Thoughts on Housing Camp Cymru 2016
Neil Having got loads out of last year’s Housing Camp Cymru, I felt it was only right and proper to lend a helping hand running this years unconference. A disclaimer before…
Don’t Go Chasing Waterfall (.. project management)
This isn’t a post about 90’s R&B sensation TLC, this is about project management. No wait, don’t go. Come back! Until recently, the standard way to manage any sort of…
Is The ‘Digital’ Tag Superfluous?
Is having a Digital Strategy about as sensible as devising an Electricity Strategy? In this day an age it might seem entirely ridiculous to treat digital as a subset of…
Where are all the (digital) leaders?
I stumbled across this quote a few months ago and it has stuck in my head with regards to the ‘digital mindset’.. The past decade was about finding new collaboration…
Four different conversations with broadly the same conclusion.
This week I’ve been fortunate enough to speak (and listen) to lots of intelligent and thoughtful people about a variety of topics. Four stood out for a singular reason. How…
What Automation Might Look Like for Housing Associations
This morning I was thinking about what interaction with services might look like in the future. At the moment we’re concentrating on digital services in terms of the web but…
#UKHousing IT : Adapt or Die
I read this post by Paul Taylor about “IT departments facing an adapt or die moment” and it got some of my synapses firing. The race to provide proper digital…
My Workflow (2015 edition)
Hello, my name is Neil and I’m a productivity tool addict. Yammer, Slack, Asana, Trello Evernote, Droptask, Basecamp, Todoist, Wunderlist, Mailbox, Inbox, Google Apps… you name it, I’ve probably tried…
Housing Camp Cymru 2015
Who in their right mind rolls out of bed at an unsociable hour on a Saturday morning and treks to rain drenched Newbridge to talk about work stuff on their…
You want Innovation? Learn to love failure!
Innovation — a huge buzzword that has been doing the rounds increasingly for the last year or so. Technology is driving change at such a rapid pace that organisations are looking to…