Month: December 2016
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On Blogging
I realised the other day that early this month marked the tenth anniversary of this blog. The quietude with which this anniversary slipped past belies the sizeable impact that blogging has actually had on my life. I began writing this blog at a time when the social web was really kicking off. At the time I…
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Shipped in 2016
What can you say about 2016? A strange and disconcerting year in so many ways. But there is also lots to be grateful for. Every year around this time I write myself a kind of end of year review listing all the main things I've been involved with throughout the year, as a way of…
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The Agile Business Manifesto
I've always stressed in my writing about agile my belief that the principles that underpin agile working, as well as the culture that surrounds it, have far broader application than just technology teams and the way in which software is built. This is at the centre of the organisational agility that we describe in the…
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Why Change Management Needs to Change
Over on the Medium publication that I've created for my upcoming book on Building the Agile Business I've posted some thoughts on why, in the context of digital transformation and the significant amount of change that many organisations are undergoing right now, we need to reinvent traditional approaches to change management. In the book, a key…
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My Books
AGILE MARKETING: UNLOCK ADAPTIVE AND DATA-DRIVEN MARKETING FOR LONG-TERM SUCCESS My latest book Agile Marketing, published in 2022, is the definitive guide to transforming marketing structures, processes and culture, to be fit for purpose in today’s changeable environment. It covers how to put data at the heart of agility and performance, how to empower fast-moving…
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Building the Agile Business – The Launch of My Book
An important announcement. The manuscript is finished and submitted and we have a publication date for our book on Building The Agile Business. It will be out on April 3rd. I don't mind admitting that it's been something of a marathon to write it but I'm really pleased with the result. I've been writing here…
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Post of the Month – November 2016 – The Winner
Happy to say that the winner of this month's Post of the Month vote is David Carr with his excellent map of modern brand building. Well done David – you are now entered into the hall of fame. My thanks to everyone for taking part in the vote.
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Post of the Month – November 2016 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Culture is Risky by James Cooper A Map of Modern Brand Building by David Carr The Uneasy Blurring of Work and Play by Tom Chatfield On Slowly Forgetting by Kim Plowright (via Russell Davies) What’s Wrong With Big Data? by James Bridle The Government…
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Post of the Month – November 2016 – Nominations
It being early December it's time to open up nominations for Post of the Month. So if there are any good reads over the past month that you'd like to nominate, please do so in the comments below or direct. I have, as usual, a few starters: Culture is Risky by James Cooper A Map…