allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

I originally read Thinking Beyond Lean (1998) over four years ago, it was good at the time and its still good. A few weeks ago I picked up...

Anyone who believes that all IT and technology jobs in Europe and America are doomed to move to India and China should make sure they read t...

I’ve got an account on LinkedIn , and I’ve got a whole bunch of connections. If you don’t know LinkedIn it is a social network site with a ...

I was at EuroPLoP in Bavaria most of last week. I returned mentally fired up with lots of ideas and new thoughts but physically shattered ...

Shortly after taking over IBM Lou Gerstner famously said “The last thing this company needs is a vision.” In an era when businesses men oft...

Since returning from holiday I’ve been blogging less - some might argue this is a good thing. I’ve always tried to aim for about one blog e...

While I was in Russia I got to do a lot of reading, in fact, I started The Search (John Battelle, 2005) on the plan to Moscow and finished ...

One of the things I try and do in this blog is make sense of the world around me. In fact, I think most of what most of do in life is to tr...

Its a year since I started blogging and I promise to reflect more fully on the positive and negative aspects of blogging. In the meantime, ...

Last weeks Economist contained an interesting piece on German exports ( subscription required .) One of the things that caught my eye was s...