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I published a post today on the Department of Health’s Digital Health blog about the work I am doing there building digital capability across the organisation Here’s a quick snippet: To my mind there needs to be a three pronged…
I’ve just come across this post from Owen Barder, from back in 2012, providing his tips on managing email a bit more effectively. Owen has a triage system for email which is based on four D’s: Deal with it –…
Am currently reading, and very much enjoying Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator. It’s basically lots of interviews with founders of companies that were once startups about what life was like in the early days. The book’s blurb sells it…
I like to use plain text when I can. Plain text is just text without any formatting, which you edit with an app called a text editor, like Notepad on Windows or TextWrangler on a Mac. It’s pretty much a…
Digital tools provide great ways to collaborate online. Whether working with a smallish team to co-create a document, or engaging the wisdom of the crowd to build a list of ideas, the net allows us to work with people at…
I probably think about this sort of thing far more than I should – after all, doesn’t everyone just use Word? – but I like playing with different tools for writing. After all, for me, typing words into a computer…
Five for Friday is WorkSmart’s weekly roundup of interesting stuff from the week’s reading. Dancing Giants: How Cisco Innovates How to write an internal communication strategy How To Convince Your Boss To Try New Things Tips for starting a podcast…
I spend a lot of my time at the moment talking about digital capability. To my mind, this means the ability of people throughout an organisation to make the most of the opportunities offered by digital technology. Capability is less…
Some interesting developments from Dropbox – everyone’s (well, most people’s) favourite cloud storage/backup/sharing tool. Firstly, a new app called Carousel, which is a photo gallery app. According to the blurb, it …combines the photos in your Dropbox with the photos…
A quick post as I am just back from a short break with the family and didn’t have anything lined up to publish today! Altimeter Group have just published a really interesting report called Digital Transformation: Why and How Companies are…