by Benjamin Ellis | Apr 14, 2014 | Announcements
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 | Announcements, 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 | 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...