An online notebook
A key role for any CDO in an organisation is looking for, and creating, alignment. The obvious one in the digital sphere is looking for alignment between the organisation’s preferred outcomes, and the needs of the people who use its services or products. Take channel shift as a fairly obvious example. The outcomes that a … Keep reading
I don’t want to call them resolutions – doing so means failure if they don’t come off. However, there are a few things that I hope will happen in the next twelve months. 1. Focus more on writing (or, creating and communicating) When it comes down to it, the thing I most love doing is … Keep reading
Here are a few of the things I’ve really enjoyed on the internet in the last 12 months. Some new, some not so new. Hope you find something useful in them! Mobile apps Nuzzel – this does a great job of surfacing all the content that your connections are sharing on social media, with the … Keep reading
After a brief hiatus, here’s another post on the idea of the shared chief digital officer. The others are here. So, what does a shared CDO look and sound like? Firstly, perhaps it’s a good idea to say what the shared CDO is not – and that is just a rebranded CIO, or chief information … Keep reading
I’ve just finished a rather excellent book, The Innovators by Walter Isaacson. It takes a wonderfully long term view of digital – starting with Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace and ending with Larry and Sergei in more recent times. I thoroughly recommend it. At the end is a magnificent concluding chapter, identifying the lessons that … Keep reading