LINK: “The Bill Gates Line”
‘A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it’s a platform.’ Original:
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Dave Briggs
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LINK: “Ignore the hype over big tech. Its products are mostly useless”
The endless noise emanating from Silicon Valley essentially has two complementary elements. One is all about dreams so unlikely that they beggar belief: the idea that the Tesla CEO Elon Musk will one day set up a colony on Mars;…
LINK: “Why Local Government must share the driving to accelerate transformation benefits”
There is a huge opportunity for local authorities to share common digital service patterns for highly defined, commoditised services that are repeated across multiple organisations. For services like reporting missed bins, FOI requests and complaints for example, how fundamentally different…
Two pieces on low code
The low code debate seems to have really kicked off. Matt Skinner off of FutureGov blogs a critical piece: The low code platforms we’ve tried place a big emphasis on making the lives of developers simpler (or redundant). Unfortunately, we…
LINK: “And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet”
As a co-founder of Blogger and Twitter and, more recently, as the chief executive of the digital publishing platform Medium, Mr. Williams transformed the way millions of people publish and consume information online. But as his empire grew, he started…
LINK: “Fail by design: Banking′s legacy of dark code”
Is it modernize or die? Or modernize and die? For banks updating their computer systems with secure mobile features it can be both. Many run mainframes on legacy code that’s gone dark — no one understands it anymore. Original:
There are no digital silver bullets
In a fairly complex world, everyone yearns for a simple solution. The one thing they should do to make things better. The single solution to all their problems. Digital transformation is no different, and many of the marketers working in…
LINK: “From service design to systems change”
Systems analysis at the ‘front end’ of service design can help us to better understand complex social problems and identify opportunities to respond more effectively and profoundly. Equally, systems thinking provides tools and mindsets to understand the power structures and…
LINK: “Out of the shadows [on low code in local gov]”
At Adur & Worthing, our use of low code is core to our service design programme and the main tool used by our central digital team in change projects. We don’t go this way every time — we’re not purists — but time and…
How low (code) can you go?
There’s an increasing amount of talk in digital circles about low code. These are systems for building systems: ways of using simple drag and drop interfaces to build out workflows and databases to deliver business processes. Some low code platforms…