The thoughts, impressions & sometimes the ramblings of a digital leader

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2024 – Review of the year

This annual blog is 12 years old today, every year for the last 12 years I have come here to capture what happened over the last 365 days, what we enjoyed, what we did and more and more how that… Read More

Professional Digital Leaders are a Transformational Force…

HotTopics article #One reposted here. Read More

Unconstrained IT

How do we get to a place where we are delivering ‘Unconstrained IT’ to our business is something that bothers me. To some degree its this that keeps me awake at night the most at the moment, I want to… Read More

Clarity of Sight

Writing our first collaboration together about the thing that connects us the most our views on how people work together and what is needed to drive change and behaviours, Steve and I have enjoyed being colleagues for a long time,… Read More

Manual Of Me

Joining a new organisation and becoming the new boy again is daunting. A great friend of mine recently moved roles inside the NHS and created a ‘Manual Of Me’ to share with his new colleagues, I loved the idea so… Read More

Boots IT & Architecture Partnership

What do Rich Corbridge, CIO of Boots in the UK and Ireland and Grant Ecker, Chief Architect at WBA have in common? The Boots IT CIO stretching to think like an Architect? A Chief Architect stretching to think like a CIO? Sure,… Read More

Digital and the commodity world…

I was reading a Pitchfork retrospective article about the seminal electronic band Boards of Canada the other day and a phrase came up, Avoiding the timely, they aim to achieve the timeless …and I fell in love with what it… Read More

The make-up of great leadership…

“Imagine that the Clash had stayed around to be influenced by 3rd Bass, the Young Disciples and Marshall Jefferson. Or Soul II Soul had been inspired as much by Public Image Limited’s ‘Metal Box’ as Public Enemy or that the… Read More

Innovation coaching…

Lead innovation. It sounds so simple, but innovation means so many different things to so many people. Not to mention trying to ‘lead’ a creative process, to make something happen that is quite a creative and individual ‘thing’ requires a… Read More

The Shades of Grey IT.

What is one of the most wicked problems in large organisations seriously adopting digital today? Many digital leaders would say it’s the challenge that Grey IT brings, and then some board members would turn to them and say what is… Read More

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