One of the most valuable sources of help that I had in the work I delivered around collaboration in my time at Imagination was from a student studying for his MSc in Human Computer Interaction from UCL. I should declare an interest - the chap running the module that that student was taking is someone … Continue reading A call for volunteers
Achievements this week included: - progressing on a technical audience contact strategy (yeah - I know. But it means something to me!) - pulled together a little workshop for colleagues about learning models - built up some more contacts in the recruitment world to help on work connected to the Britain Works initiative - got … Continue reading Weeknote 74: learning the pitfalls of the scorecard
Be warned. There follows a completely unfair rant. The technology industry is uniformly rubbish at marketing. There. Said it. (And Apple aren't a technology company - they make consumer goods and provide consumer services - before you ask). Why are we rubbish? Well, I think it's because we are so logical about things. Logical in … Continue reading The woes of tech marketing
Achievements this week included: - good time to think with my management team colleagues - closure of sorts on a couple of ongoing management issues - draft spec for a new role I hope to recruit in the near future - some interesting blogging, including getting comments from an editor from an established industry journal … Continue reading Weeknote 73: in which I reassessed Drive
I've been thinking about how I can review some of my old blog content in a systematic manner recently, and as a result have been having a trawl through old blog posts (more on all of that later). However, last night I was surprised by the fact that it is now nearly two years since … Continue reading News consumption
The London Conference on Cyberspace and associated commentary , along with seeing "ethical hacker" Jason Hart speak last week has got me thinking about what seems to be the central paradox of information security: The problem with information security isn't the information, nor the system, but the people using them. But the more that you … Continue reading The security paradox
I was at an event in London on Thursday last week organised by recruiters Mortimer Spinks at which they unveiled the results of a survey of 650 people working in the technology industry in the UK. The results put some interesting new data into the mix around the ongoing debate about what motivates people, and technology people … Continue reading Motivators/demotivators
I've been watching occasional snippets from the CIO Summit event in London today via Twitter and find myself pining for the event (which I was able to attend last year). I applied this year, but because of my new found status as a "vendor", I was refused entry... This perfectly sums up the state of … Continue reading Vendor mistrust
Achievements this week included: - surviving my first Quarterly Business Review despite being stuck at home with family stomach bug - continuing to articulate and refine the consumer app model - great meetings with @matt to talk about nextrad.io... - ... @mrssimonking at the old gaff... - ... and Andy at The Guardian - and an interesting … Continue reading Weeknote 72: in which Symbian lives
I spent this evening at an event organised by Mortimer Spinks with a theme of open vs closed. They had three speakers... one a white hat hacker whose thrust seemed to be that passwords are an inherently rubbish form of security and therefore everything is probably "open", a chap from an online fashion retailer who … Continue reading Open vs closed
