My head’s SPINning with storytelling acronyms
Sam Sethi’s podcast A few days ago I was the latest victim on Sam Sethi’s Marlow FM 97.5 radio show and podcast – Sam Talks Technology (and there’s a Facebook group here). Sam and I go way back to the start of the London social media scene in the mid 2000s and it was a […]
Sig taught me about Barely Repeatable Processes and how work flows
Earlier this month we lost a friend and the world lost a super-smart, clear thinker and business innovator. Our friend Sigurd Rinde, business partner, fellow Enterprise Irregular and founder of Thingamy, died peacefully at home with his family on 9th May 2019. This post isn’t intended to be a eulogy or an obituary, but a […]
CIO Transformation Live gets Disruptive in Manchester
You may know that I’ve been a regular contributor to Trafford Associates CIO events over the last couple of years. I chaired and opened their CIO Transformation Live conference near Silverstone on March 20th this year, and with Andy McLean and the team from Disruptive.Live we amplified the event on the day by live streaming […]
12 things to ask yourself to make your presentation a success!
As a blogger, influencer on certain topics, and a Deputy Chair of the Cloud Industry Forum I regularly get asked to do presentations, and I regularly fall in to bad habits and forget some of the brilliant lessons I’ve learned over the years. In the last few weeks I’ve presented on digital transformation at a […]
London was part of the largest Legal Hackathon ever
It’s been just over a week since the London stream of the Global Legal Hackathon, and those of us who were involved are still feeling the buzz. Here’s a full report of what went on. This was round one of a process which found a London winner to go forward with 39 other city winners […]
5 reasons why 2007 was a Tipping Point (and a Turning Point) in our Digital Journey
Both really. 2007 was pivotal. A big year in our digital history. It was also the year “An Inconvenient Truth” won the Oscar for best documentary, and Al Gore told us we only had 10 years to save the planet. It was the year my literary hero Kurt Vonnegut died. The Police and the Spice […]
Of organizational Operating Systems, Frameworks and Flows
The Paris edition of the Enterprise Digital Summit is coming together for next month. Bjoern posted recently on the conference’s key themes with some great links to ideas around platforms, the elastic enterprise and machine learning, but he also talks about the company’s operating model and operating system, and that triggered some thoughts around terminology […]
“Are you saying the map’s wrong?” – “Oh dear, yes!” – an example of Liminal Thinking
Earlier this week I met with Dave Gray and he gave me an advance copy of his new book, and then I went to his talk at Postshift on Wednesday night. He talked Liminal Thinking, so what is that? You might know that I am a huge fan of The West Wing (and Aaron Sorkin’s […]
Henley Business School’s free Digital Leadership course
In 2015 Digital Transformation was the hot and hyped topic, with that “d” word used and misused more than in any other year since Negroponte and Tapscott helped us start talking around it in 1995. Heading in to 2016, more than ever, we need a new kind of digital literacy at all levels in our […]
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 […]
