Category: digital
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Post of the Month – December 2017 – Nominations
It's time to open up nominations for Post of the Month. The first vote of 2018, but nominations please covering posts written over the past month. You can nominate direct or via the comments below, and as soon as I have enough I'll pop them up for a vote. As usual I have a short…
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Post of the Month – November 2017 – The Winner
A close vote this month but it was Thas Naseemuddeen's thoughtful post on Two years of being a chief of a thing that won through in the end so well done to Thas. She joins the hall of fame. My thanks to everyone that took part in the vote.
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Post of the Month – November 2017 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Two years of being a chief of a thing by Thas Naseemuddeen The ins and outs of work by Matthew Knight How to Measure Ghosts: Arthur C. Nielsen and the Invention of Big Data by Matt Locke Strategy: How to Develop, Structure and Shape a Winning System by…
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Post of the Month – November 2017 – Nominations
It's time to open up nominations for Post of the Month for November – so if there are pieces that you've read over the past month that you thought were particularly good you can nominate them to be included in the vote via the comments below or direct. As soon as I have a good…
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Personalising Purpose
We hear so much about brand and organisational purpose but I think that the nuances of how we bring this to life are often lost. In Accelerate, John Kotter (who also wrote Leading Change of-course) talks about purpose in the context of change and the difference between the idea of a 'burning-platform', and fear-driven change…
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Google Firestarters – Change and Complexity – The Event
For our recent Google Firestarters (our 26th!), we revisited a successful format that we first did two years ago. In 2015, in one of our most successful Firestarters ever, seven of the best minds in the industry gave a ten minute perspective in answer to a single question: what's the best thing that you've learned in…
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The Unit of Delivery
There’s a great interview with Tom Loosemore (Group Director of Digital Services at the Co-Op and ex-Govt Digital Service) talking about the digital transformation of public services in the latest issue of Offscreen magazine. One of my favourite quotes from it is the one above. It’s less and less surprising to me that my work…
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Post of the Month – October 2017 – The Winner
A lively vote this month (thanks to everyone that took part) but happy to say that the winner of Post of the Month is Tom Morton with his post over on the APG site (scroll down to read) on How To Get On: Gen X Edition. Well done Tom – you join the hall of fame.…
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Google Firestarters 26: The Return of The Magnificent Seven
In 2015, in one of our most successful Firestarters ever, seven of the best minds in the industry gave a short, punchy perspective in answer to a single question - what's the best thing that you've learned in your career? Two years later and we thought it was about time that we revisited that format…
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Post of the Month – October 2017 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations everyone. So our vote this month is between: How To Get On: Gen X Edition by Tom Morton (scroll down to see the post) Lady Gaga, the joy of data and why it pays not to be seduced too easily by Richard Shotton From the Library to the Lobby: Making the Switch from…