Category Management Development
The term ‘The Age of’ is used to describe a sweeping change where the difference brought about by a catalyst is noticeable and for a period of time the change applied becomes the definition of an evolution. At a recent… Read More
A short blog piece first published on www.cio.co.uk in April 2015. The poor guys in editorial at CIO magazine must have had enough of me pushing social media at them over the last year as a topic that CIOs need… Read More
Recently at the IT Service Management 2014 conference I got into a debate via social media about the need for a Chief Digital Officer. The presentation was on cloud computing and service management and the presenter suggested that an organisation… Read More
A CIO has to make big decisions every single day. Operational decisions about keeping the ‘lights on’ for major systems, strategic decisions about the delivery of Business Intelligence in 2016 and resource decisions about just who can deliver what elements… Read More
It has been great preparing for this years ISF Congress for a number of reasons, not least of which has been looking again at the Datatopia work we did last year and considering the links to the work completed by… Read More
It is nearly three years since I went to a football game, but a couple of weekends ago I made it back. Some would argue that Oakwell is perhaps not the epitome of the great game, its not quite grass… Read More
A headline caught my eye in a magazine in a hotel bar in Brussels, ‘ Solutions take second place to the story…’ This headline prompted me and another person from the UK to reach for the magazine and want to… Read More
Was it an insult I thought, being congratulated for not being technical? It felt like an insult! Of course it wasn’t but it got me thinking about what it means to be leading a technology team in a large organisation… Read More
The butcher, the baker and the candlestick-maker – or in this case, the educator, the shop owner, the mechanic and the know-it-all – were in discussion at the recent UK CIO 100 event. (As an aside no one has worked… Read More
Where Does Improvement Begin? In February 2014, I was at the Lean Healthcare Awards, presenting as a finalist in the Lean Champion category when I was asked how I had started on my improvement journey? I suddenly remembered a chance… Read More