Achievements this week included: - survived MGX Next week: back to normality
News emerged last week that the newly incorporated reincarnation of the Glasgow football club Rangers would be starting the new season in the fourth flight of the Scottish football league system. If you are not aware of the background, Rangers (one of the two big clubs that play north of the border) went into administration … Continue reading The curious case of Scottish Football
Achievements this week included: - great meetings with Topic Logic, Imagination, @andrewdotcom, Em Stone, colleagues in A&O, and my old boss Tim - delivered the first Creativity workshop to colleagues - some innovative thinking about how the marketing influence work moves forward - progress on recruiting into the evangelism team Next week: the subtle, low-key … Continue reading Weeknote 107: in to motion
I heard on the Today Programme this morning that this afternoon will see a milestone in broadcasting history as the BBC World Service makes its last transmission from its headquarters in Bush House in advance of a move back to Broadcasting House. If you know me, you well know that the BBC has a very … Continue reading Bush House
One of the great things about my current job is it gives me the cause to go and have conversations with people that I probably wouldn't otherwise get to meet. A couple of weeks ago I took a trip up to Oxford to meet Baroness Susan Greenfield, an academic who specialises in the physiology of … Continue reading Privacy for the digital natives
I've written quite a bit in the past months about where the IT Management role within organisations might be headed in the next few years; the CIO abbreviation has been used by others to indicate a whole series of potential options, from the ominous "Career Is Over", through "Chief Innovation Officer" and beyond. In a … Continue reading Meta-IT
It seems to be a fairly well accepted wisdom these days that smartphones are generally used more for the smart rather than the phone bit, and that they to all intents and purposes should be regarded as pocket-based computers rather than the natural legacy of the work of Alexander Graham Bell. If I think about … Continue reading Form over function
OK - so before I go any further, I realise that I'm a lone voice in the wilderness. I fly in the face of accepted wisdom - that management is an activity based around control and measurement, and so if you can't measure you can't manage. But there have been three separate news stories this … Continue reading The minute you start to measure is the minute it starts to go wrong
Achievements this week included: - exciting conversations with folk from the world of branding... - ...and of media sales - ideas on how to "PR" the marketing world - a first cut of my new business objectives - getting some great "it changed someone's life" type feedback on a session I ran for our student … Continue reading Weeknote 106: a new (financial) year
The journey to Microsoft's Reading campus that I took back in the early months of 2011 for one of the rounds of interviews I had before joining the organisation was one of the most stressful trips I have ever made. It wasn't the prospect of three, one-hour interviews back-to-back that worried me (let's be honest, … Continue reading Liberated
