David Terrar
Founder & CXO of Agile Elephant, a digital transformation consultancy and solutions provider. Head of D2C, a consulting firm which provides business and social media consulting and Cloud based solutions for content, collaboration, web publishing, online accounting and ERP. Was director EuroCloud UK, chaired techUK's Software as a Service Group, now Chair of Cloud Industry Forum.
Clarity, Cloud, and Culture Change at IBM
As we all know “business as usual” just changed for every person, team and organisation on the planet. In this “new normal” there are plenty of lessons to learn, unlearn and relearn. Essentially, we need to keep calm and carry on, at the same time as recognising the significant new opportunities this throws up alongside the common problems we […]
We need to shift from Linear Thinking to Mutable Thinking
Only a few weeks ago many of us at the forefront of analysing, influencing and telling the story of the amazing technological changes that make up the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” would be explaining that we are living in one of the most exhilarating times in human history. We might even have joked using the Chinese […]
What’s in the bag in a World Gone Digital?
This week I’ve been musing over the last 20 years of a World Gone Digital, and then got tempted to go back 15 years further. We’re living in an amazing time for technological change — the most disruptive for IT ever! Some Twitter conversations this week started me thinking about the way things have progressed during my […]
20 years of a World Gone Digital
20 years of a World Gone Digital Here are some reflections on twenty years of a World gone social and digital, triggered by the fact that I passed the anniversary of my 8th year on Twitter at the weekend. Coincidentally, 14 February was the same day YouTube came in to being 10 years ago […]
The myth and reality of “a picture is worth a thousand words?”
When looking at some of the output from our first London conference, theEnterprise 2.0 Summit London, the story behind this well known phrase came to mind: “A picture is worth a thousand words” Most people usually think this was a Chinese proverb, some might specifically say from Confuscious. At this point avid QI watchers might […]
Twitter — from friendly village to noisy megalopolis
A few things struck me today about Twitter and about one aspect of a World gone social. I subscribe to a great service called Timehop, which reminds me every day about tweets and Twitter conversations for this day but 1, 2, 3 and more years ago. It’s a great way to bring back things you […]
Book review: SAP Nation — a must read for CIOs enterprise software watchers
This is a must read, dissecting the massive SAP enterprise software ecosystem and economy. Hopefully senior executives, both in SAP and in the service providers and systems integrators that operate in the SAP Nation can put themselves in their customers shoes, read this book and listen to Vinnie Mirchandani’s call for action.
Dealing with Digital Disruption
Riding the Digital Enterprise Wave Your business model is under threat from what we call the Digital Enterprise Wave. Are you going to ride it or go under? The digital enterprise wave from David Terrar Take a look at these slides and let me explain how the business landscape is changing. It’s driven by significant […]
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step (so get off your…)
I’m in awe of some of my friends who have published one or more books — I regret not following through and doing it myself, so maybe I should be listening to Lao Tzu?
Vlatka Hlupic adds to the discussion on Emergent Leadership and the “Shift”
Professor Vlatka Hlupic launched her book The Management Shift at the Houses of Parliament last night. It’s about emergent management, shifting from hierarchical command and control to an open collaborative culture. It’s valid, backed by cogent research, but it’s stuff we know and have been talking about for a while.
