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LINK: “What’s happening with the service standard?”
We first talked about updating the service standard around a year ago. Since then, we’ve talked to hundreds of people in central and local government. It’s still a work in progress, but we think we’re getting close to a final…
LINK: “Salesforce adds low-code tools so everyone can automate their CRM workflow”
Probably the most important aspect of the new tools announced today is that they are based on the Lightning Design System, and so form part of the entire landscape of tools used to build Salesforce CRM applications. In earlier generations…
LINK: “People are not resources”
Resource. If you stop and think about it, it’s a terrible way to speak about people. A resource is something you take and use. Applied to people, it carries dismissive and devaluing undertones. Original:
LINK: “Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.”
Write, plan, collaborate, and get organized. Notion is all you need — in one tool. Original:
LINK: “The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995”
…the world’s oldest blockchain predates Bitcoin by 13 years and it’s been hiding in plain sight, printed weekly in the classified section of one of the world’s most widely circulated newspapers: The New York Times. Original:
LINK: “How to make conscious decisions about digital transformation”
…a set of questions to help get to the why, as well as the what, of digital transformation. Original:
LINK: “The Importance of Product Management in Government”
…the approach taken to build and deliver digital products needs to evolve to take advantage of modern software development methods including agile iterative development, human centered design, and continuous delivery. Despite fancy design labs and alleged “digital transformation” capabilities, most…
LINK: “Tesla, software and disruption”
When Nokia people looked at the first iPhone, they saw a not-great phone with some cool features that they were going to build too, being produced at a small fraction of the volumes they were selling. They shrugged. “No 3G,…
LINK: “Apple, Sui Generis”
Wall Street still doesn’t trust Apple’s future. The company is seen as an anomaly, it shuns accepted ways of doing business and defies categorization. Perhaps the categories are wrong. Original:
New podcast interview on councils and digital transformation
I was interviewed by Vicky Sargent again for her Interesting Times podcast. We talk about digital transformation in local governments, focusing on Adur & Worthing Councils and Hackney Council. You can listen to the podcast, and subscribe to future episodes,…
LINK: “Slack must use cash hoard to find new ways to keep competition at bay”
Slack’s success has always been a bit surprising because it’s facing off against giants like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Cisco, Salesforce and many others, all gunning for this upstart’s market. In fact, Microsoft is giving Teams away for free to Office…
LINK: “Not a technical founder? This is how you build a tech company”
If your aim is to build a company that leverages technology to disrupt and dismantle some archaic experience but you don’t have those skills, then there are 3 things to keep in mind Original:
LINK: “The Future of Software Is No Code”
Today, companies like Quick Base, Mendix, and Zudy are pioneering a similar movement, attempting to transform code into visual interfaces. Much like in the shift from assembly code to FORTRAN, the underlying code is still there, but it can be…
LINK: “Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office(less) politics”
I wanted to seek out the experience of these companies and ask: does remote work propagate, mitigate, or change the experience of office politics? What tactics are startups using to combat office politics, and are any of them effective? Original:…
LINK: “Technology innovation in government survey”
The objective of the survey was to understand current activity across government in what might be termed new or emerging technologies that are related to digital or information technologies. Loosely defined, these are new technologies that do not currently have…
LINK: “All change is system change”
All change is system change — to say otherwise is to ignore a fundamental truth about organisations being living breathing human systems. Original:
LINK: “Reuse: a Recipe for Disaster”
Authoritative, yet simplistic assertions about reuse routinely bypass past experience of just how much work it takes to make something reusable. Original:
Just what is a digital operating model?
This was originally published as the lead article in my weekly email newsletter. If you’d like to get more of this sort of thing on a regular basis, sign up! I’m sure folk get bored of people like me banging on…
LINK: “Full stack decision making”
I know that many organisations are still designed around that hierarchy but if your goal is to end up with an organisation that is less silo’d at the same time as being more collaborative, adaptive and flexible it seems sensible…