Category Informatics Leadership
Inspirational moments, places and people, they hit you and hit you hard! For me inspiration is what drives innovation, not just of what we create but also in how we think and how we work. I feel very lucky to… Read More
At the moment, whether it’s conference season or just a significant up turn in interest for what we do, I find myself living in Power Point. I even dreamt in Power Point the other night! I presented at a life… Read More
Leading a team. How did that become the key role of an Informatics specialist? The day the specialist became a CIO, that’s when! Trying to build a team whilst leading a team and trying to create enthusiasm in a whole… Read More
Innovation is an abstract of what we do every day, but a new system that has been a couple of years in the coming will be delivered by Father Christmas this year. A system that will become the spine of… Read More
“Turn around, don’t run upstairs, please don’t go in the garage”… all that is missing is, “I will be right back!” the joys of wonderful horror films! Would you ever knowingly take on a failing project with many of those… Read More
In statistics the name given to mistaking noise for signal is known as “overfitting”. When delivering new Information Systems the concept is also prevalent, particularly at the stage in delivery that sends shivers down every IS project managers spine, the… Read More
I am reading Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise, and a thought struck me about his categorisation of those that can make good forecasts and those that would be best leaving it to luck. He proposes that there are… Read More
I have a directorate of around 50 people that I am extremely proud of, they work hard to deliver some wonderful innovative solutions to quite complex problems against a financially “tight belt”. The structure is quite traditional for any informatics directorate;… Read More