Yesterday and today I'm part of a discussion panel organised by Dimension Data looking at the move of telephony into the Cloud. The discussions, part of the UCExpo event, find me alongside representatives from some of the big telecoms vendors. It's been an interesting experience so far, and it strikes me that telephony is running … Continue reading Phones in the Cloud
For some time now I've been toying with the idea of writing a recipe book. Not recipes for food, but instead for how to manage and lead in organisations in the early 21st; a time where technology is changing, to a lesser or greater extent, how we communicate, and how we operate. Mostly this is … Continue reading 21st Century Management recipe cards
Things I have learned this week: - a roomful of project managers will inevitably want everything run as a project - the "out of the box" experience of a new PC is, quite frankly, as shit and confusing as it ever has been - ask a room of senior working people how many have been … Continue reading Weeknote 240: pratfalls
Seems like a fairly innocuous question, doesn't it? Surely a piece of information that HR can just roll of the tips of their tongues? Well, in the shifting sands of today's virtual organisations, it's not as easy to answer "how many people work for us?" as it used to be. You have employees. You have … Continue reading How many people work for us?
A frequent refrain in UK election coverage at the moment is that this is the UK's first "Social Media" election. The truth is that five years is an awfully long time in media and technology these days, and the dynamics of communications for this year's ballot are vastly different to the last... The Social Media … Continue reading The (insert Tech buzzword) Election
The problem with Legacy IT as a metaphor is quite simple: to the whole rest of the world, a legacy is a good thing. If you're trying to get people to see something as bad, it's really, really important not to hamper your mission by naming it after something good. We might as well call … Continue reading Crap Tech Metaphors: 14 Legacy IT
Last week was spent with my family, getting away from it in the wonderful isolation of the New Forest in Dorset. Feeding chickens and pigs, avoiding over-curious ponies, getting mild sunburn... And generally not thinking that much about work. One thread that did come to mind, however, was how three (or four, depending on your views … Continue reading “I don’t know”
Next week: normal service is resumed
What I have learned this week: - fire coming from the road is generally a bad sign - there's a great deal to be said for working in partnership Next week: an Easter break
My digital life has been increasingly moving to the cloud over the past six years. Since 2009 my use of online services to store data has steadily increased, and then my shift to using Chromebook for my main device in 2013 accelerated that shift. I've even got to the stage now where my "download" folder … Continue reading Clouds/Smoke
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