allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

I’ve used some of the Christmas time to rush through to the end of my latest read - Good to Great by Jim Collins (Random House, 2001). I’l...

On Wednesday night I was out drinking with ACCU members in London. For those of you who don’t know the ACCU I’d better explain. It is an ...

Companies often boast about their "flat hierarchy" (and yes that term is something of an oxymoron) but it seems a flat hierarchy i...

Time for another book recommendation. I've just finished reading The Inmates Are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper. This is a passion...

I’ve not said much about “offshoring” in this blog to date. In part that has been because while I broadly agree with the theory behind it m...

Opposite my house there are a few shops. Every few months one or other of these closes and every few months a new one opens. It keeps the ...

I’m back in the USA for a few days attending some seminars on product management. They very good and highly recommended - check out the web...

John Maynard Keynes, the economist once said: "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when th...

I spent a couple of years working in California, in Silicon Valley itself to be exact. Unfortunately instead of getting .com boom I got .co...

A little blog interlude... If you live in London and you’ve not been to the Serpentine Galley then you’ve missed something good. And if yo...