Every six months I go for a review with the consultant who is supervising my medical treatment or some other specialist that he refers me to. In discussion I’m often asked whether some aspect of my life correlates with how well I am. For example does the weather affect me,...
This post in in honour of the How I Work series on Lifehacker that I really love to read Location: Lytham St Annes on the west coast of the UK Current Gig: Mainly workplace wervices strategy and optimisation One word that best describes how you work: Differently Current mobile devices:...
As reader’s of this blog know I’m in the most embryonic stages of writing a book, or two, so I’ve been considering the process. This has got me thinking about ideas in general and how much effort it takes to realise them. I have many ideas that I’ve been working...
One of the strategies that I adopted to help me recover my health was to take one week a month away from the day to day pressures of work. The plan was that I would still work, but I would withdraw from meetings, email and other distractions. Instead I would...
I’ve always been a huge advocate of the need for enterprises to focus on Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) before they even consider enterprise knowledge management. Enterprise Knowledge Management just being a thin skim of services that enable discovery of information that’s promoted from PKM. That promotion can be very light...
I expected to see a new Microsoft start to reveal itself at the build conference last week and I wasn’t disappointed. Steve Ballmer has handed Satya Nadella a real gift, by allowing him to preside over the unveiling that Steve must have been orchestrating for years. The new Microsoft is...
Windows 8.1 Update tidied up some of the issues that we all have with the intrusive start experience that windows 8 imposed on us and made WinRT applications slightly more acceptable to Windows Desktop users. Windows 9 needs to do a lot to please me though. I’m looking for some...
I recently read an interesting blog post from Gartner summarising the results of a study that they undertook into why projects fail. The results aligned nicely with my own views: Our recent Gartner Research Circle survey asked clients about project failures. No respondent chose “technical skills” as the cause of...
This post expands on an earlier post that introduces the concept of Common Ground Collaboration is a key competency for today’s enterprises and yet despite the fact that the Internet is awash with a myriad of different collaboration solutions many teams still struggle to be effective and most projects continue...
The Creating passionate users blog has a great post on the need to challenge assumptions, so many times I come across assumptions that everyone knows are invalid, but are used because people assume they isolate a project from risk. Of course all they really do is defer the risk. Personally...