This month’s Dynamonet was held at Nigel Wright Recruitment in Grey Street in the centre of Newcastle. These events are put on every month as a way of getting like minded people to come together to think about issues that affect the technology industry in the region. They take place around the … Continue reading Recruiting the best talent
Too difficult – then do something
I am such a magpie. Whenever I pick up a new book it gets me thinking about a new subject. It doesn’t matter whether it is fiction or not. They all count. My latest pick up is a recommendation from a friend. I’m only a few pages into ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman … Continue reading Too difficult – then do something
Low tech
One of my daughters bought me a Boogie Board for Christmas. It is a low tech device that looks quite high tech. About the size of a small tablet it allows you to write on it with the accompanying stylus. You can pretend it is like an iPad Mini. When you have finished, with the … Continue reading Low tech
Don’t bark at passing cars
Don't bark at passing cars. Mark Mullen said this is in his opening speech at Thinking Digital this year. It made me think of Snoopy though I’m not sure he was a barker. The dog next door barks at anything, it is a Chihuahua and so perhaps its image should have popped into my head … Continue reading Don’t bark at passing cars
The machine that defines our age
We preside over a great machine. It is huge. A leviathan. It is the machine that is defining our age. Our machine doesn't have whirring cogs or spinning wheels, nor does it belch smoke or hiss with steam. Indeed most of its moving parts are people. Thousands of people, millions of people, use it every … Continue reading The machine that defines our age
Dealing with contradiction in leadership
People are contradictory. They say one thing and do another, they think they mean one thing when they really mean something else, they think they are being helpful as they cut you to the quick and their lips move while their bodies talk a different language. There is no use fighting it, that is the … Continue reading Dealing with contradiction in leadership
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 just being pretentious? Our elephant is trust and it would seem we are well on … Continue reading Elephants revisited
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 work back again. (I’m not talking about Geordie Shore here. That is something completely different … Continue reading Technical offshoring
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 to run and run. The proportion of the elderly is getting greater and greater. By … Continue reading Social care
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 off with an industry view from John at Amazon Web Services. This was followed by … Continue reading Skills skills skills
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 