Day 109 – 24 June 2014 We’ve been running with a simple business model for a couple of years now. I developed it to try and explain in simple terms what we did for our customers. It started out that that we fixed things, maintained things and changed things but after a while we added … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 109
A year of work in progress – day 108
Day 108 – 23 June 2014 First days back are the worst. After five days off I came back to 746 emails, 597 in my inbox, 28 that I was copied into and 121 in a mass mail box that I’d set a new rule up for. The interesting thing though is that all of … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 108
A year of work in progress – day 105
Day 105 – 11 June 2014 I’m doing quite well with my paperless adventure. I used a marker pen to make some notes at yesterday’s unconference but I don’t think that counts. As for the organisation though we have light years yet to travel. Janine has been filling in an application to apply for a … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 105
A year of work in progress – day 104
Day 104 – 10 June 2014 According to Wikipedia, an unconference is a participant-driven meeting. The term "unconference" has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference, such as fees, sponsored presentations, and top-down organization. This morning we held our first … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 104
A year of work in progress – day 103
Day 103 – 9 June 2014 I finished the book ‘Accelerating health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation’ by Paul Plsek. It wasn’t as enjoyable as the first Virginia Mason book I read though it did have some pithy quotes in it. I particularly liked the concept of ‘trystorming’, a bit like brainstorming only letting … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 103
A year of work in progress – day 102
Day 102 – 6 June 2014 There is nothing nicer than left over pie to get you started (that is if you don’t include left over curry but that is not always great if you have a meeting to go to). Pastry must count as one of mankind’s greatest achievements. Today was SOCITM day and … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 102
A year of work in progress – day 100
Day 100 – 4 June 2014 A hundred days and what have I achieved? I picked up Neil A on the way into work this morning as it is management Wednesday and he lives in Cramlington. Finding one space at County Hall (Durham) is hard enough but finding two would be a miracle. We got … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 100
A year of work in progress – day 99
Day 99 – 3 June 2014 Broadband Delivery UK keeps telling us that we are running one of the best programmes across the country. Apparently we are in their top five out of forty four. I’m not sure how they judge this or how we could get to number one, even if we wanted to. … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 99
A year of work in progress – day 98
Day 98 – 2 June 2014 Today was a game of two halves. The morning was in County Hall in Durham and the afternoon was in County Hall in Northumberland. This is going to get confusing. After a couple of very short meetings about the web and communications for Digital Durham I tried something different … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 98
A year of work in progress – day 97
Day 97 – 30 May 2014 I’ve started to read ‘Accelerating Health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation’ by Paul Plsek, a snappy title if ever there was one. It is the follow up book to ‘Transforming Health Care’ about the Virginia Mason approach to serving patients and has reminded me that we still haven’t … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 97
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 