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 | Announcements, 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 | Announcements, 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 | Announcements, 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 | Announcements, 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 | Announcements, 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...
by Benjamin Ellis | Nov 2, 2012 | Announcements, Event, Productivity
I had the pleasure of listening to Khoi Tu talk about teams at the RSA in London. Khoi’s slogan is: “building a better world, one team at a time.” – which resonated with much of what we are trying to do here. His talk draws from his book:...
by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 12, 2012 | Announcements, Milestone Planner
As well as improved invite and sharing functions, the latest release of Milestone Planner re-introduces a new and improved “repeat” function, closing the loop between emergent planning (see “building a plan”) and repeatable processes....
by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 2, 2012 | Event, Management
Although I didn’t physically manage to get to #mindtheproduct2012, I did get to enjoy the tweetstream, mainly thanks to the tweets of @welovelean and @mindtheproduct (the latter under the prolific fingertips of James Mayes). If you are, or aspire to be, a...
by Benjamin Ellis | Sep 13, 2012 | Leadership, Management
Earlier in the year I spoke at an event for the Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), and some recent discussions have caused me to reflect again on how social technologies are fundamentally altering the way we do business. A study by IBM, that...
by Benjamin Ellis | Sep 3, 2012 | Announcements, Milestone Planner
We’ve been inspired by the sporting, and put on a bit of a sprint with a number of updates to Milestone Planner over the last few days. They are all aimed at making it simpler, faster, and easier to use. And, in a retro-chic move, there are also improvements for...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jul 30, 2012 | Announcements, Cloud Computing
This spoof video, via satire site “The Onion” sums up much of what is going wrong with Cloud, and the marketing of Cloud-based apps, at the moment: You made need to click here to watch the video: HP cloud Video (The Onion) “Cloud” has become...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jul 16, 2012 | Announcements, Management, Productivity
I was saddened to learn today of Stephen Covey’s death, at the age of 79, following an previous cycling accident. I had drafted this post over the weekend, and it seems fitting to post it as a tribute; our thoughts are with his friends and family. Stephen Covey...
