Month: February 2017
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Industry 5.0 – using software to help with business transformation
I forget what Industry 1, 2, and 3 are, but there’s a lot of talk these days about Industry 4.0 being about sensors and the internet of things. I think industry 5.0 could be about software which helps our managers achieve business transformation. I know it sounds dull but bear with me. At some point,…
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How to buy a train ticket from Gatwick Airport central to London
There are three trains – the ‘Gatwick Express’ (about £20, 30mins to Victoria), ‘Southern’ (about £12, about 35 minutes, to Victoria), and ‘Thameslink’ (about £10, 40 / 50 mins, to Blackfriars, Farringdon and St Pancras). All trains go about every 15 minutes but bigger gaps late at night or early morning when you are most…
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What is technology capable of doing today?
Technology today is: – Capable of helping people have useful and rewarding work even within a big corporation. – Capable of letting children play online completely safely. – Capable of supporting employment for millions of people – and helping them provide value. – Helping us achieve high levels of safety in our working environment –…
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A decentralised software for managing our health services
Here’s how decentralised software might work for managing health: First there needs to be an agreed data model. This is probably the hardest part of it. Although there are plenty of examples in industry of people agreeing on a data model. The data model needs to include all of the data which people might want…
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Could non centrally managed software be the business advance of the next decade?
Business software is traditionally and currently nearly always done like this. Big company buys software from big software company which promises to solve their problems. Small companies have less budget to buy it, and small software companies can’t make such large and complex products, but it is still roughly the same thing. What if the…
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What is people centric software engineering
People centric software engineering means building software which is designed to help people. If the people has a specific objective to reach and the software is designed to help them reach it (so we are not talking about for example computer games), what might this mean? Presenting people with information they need to make…
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“Management in a digital age” deserves more focus
In the real world (that is, the non digital world), there have always been good managers, poor managers, and people who thought a lot about management – ever since people were managed. Just about all of us could say what good management is. As the person being managed, we are clear on the goals we…
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Software for people who like people
This blog is for people who are interested in software which can help people involved in managing something to better achieve their objectives. Is this you? Why are you interested in software? Many people are interested in technology for technology’s sake. This sometimes seems to be the Google thinking. People who like technology being able…
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Why you should ignore the ‘internet of things’
If you hear the phrase ‘internet of things’ – you’re probably listening to someone trying to sell you something. Why is this? Because anyone else – someone you might want to use the data from the ‘things’ – is never going to see the ‘things’ in this way. Let’s say you are a ship engineer…
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Fintech – improving on HSBC
If by bank (HSBC) counts as a typical “traditional financial institution”, in my opinion it is exceptionally good at IT including cybersecurity, exceptionally good at customer service, offers all the services I need as a private individual and as a business, all for very low rates (last time I looked for a mortgage it was…