Author Archives: philjackman
Elephants revisited
The only obvious elephant in the room was the one in the Dali picture, the one with the naked woman, tigers and a pomegranate (and an elephant). It is a picture that is filled with religious guilt, or am I … Continue reading
Technical offshoring
Is offshoring dead? Has our belief in the ability to drive down costs by exporting work to cheaper economies started to wain? I am certainly aware of companies who have gone through the process of offshoring only to bring the … Continue reading
Social care
These are the times of social care. It is one of our main topics of conversation. With an ageing population, a growing dispersal of the family and the continuing downward pressure on finance it is an issue that is going … Continue reading
Skills skills skills
Digital skills is an interesting issue. There is definitely some sort of problem yet it is difficult to define. It is a subject that certainly got the juices flowing at our latest Socitm meeting. We followed our usual format starting … Continue reading
There is nothing more important than culture
I have had a good run on my blog recently. I don’t know why. I just try to do my thing. May this year is already as good as last year in terms of numbers of reads but I mustn’t … Continue reading
Thinking Digital ten years on
This is Thinking Digital’s tenth year. I know people who have been to them all yet I am not one of them. I forget how many I have been to. It may be as many as seven. Herb Kim has … Continue reading
Is this the price we pay?
The last few days have been bad for decent people and good for cyber criminals. The world has witnessed one of the biggest cyber attacks with the release of Wanna Decryptor or WannaCry and its subsequent variants. The cyber-attack has … Continue reading
