation of the word "notebook"). I fired up Evernote, swiped the Pencil across the … Continue reading The no-notebook experiment: day 1
I'm a notebook junkie. I'm currently toting a rather fetching Leuchtturm1917 in a very fetching orange. After much experiementation over the years, my pen of choice is the Pentel Sign Pen, usually in blue or black. I love the immediacy of paper and pen. I love the tactility. It helps me to think, to explain, to … Continue reading Going notebookless
The dog days of summer in the hills...
This week I have learned: to get my head around something of the complexity of modelling and managing geospatial information in the world of GIS. the higher up they are, the more likely they are to postpone. that I've missed spending time in the British Museum. that boats permanently moored on the Thames still move … Continue reading Weeknote 350: polygons
After many years of increasing professionalism, and the rise of complex management frameworks, the world of business technology management is now in a stat of turmoil. Put simply: nobody really these days has the first clue on how you manage information technology in a big business. It had got relatively clear. Technology was a cost … Continue reading Shifting the balance
This week I have learned: Footie's back, then. To continue to value the conversations that start on Twitter and then go elsewhere I have missed out on about 10 years of listening to music by not having a decent set of loudspeakers. Foolish. I really need to knuckle down and write my Silicon Beach talk. … Continue reading Weeknote 349: Calcio
Picture the scene. We've created a multi-sheet Excel workbook, maybe with links into other workbooks, and it's used by a dozen people in our department. Gill who originally created the spreadsheet left the organisation years ago. But we've managed to keep it going, adding duplicate sheets where we weren't entirely clear how Gill's formulae and … Continue reading Data-based organisations
This week I have learned: the sense of enormous relief to be found at coming towards the end of a major building project that everyone seems to know it's all about the people, but we still look to the inanimate objects for answers the simple stuff is sometimes the most valuable Next week: the bit … Continue reading Weeknote 348: Cupertino
I've run a lot of workshops. I've attended even more. There have been good, there have been bad. There have been the truly shocking. In all of my years of workshopping, the single tool that I have found to be the most useful is a simple technique for planning rather than any particular technique in … Continue reading Planning a workshop
Back in my later days at BBC Worldwide in the early 2000s, I commissioned a piece of research to look at the habits that our staff had in their use of file storage and email. The work, looking back, was relatively unusual. I brought in a social scientist to do a piece of ethnographic research … Continue reading The ubiquitous inbox
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