Global Legal Hackathon in London this weekend – an update
What happens when you get a bunch of lawyers, coders, designers, consultants and marketing types with their laptops and cloud platforms together over a weekend? Well, we think it will turn in to something special! Just over 3 weeks ago Agile Elephant volunteered, along with Cambridge Strategy Group and Pinsent Masons to host the London stream the Global Legal […]
What is Design Thinking?
Is Design Thinking important? We think it is – it’s one of our 8 building blocks for digital transformation. But what is it, and why? In the run up to the Global Legal Hackathon, we thought we’d distil our workshop slides and ideas on the topic in to this blog post to explain it. Let’s […]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on how our education systems should prepare for the next generation of problems
Courtesy of my satellite TV service I’ve just been watching Google CEO-Youth Connect live on Indian news channel Times Now. Google CEO Sundar Pichai was addressing students at the Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University. In front of a large audience including teachers and students from local schools, Harsha Bhogle was moderating a stream […]
CeBIT SBA keynote – Strategic Building Blocks for your Digital Transformation Strategy
As my last post explained, I was privileged to do the opening keynote, substituting for Dion Hinchcliffe, at this week’s Social Business Arena at CeBIT 2015. The theme of the show was social as the enabler for digital transformation. I expanded on a session I did at the Enterprise 2.0 Paris Summit with some additional […]
Unlearn or Challenge?
What’s the diff? David Heinemeir Hansson of 37signals and Ruby on Rails fame spoke at Stanford the other day – Unlearn your MBA! Good concept of course, provocative title for a talk for business students, and old stuff is old…
Let Go and Let Talent
What is the most important leadership competency for the successful enterprise of the future? According to a new study by IBM’s Institute for Business Value, CEO’s point to creativity as the engine for future growth.
Creative leaders are key to driving the kind of change large organizations require to wrestle with global complexity and information overload. Open […]
Shift Happens! revisited
Way back in August 2006 a teacher called Karl Fisch at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado, USA created an 8 minute PowerPoint presentation with some music. It aimed to highlight the rate of change of the world we live in, and remixed content from David Warlick, Thomas Friedman, Ian Jukes, Ray Kurzweil and others. […]
Doing it for less…
Years ago it was all about how much, how big and how bright your “thing” was and money was flowing out of every IT shop in the world – it was also during this time that I was constantly looking at Open Source and any and every solution I could find to do my job […]
