An interesting day aboard MS Aurora: A good reception to my session first thing, with a group of senior IT folk grappling with the challenges that consumerisation and raised expectations are having on managing technology in a corporate environment. There aren't any easy answers, but there certainly seemed to be appetite for change. Susan Greenfield … Continue reading ITDF Captain’s log 2: consumerisation, neuroscience and black swans
I'm spending the next few days with a few hundred IT Directors on a boat in the English channel, sharing thoughts and ideas at the IT Directors' Forum. I've realised that over the past year in my time at Microsoft I've put increasing focus into the world of consumer technology and software development in that … Continue reading ITDF Captain’s Log 1: all aboard
A couple of years ago, Wired editor Chris Anderson wrote a cover article entitled "The Web is Dead: Long Live the Internet". His argument at the time was that we were seeing a shift from Web development to App development, and that as such the Internet was becoming more a transport mechanism than a place … Continue reading Bye bye WWW?
Achievements this week included: - planning for how we think in terms of new industries, not just apps - a day at a windows 8 camp - a fascinating day thinking about the UK IT Skills Market Next week: 200 (mostly men) on a boat
I've been reading Mark Tungate's history of global advertising Ad Land over the past few weeks (reading books takes on a new time frame when you have toddlers). It's been an interesting background to the ad and marketing industry, and has given me a few surprises not least, how old most of the major ad agencies … Continue reading Art vs Science
From Twitter last week: @stevenackerman: Sainsbury's as a music retailer. Don't see that at all, but then again what do I know? http://t.co/zvtDXLhl @mattballantine: no doubt in late 1990s, "Apple as a music retailer" would have had a similar response... @stevenackerman: I really hope you're not comparing Apple and Sainsburys!! @mattballantine: I know, I know. Apple … Continue reading Pivots
Achievements this week included: - continuing the new year planning process - starting conversations within the team about our two-year vision - getting ITDF work wrapped up - plans for a Future of IT presentation at the Cloud World Forum - and another for UK housing associations in the autumn - finally got my hands … Continue reading Weeknote 97: mobilising
I was flicking through my wife's latest copy of Living Etc this morning having had my interested aroused by the fact that there was a photo that included a computer on the front cover. If you aren't aware of it, Living Etc portrays an idealised, minimalist, modernist world of European furniture and houses where there is … Continue reading A matter of style
My slide deck for the Spring 2012 IT Directors' Forum: http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=itdfpresentationfinalmetro-13358830489337-phpapp01-120501094105-phpapp01&stripped_title=spring-itdf-presentation Scene Setting My LinkedIn page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattballantine Touch expectations: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/03/21/touch-expectations/ The battlelines of consumerisation: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2011/08/08/the-battlelines-of-consumerisation/ Green field thinking https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/01/26/a-green-field-it-function/ Positive reinforcement https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/02/13/motivating-through-games/ https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/02/20/positive-reinforcement-and-business-systems/ https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/02/14/skinner-the-art-of-motivation/ https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/02/22/theory-x-theory-y-and-the-strange-case-of-the-expenses-system/ Avoiding "stupider, faster" https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/03/27/avoiding-stupider-faster/ Providing a service https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2010/06/30/managing-the-client-experience/ https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2010/07/01/implementing-the-client-experience-model/ https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2010/07/14/lowering-expectations/ Fostering innovation https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/04/04/apis-everywhere/ https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/02/24/chief-playfulness-officer/ https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/01/24/when-is-an-it-strategy-a-business-strategy/
Achievements this week included:OK - a great day with our new boss Anand - beginnings of planning for the new financial year - kicking off my mission to get the whole UK DPE team living Windows 8 - plans for getting out to talk about Windows 8 with people who want to know (if you … Continue reading Weeknote 96: New beginnings
