A while back I wrote about an increasing feeling of worry I have with the way in which many disruptive digital start ups seem to take a fairly dismissive attitude to the established norms of society. Whilst that's on the one hand somewhat obvious (how can you be disruptive if you're not challenging the status … Continue reading The only way is ethics*
Things I have learned this week: the website for requesting a new business bank account at HSBC is a horrorshow The Sharing Organization project is GO! (but that "z" is going to piss me off) (so much for a global language) Membership of The British Museum is possibly the best value co-working space in London. And … Continue reading Weeknote 257: up and running
A few weeks ago I was able to announce, somewhat cryptically, another role on my ever-extending LinkedIn profile - as a Research Associate for the Leading Edge Forum. Now I can put some meat on the bones... The LEF have commissioned me to run an extensive research project looking into a topic which has fascinated … Continue reading The Sharing Organization
There was one line in Aditya Chakrabortty's column yesterday about Jeremy Corbyn's ascent to the leadership of the Labour Party that got me thinking... Moments before his final campaign rally last Thursday, I asked Corbyn how much of a work-in-progress his opposition would be. A lot, came the answer: everything hung on who would join … Continue reading Agile Politics
I've a couple of events in the next few weeks where I'm speaking. Next week is the 2015 CIO Summit, and I'm going to be running a session with my old Imagination chum Tony Phillips looking at branding the CIO and the IT department. Then in October I'm going to be taking part in a panel … Continue reading Coming up…
Things I have learned this week: it appears that Salesforce are living the dream of Utility Computing by having customer service as bad as that of the average telco or energy company some people continue to seem surprised that I can make real-world connections with people through all of this social networking malarky change without … Continue reading Weeknote 256: 8 Bit
I'm not generally a big fan of sporting metaphors in business, as they tend to be overly reductive, but the one that has been adapted from a quote Canadian ice hockey-player Wayne Gretzky is interesting and something that I'm hearing quite a bit these days: I skate to where the puck is going to be, … Continue reading Run to where the ball will be passed…
The world of software productivity and collaboration has, over the past five years, been heading distinctly cloud-wards. Over the past six years quite a bit of my time has been involved in projects involving both Google Apps and Office 365, and here are a few reflections on that experience and the current state of play … Continue reading Seven things I’ve learned from using Office 365 and Google Apps
From a parallel universe somewhere in the future... The trouble started back in 2017 with the launch of the #noProjects Manifesto. Agile and DevOps had become the norm, and so a group of bright engineers put two and two together and declared that the age of software projects was dead. Sometimes the logic of engineers … Continue reading Waterfall 2.0
This week I have learned: the summer can come to an end quite spectacularly quickly my children are absolutely obsessed with dinosaurs a two-day working week really doesn't do itself justice Next week: first work proper with Leading Edge Forum.
