by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 18, 2015 | Surveys
Non-response is a big topic in survey design and management, and also quite a convoluted and complex one. The following is our learning over the last half-decade or so, and provides some background that helps in understanding “no answer” and...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 1, 2015 | Milestone Planner
The weekend before last I headed into a (very sunny) London to UI Centric’s offices, where I spent the day with a group of fellow app developers. Thanks to the superb support of Windows Apps London, we are now very pleased to announce the Milestone Planner is...
by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 9, 2014 | Big Data
This week Bucharest played host to Internet & Mobile World, where, as well as speaking about Social Media and Big Data, I joined a panel on the business impact of Predictive Analytics. The session was chaired by journalist and owner of lastiri.ro, Lucian Mindruta,...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 30, 2014 | Leadership, On the road
I had the opportunity to along to the Responsive Organisation Unconference in London, where I lead a session and attended many others – more about those in a later post. The discussions during the day started a chain of thoughts about organisation structure,...
by Benjamin Ellis | Apr 14, 2014 | Milestone Planner
By now you will almost certainly have read about the recent “Heartbleed” bug that affected many services across the Internet. Like many others, we were notified of the vulnerability early last week and patched our servers within the hour. As a precaution,...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jan 21, 2014 | Milestone Planner, planning
Congratulations, you survived! Ok, that may be a bit overly dramatic, but yesterday (20th of January) was apparently the saddest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, and we are through it! Achievement unlocked, as my kids would say. The new year is a good...
by Benjamin Ellis | Sep 24, 2013 | Knowledge Work
OK, it’s a fairly provocative title, but it is a provocative topic! Join us on Thursday 26th September at 1pm, at Bloomberg’s offices for a lively discussion, where I will be joined by: Euan Semple is the author of “Organizations...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jul 18, 2013 | Productivity
Citrix (the folks behind GoToMeeting) hosted a great evening of Ignite style talks about productivity last night in London. Ignite talks are 20 slides of 15 seconds each, so it is very fasted paced, and fairly brief, but a great way to get an idea...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jul 12, 2013 | Cloud Computing
I spent some time with the folks at rackspace yesterday, talking about the impact of cloud on business and business applications. If you aren’t familiar with cloud computing, or want a bit of a refresher, this deck from one of the business sessions gives a good...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 29, 2013 | Surveys
Last weekend was The Big Yak – there’s a post about the full event over on the Redcatco blog and a round-up on the IC Crowd site. For the second session of the morning, I facilitated a session on surveys and feedback, or as Katie Marlow put it:...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 20, 2013 | Cloud Computing, Milestone Planner
Milestone Planner was the first web-based planning tool with a visual timeline at its heart. Time has moved on and the Software-as-a-service (SaaS) world of cloud-based solutions, now benefits from more powerful browsers with a new generation of technologies. It was...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 14, 2013 | Big Data
Big Human Data from Benjamin Ellis You might have heard about “Big Data” but what I want to focus on today is HUMAN Big Data – the information that is gathered about human attitudes and behaviours – particularly in the on-line world. We can collect data about (almost)...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 22, 2013 | Knowledge Work
It’s fair to say that there’s been a huge amount written about Marissa Mayer’s decision to call people back to the office. The original memo is here. There’s a lot to be said about this, but I want to focus on a couple of things that...
by Benjamin Ellis | Feb 28, 2013 | Leadership
I had the pleasure of listening to Daniel Pink talk at the RSA this week about sales. It was definitely a privilege – there was a 750-person waiting list, one of the largest in the RSA talk’s history – at least in part due to Daniel’s previous...
by Benjamin Ellis | Feb 7, 2013 | Management, Milestone Planner
More and more of the conversations we are having with Milestone Planner users are about the challenges of matrix working. The formal definition of a matrix is anywhere there are dual reporting lines i.e. people have more than one formal boss. Almost anyone using...
