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I must have been around 13 when I had my first pizza, courtesy of my neighbours, a warm and friendly Sephardic Jewish family; Flower Silliman, the mother of the family, was, and continues to be, an incredible cook; I took the family to India for a reunion last year, and we had Christmas lunch (!) … Continue reading “Thinking about pizza and private clouds”

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”