Yesterday, for the second year running, I was lucky to be able to attend the annual CBI Conference at the Grosvenor House Hotel as a guest of Harvey Nash. It's a curious affair, a million miles away from the sorts of events I more usually attend these days, but gives me my annual excuse to … Continue reading CBI Conference 2012
For many years, IT has been talking about "the business"; how we need to understand "the business", to achieve alignment with "the business", to be able to speak the language of "the business". In conversation yesterday I had another one of those lightbulb moments: we've been speaking about "the business" as some homogenised whole when, … Continue reading “the business”
Achievements this week included: - good catch ups with former colleagues from the BBC and Imagination - interesting connections made with our Windows, Consulting and Partner businesses - a visit at last to http://www.modernjago.co.uk/ - some thinking around how gaming, content and apps align - and a successful evening's presenting at the wonderful http://www.metaphwoar.org/ Next … Continue reading Weeknote 123: metaphwoarically speaking
OK people. A random Children in Need idea for you. TwitterTrumps... your chance to be part of a unique, one-off set of trump game cards, with your name, face and details on them something like the illustration above (thanks to Rob Waller for the mock up!). If you want to be part of this, then … Continue reading TwitterTrumps
Following on from a bit of a test run at the Mindshare Huddle event last week, I'm organising a series of workshops based around the When to App model. If you are thinking about developing apps for your company, or for clients, the When to App model will help you to shape innovative ideas that … Continue reading “When to app” workshops
There is an article in the most recent edition of The Economist that looks at the fraught relationship that exists between newspapers and Google. The short version is that newspaper publishers across the globe are looking to get compensation for their work appearing on, in particular, Google's news aggregation services. Being The Economist it then … Continue reading The death of the pyramid principle?
Achievements this week included: - great meetings with Lawrence @LogistikGroup about some sessions at Modern Jago next month - a successful session at the #mshuddle event at Mindshare - a great fun evening as a partner of The Partners talking analogously - and some spit and polish on forthcoming presentations Next week: catching up with colleagues old to … Continue reading Weeknote 122: testing ground
Yesterday I found out the news about Bradley Wiggins' road accident from The Sun newspaper. It's not a publication that I bought - but at Waterloo Station in London there are large digital display screens that at the moment have the latest headlines from The Sun newspaper. Except, of course, because it's live and it's digital, … Continue reading What is a… newspaper?
I found myself launching into a bit of a rant on Twitter yesterday. I fear this might become an increasing problem as I get older. The thing that set me off this time was an advertising billboard on an empty building near the Reading campus where I work proclaiming "flexible office solutions". There are two … Continue reading The problems with “solutions”
I was presenting at an event a few weeks back alongside someone whose business is focused on advising people about media intellectual property rights, particularly in the film sector. She gave an interesting analysis that the traditional Hollywood model of "release windows". It used to be the case that the sheer cost of duplication of … Continue reading What is a… Cinema?
