by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 28, 2010 | Leadership, Milestone Planner
Last week I caught Doug Richard, known from Dragon’s Den, and now the School for Start ups, at The Centre for Creative Collaboration. He was talking about Entrepreneurship and creativity. I’m sharing what he said here because the majority of Milestone...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 17, 2010 | Leadership, Management
Sometimes it takes a night’s sleep to digest a talk. Fons Trompenaars session yesterday here at Orange Live 10 was one such talk. It provoked a huge deal of discussion and argument in the Blogger’s room afterwards, and with a title like “riding the...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 16, 2010 | Leadership, Milestone Planner, On the road
I’m in Amsterdam, at Orange Business Live 2010 – An event Orange Business Services runs each year, looking at the challenges and changes in the communications space. At the pre-event evening event one thing that really struck me was the value in networking...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 8, 2010 | Leadership
I would like to bring some research to your attention. Depending on where you are in the organisation, you might not want to show this to your boss – it might cost you money. But if you are the boss, you need to know about this. It might revolutionise your...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 4, 2010 | Milestone Planner
If you have logged into Milestone Planner in the last day or two, you will have seen the latest new feature, the Activity Stream. A Better Sense of History Plans, as we call them in the app now – a nice, friendly short hand for projects – have always had a...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 26, 2010 | Event, Milestone Planner
Today I am up at Thinking Digital, in Gateshead. The evidence that the digirati are here in force is that the conference tag – #TDC10 – was trending topic on Twitter. Jonathan Drori has just given a provocative talk on the on classic pitfalls of business...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 19, 2010 | Leadership, Management
Outcome-based planning seems to attract a different type of leader. I had the opportunity to catch up with a few of our biggest Milestone Planner advocates on the phone today. I always come away from those discussions energised – they are a very different crew...
by Caalie | May 19, 2010 | Management, Milestone Planner
I caught site of a post about managing client expectations. Lots of us have projects to implement which involve not only folks from within our organisation, but clients, suppliers, contractors from other organisations. Sometimes managing the to-ing and fro-ing of...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 18, 2010 | Milestone Planner, On the road
Thursday’s Being-Social Mashup event turned into a focal point for recent thinking and discussion. I chaired a panel on “How Social Media is changing the way we communicate” with Andrew Davis, Chris Thorpe, Jamie Riddell and David Cushman. Of course, within that...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 12, 2010 | Milestone Planner, planning
It’s been an interesting few days in the UK, but my eyes have been drawn to a news story about US president Obama. It’s positioned as a bombshell, but I’m not so sure why. “‘You’re coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 4, 2010 | Milestone Planner, planning, Project Management
Before you read this you’ll need a pen and a piece of paper… OK. Draw a square. Now draw a triangle on top of the square. On the right hand side of the triangle, just on top, draw a rectangle. Now inside the first square you drew draw four other squares...
by Benjamin Ellis | Apr 26, 2010 | Milestone Planner
The week sees another release of Milestone Planner, with some new features and a lot of work behind the scenes for a complete new set of features – I’ll write more about that in the next few posts – still in private beta right now. If you would like...
by Benjamin Ellis | Apr 6, 2010 | Milestone Planner
The latest version of Milestone Planner just went live. The latest release brings a frequently requested feature, and a little something that we built to keep things moving along. Milestone Dependencies in Projects We often get asked if Milestone Planner supports...
by Benjamin Ellis | Apr 1, 2010 | Milestone Planner
April 1st, Reading, UK. Milestone Planner has lead the way in collaborative, real-time project management and outcome-based planning since it’s launch last year. However, the SocialOptic team hasn’t stopped there. Inspiration has come from the run away...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 24, 2010 | Milestone Planner, On the road
Last week I had the pleasure of being over at South by South West in Austin, Texas. Although its roots are in the music industry, it is also one of the largest digital interactive events on the planet. Web folks, designers, programmers, agencies and big brands gather...
