Achievements this week included: - development of a new model to describe types of apps, and underlying business models - synopsis and structure for a talk I'll be giving at the IT Director's Forum in May... - ... and also one I'll be doing about Storytelling in January to some students - some view on … Continue reading Weeknote 80: to end the year
Another year whistles past, and so some reflections on another big year for me: The year I went to the darkside (1) I joined Microsoft back in April, after the majority of my career working in IT departments in various organisations in the UK. It's been a heck of a learning curve, but as we … Continue reading Yearnote 2011
Achievements this week included: - welcomed a new member to the leadership team - moved office - continued to plan for mid-year review - learned how to rob a bank Next week: some time to think.
Achievements this week included: - all family members returned safely home - a flying visit from one of our corporate cousins - mid-year review planning continued - making links to customer centricity across some of our upcoming initiatives - thinking about how marketplaces might change the developer relationship - good catch ups with @andrewdotcom (not … Continue reading Weeknote 78: back to normal (whatever normal is)
Purely out of curiosity as to how the whole system works, this blog is now available to subscribe to on Kindle here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/mmitii-Matt-Ballantines-Blog/dp/B006J6NJ3Y/ 99p per month? Not sure I would... But if anyone does then it'll all go to charity.
I've just started reading Stephen Denning's book Radical Management, and I'm starting to see a series of things that I've been thinking about in the past few months join up, namely:to be truly motivated, people need things of a higher level than just financial "compensation"customer-, or consumer-, or client- centricity is at the heart of what … Continue reading Customer centricity
We are entering the season of reviews of the year past, and predictions for the year ahead. Mostly, I guess, this is a media agenda driven by the fact that everyone is on holiday (at least in the UK) for most of the second half of December, and review/prediction pieces are things that can be … Continue reading Thinking about the future
This week's weeknote takes a slightly different form as I write it from an isolation room in the children's ward at Kingston Hospital. Our youngest son Milo is asleep on my chest as he gets over a bout of bronchiolitus, a viral infection of the narrow airways of the lungs. He's on the mend, but … Continue reading Weeknote 77 – on healthcare
Over the past couple of years, I have heard some consistent themes for objecting to Cloud services that are focused on a perception of the loss of control* of data that is somehow inherent in placing a business service into (particularly) Software as a Service. As a result, most SaaS providers have recognised that a … Continue reading Exit strategies in the Cloud
Achievements this week included: - a fascinating day at the CBI Conference - the beginning of the mid-year review process - stimulating conversations with various folk on a trip to town - a successful second run for the learning workshop - further dives into the world of developer motivations Next week: struggling to come to … Continue reading Weeknote 76 – hobnobbing with the captains of industry
