CIO Priority 5: Move to Platform as a Service In my mind PaaS is the future of software development. From the reality of technology infrastructure today (servers, disks, disk space quotas and so on even if all virtualized in the world of IaaS) to a world that is server-less, where coffee can Ryan and run … Continue reading CIO Priorities 5: PaaS
CIO Priority 4: Move to Software as a Service. Software as a Service, where business software is provided over the public internet rather than from servers that sit in a private data centre somewhere has actually been around for quite a long time now. The first big product, the CRM system SalesForce started to get … Continue reading CIO Priorities 4: SaaS
This week I have learned: The continuing excitement of launching an actual physical product. Schiphol airport have removed the need for passengers to take laptops and liquids out of bags at security. It makes a huge positive difference to how faffy the whole process can be. The fundamentals of how a dentist practice is managed. … Continue reading Weeknote 390: new client klaxon
CIO Priority 3: Creating platforms and services that can scale to meet internet-scale demand. The Internet is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down to the bottom of your inbox, but that's just peanuts to the Internet.* In comparison to … Continue reading CIO Priorities 3: Internet Scale
CIO Priority 2: Digitization of our business's products and services. The digitization (or digitalization) agenda continues to be high on the agenda for many CIOs, over two decades since "digital" became a thing that businesses needed to worry about. Quite what it means in any particular context can be broad and varied. To illustrate the … Continue reading CIO Priorities 2: Digitization
I've recently launched Stamp London's first physical product - a set of playing cards called CIO Priorities. You can find out more about them here, and order a set for yourself here (or simply download the PDF and print them out). Over the next few weeks I'm going to run through each of the cards … Continue reading CIO Priorities 1: Industry context
This week I have learned: the Dutch show how it is perfectly possibly for an entire nation to cycle without the aggressive use of Lycra. Next week: kick offs and rekindling The week in photos:
This week I have learned: that I might have booked in too many things this week when it was only four days of working long. creating products is fun. I need to discover more about graph database technologies. Next week: Gouda The week in pictures:
It's a year of anniversaries of five. This month see five years of working under the banner of Stamp. This October will mark five squared years of me in full time work. When I ventured into the world of office work in the autumn of 1993 it was a very different place to that that … Continue reading Has nobody noticed yet?
I got a reminder via LinkedIn this morning that it's now five years since I launched upon this madcap free-range experiment that I call Stamp. Coincidentally it would have been my grandmother's 100th birthday yesterday, and 2013 would have been granddad's centenary. Living to 100 was something that very few of their generation could have … Continue reading Five years
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