The announcement yesterday that Google and PWC are to join forces to deliver the Google for Work services delivers another plank in a strategy that seems to be turning Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma on its head. In Christensen's oft-cited model, technology providers are often unable to respond to competitive threats because of the need to … Continue reading The inverted dilemma
London has two major orbital roads - the North and South Circular roads that entrap the centre of the city, and the M25 the 100+mile behemoth that boundaries Greater London. To be inside or outside of the M25 these days is the statement of how London you really are. In my childhood I vaguely remember … Continue reading The M25 of Tech
Things I have learned this week: - sometimes the common cold ain't so common - the best form of recommendation is a peer recommendation - I'm happiest when sharing ideas Next week: half term (for some)
A few days ago I saw a blog post where someone was expressing their dissatisfaction with the business networking site LinkedIn. I’ve come to one conclusion – LinkedIn is worthless to me. Alright, so blunt cynicism aside, I’ve not found very many benefits from the site. It seems like you connect with people who barely … Continue reading Writing a novel
I've been thinking about the ways in which media industries (and others) have been disrupted by the world of digital, and am playing around with the idea of four key stages: Pre-digital The world where things existed in analogue and physical form. Think record shops and vinyl and cassettes. Think bookshops and libraries. Think news agents and … Continue reading Four stages of digital disruption
Things I have learned this week: - some industries and professions seem to live up to all of the stereotypes - but assumptions on basis of age are risky - facilitating is harder to justify than delivering (the challenge of owning outcomes) - it takes 12 months + to build up momentum as a free … Continue reading Weeknote 217: Hung Over
Employee engagement is big business. Entire consulting industries are devoted to measuring and tracking the levels of engagement that are displayed by a company's staff, and implementing programmes of work to try to nudge the scores upwards. An engaged workforce is a productive workforce, so the correlations tell us. But correlations and causality are two … Continue reading Employer engagement
In a few conversations in recent days I've been noticing how there is often an assumptive merging of two (for me) distinct concepts - millennials and digital natives. I see myself as a digital native. Although I can kind of remember a time without computers around me, I struggle to. I taught myself to program … Continue reading Millennial state of mind
Work with one of my clients at the moment is focused on the use and adoption of collaborative tools - social networks within the organisation. This is a path down which I have travelled a number of times over the years, but I'm realising this time around that something is now fundamentally different. Before, questions … Continue reading What’s stopping you?
I've been asked by a client to pull together a session looking at the future of career paths and career planning towards the end of the year. It's an interesting assignment, and a theme in which I've made fairly significant experimental investments in the past few years (often to my wife's considerable consternation). Undoubtedly "working … Continue reading The future of career paths
