Today's coffee companion works in Local Government. We talked about: settling in to new roles the challenges of older workforces big suppliers, and the pros and cons of big contracts data integration coming second raising service/user-centred design capabilities working locally 100 Coffees is an experiment in being intentionally unintentional. If you'd like to meet up … Continue reading 121st of 100
This week I have learned: the only time I'm happier than when I am making things is when I am helping people to use the things I've made. Another experiment this week which was a further exploration into how we get better at managing the stuff that goes around our core work with clients. It … Continue reading Weeknote 652 – Craft knife
Today's coffee companion searches for executives... We talked about: how the strangely unseasonal weather is particularly disconcerting when evening comes in early and it gets cold quickly finding a new path to cycle through Battersea the rise of "compensation" and the echoes of the Protestant Work Ethic the importance of semiotics and semantics how few … Continue reading 120th of 100
Yesterday's coffee companion is a systems thinker. We talked about: how doing a Master's degree has realigned his expectations of work and life the allure of the silver bullet model how too many systems thinkers don't apply it to themselves emoji cards graphic equalisers relocating to the sea and starting a shop going beyond reflection … Continue reading 119th of 100
This week I have learned: Sparta Prague are my latest new football team. A splendid night spent at their stadium watching them beat Viktoria Plzen in a top-of-the table clash. Since their adoption as my latest new football team, Sparta lost their Europa League game. The fickleness of football. I do like central Europe. However, … Continue reading Weeknote 651: European football
Today's coffee companion helps other businesses be better. We talked about: how contracts and standard Ts&Cs are struggling to catch up with the way in which software and consulting now operates, especially when it comes to IT the 3D chess of working out the potential impacts of standard Ts&Cs how ultimately it all comes down … Continue reading 118th of 100
Today's second coffee companion is a former CEO. We talked about: the complexity of delivering services as a housing association the various silos that exist within HAs and the resulting system silos that occur Clocks and Clouds Mayonnaise and airliners The scalability of transactions How interactions can't be scaled without turning them into transactions The … Continue reading 117th of 100
Today's first coffee companion is a colleague. We talked about: recent short breaks the dark history of 20th century Central Europe living in Germany the opportunity to work in another country and where we would and wouldn't work or live how a big telecoms company decided to try to build their own iPhone New York … Continue reading 116th of 100
This week I have learned: the joy from being able to guide a group of people through a day. But also the deep-rooted insecurity that comes with that - was it right, was it enough, did it have any impact? being able to make adaptations at the last minute is really important. Fluidity in timing, … Continue reading Weeknote 650: at scale
Today's coffee companion is an expert in cloud. We talked about... our journeys over the time since we first met in the early 2010s the experience of working with tech investors due diligence of technology where the smart money is going when established companies go all in on known solutions to unknown problems how Gen … Continue reading 115th of 100
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