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A short reflection on the year, and some thoughts on what I need to be doing better in this new year (and decade!). The last year has been pretty good, I think. It’s certainly gone by quickly. Work has been…
I’ve not posted one of these for three weeks, which perhaps is something I should apologise for – although I am hardly inundated with demands for one. The bonus is that in covering three weeks in one note, I actually…
Reflections Ah, LocalGovCamp. It went well, I think, despite (perhaps because of) the fact that I missed the social bit the night before due to a spot of, ah, gastric issues. This meant I turned up fresh as a daisy…
I may publish these on different days, but will always title them as the Friday of the week they cover. Reflections It’s LocalGovCamp this week, 10 years after the first. A rather different event than that one – it’s a…
Inspired by Annie, here goes. Format open to change as things progress. Reflections Mood has been a little low this week. Am getting over a cold – nothing lethal – which has left me a bit tired and meh. In…
I’m three months into my new job and that seems a good time to reflect on how things are going. I’ll save the meat of that for another post, because this one is about how I am working within my…
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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…
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…
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:
Write, plan, collaborate, and get organized. Notion is all you need — in one tool. Original:
…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:
…a set of questions to help get to the why, as well as the what, of digital transformation. Original:
…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…
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,…
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:
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,…
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…
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:
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…