This week I have learned: every time, just every time I think that my support is waning something happens that reminds me once again why I'm a Watford fan. we continue to discover new technologies that it's hoped will supersede the need to change behaviours as a separate activity. They're so alluring. I should read … Continue reading Weeknote 373: four one
About a decade ago, when I was heading up technology for the global marketing agency Imagination, we started to explore the idea of what would become known as Bring Your Own Device. We were thinking more radically than was ever likely to actually happen - staff given a Hardware allowance in the way that many … Continue reading Bring Your Own Software
I heard a terribly depressing thing from one of my clients yesterday: We don't have time for the luxury of play It's a sentiment that I hear in one way or another from many of the organisations with which I work. That the Calvinist ethic of hard work has lead to a focus on efficiency … Continue reading Making time for play
This week I have learned: it's sod's law when faced with a crazy busy week I get my first actual cold of the season. warm feedback from unexpected quarters out of the blue - what's not to like? I'm seriously thinking about a new tier of client charging for when work inhabits my dreams. If … Continue reading Weeknote 372: from port to port
This is something of a work in progress, but is a reasonable summary of the work I've been doing in recent years looking at collaboration, collaboration technology. (Latest version here: Collaboration Cheat Sheet)
This week I have learned: - there is much to be said for this weeknoting lark. A number of people around me seen to be using it as a gateway into working out loud. - there is a fine line between working out loud and rampant self-publicity - Tim Berners-Lee followed in his mother's footsteps … Continue reading Weeknote 371: press start
What time frames does the organisation in which you work operate on? There's the year - financial and calendar (sometimes syncrhonized, but that generally makes for a crap Christmas). There's your "product" cycle - that could be weeks if you are software company, months in fashion, years in automotive or pharma, decades in pensions or … Continue reading Conflicting cycles
This week I have learned: structured procurement exercises are obviously fantastic things (a 20% chance of me saying that). it was long time I went from "we" to "I" in how I represented myself and stamp. The brochure site now duly updated. WB-40's move into WhatsApp seems to be paying dividends. Join the conversation at http://bit.ly/WB40WhatsApp I … Continue reading Weeknote 370: and the winner is…
I spend my time flitting from organisation to organisation, across many different sectors, and looking at often quite different challenges. Technology is usually the linking thread, although not always. A question that I'm not hearing being asked in a structured way in organisations today is "Which approach should we be taking?". What instead seems to … Continue reading Which path to take?
“Tell me the future!” It’s a common request. We seem almost hard-wired to seek out prophets and sages, oracles and seers. No wonder then that so many iterations of software product have laid claim to the names of the fortune tellers of the past. Data-driven decision making is an exercise in charting trendlines. The experience … Continue reading The future CIO
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