I spent much of Sunday evening in A&E. Nothing serious - just the average sort of flesh wound you come to get used to when living with toddler siblings who've just worked out the basics of projectiles. The children's department was unusually busy, and so I had quite a few hours to look at the sign … Continue reading Change pain
Achievements this week included: - a great morning finding out about Storage as a Service... - ...and catching up with a couple of the old team from Imagination as a result - a great round table at the Winmark event - an interesting evening with @mbrit - some more writing for CIO - the first parts of research completed for … Continue reading Weeknote 189: My occuluses have rifted
I've just started reading a book about the Psychology of Pricing (The Psychology of Price: How to use price to increase demand, profit and customer satisfaction - a review to follow when I'm finished). It's opening gambits are quite pertinant to a conversation I had yesterday about how IT now finds itself in an open market. … Continue reading The psychology of pricing IT
As is so often the case it started with me being a smart-arse... This morning I presented to a select group of CIOs on the topic of consumerized innovation in the enterprise. How, in short words, do IT departments become the go-to people when others in their organisation want to try something new that either relies … Continue reading Consumer meets enterprise; enterprise wins
A few days ago the legend of tech investing Fred Wilson blogged about an observation of how followers on the SoundCloud service might be able to turn into a rough and ready basis for classifying artists on the service: ... for emerging artists, follower counts on the platform of choice for their media type might … Continue reading The value of followers
For some time now I've been arguing that modern trends in digital design seem to be putting aesthetics ahead of usability, with designers in a madcap dash to become flatter and more modernist than their peers. A couple of times in the past few days I've seen evidence of this on major media sites. The … Continue reading What’s going on with modern web design?
Brad Stone's The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon is a fascinating, kind of authorised, insight into the man behind today's biggest online retail brand. Reading it has taught me a few things: ***** from a one-time Amazon interviewee I never, ever want to work for Amazon (and from my fleeting experience with their … Continue reading Book review: The Everything Store
Achievements this week included: - getting both the boys back to health after da pox - a big data catch up with Rob at Cambridge - great conversation with Anne-Marie in France - the design of a Digital Customer Engagement Plan (more to follow) - another bit of blogging for CIO - and a … Continue reading Weeknote 188: Chickenpox
