a blog about information
At school and at university, I was reminded by teachers not to allow the knowledge I’d accumulated to constrain unduly my thinking about the future. There was something liberating about the mere process of trying to understand that knowledge could be considered a constraint, a liberation that continued throughout my life, evinced at different times … Continue reading “Thinking about streams of information at work”
Over a decade ago, after a couple of years as Deputy CIO, I was appointed Global CIO of Dresdner Kleinwort in May 2001. Times were hard, and my brief was harder still: to reduce technology capital expenditure and operating expenses by 50% within eighteen months, while providing “leadership, stability and continuity” to the organisation. At … Continue reading “Musing about the cloud and enterprise cost allocation”
All projects involve change, an outcome of some sort that can be measured as a difference between the initial state and the end state of something. All change involves risk. At a level of abstraction, project management may be seen as the means by which something is progressed from initial state to end state while … Continue reading “Thinking about change”
I’ve been wanting to write this post for some months now, ever since I gave a talk on gamification in the enterprise in New York sometime in June. You can see the video of the talk here. Yet I didn’t write it. Because I didn’t particularly want to add to the hype, or for that … Continue reading “Musing gently about the enterprise and gamification”
…. And it’s only the giving/that makes you/what you are Jethro Tull, Wond’ring Aloud (Ian Anderson). From the album Aqualung [Note: this is a continuation from my post a couple of days ago, linked to here. I began that post with the first line of the song, it is only fitting that I begin this … Continue reading “More Wond’ring Aloud”