Fotojet: a beautiful web design solution for non graphic designers
Anyone can now be a graphic designer with Fotojet I am pretty much a novice when it comes to photo editing or creating cool designs, I have tried using Adobe…
4 Lessons in Backup: Oh **** My Blog has Just Gone Off Line!!
So What Happened? Hopefully, when you started your blog you decided to implement a backup solution. I thought I would share my learnings from seeing my blog (livingthetech.com) go offline…
Why Everyone Should Try Blogging at Least Once in Their Lives?
Time to Create My Own Blogging Content Well, I thought I would give blogging a go by actually creating my own site, instead of producing content for others I wanted…
Kanban: Adopting and Adapting Agile for IT Teams and Beyond
Kanban & Digital Operations Before I joined Spark Ventures (the R&D group of New Zealand’s largest Telco, Spark NZ) I had always been frustrated with the planning (or lack thereof)…
The old-school CIO is dead: 4 Key challenges for the CIO 3.0
CIO 3.0: Breaking the Status Quo In this digital era, it is critical, not only for IT but for an organisation, that their CIO is at the forefront of digital…
Agile: How to Successfully Manage Multiple Delivery Teams
Adopt and Adapting Agile I aim to use 2 examples that demonstrate how you can deliver “projects” (both Software and more complex work) for customers (in this case Product Managers)…
How I got my site ranked on the first page of Google in 24 hours
Ranked on the first page of Google I was really struggling with getting my articles to be ranked on the first page of Google, which I hoped would ultimately lead…
How to further optimise blog performance and SEO improvements
How to further optimise blog performance and SEO improvements I have slacked off a bit this month, producing nowhere near the amount of content (only 4 posts) compared with 14…
IT Service Management (ITSM): Top 100 Influencers and Brands
Top 100 IT Service Management (ITSM) Influencers Onalytica a developer of social network analysis and influencer relationship management software, named Pete Yates as a Top 100 IT Service Management (ITSM)…
Spark Ventures: Why we chose Amazon Web Services? [Slideshare]
Why we chose Amazon Web Services? These are the slides (click on picture below) I presented at an EnterpriseIT and Amazon Web Services Event in Wellington, New Zealand on why…
What is Strategy – Why is it critical to Business success?
Firstly, what is Strategy? We need to start at the beginning and truly understand; what is Strategy. I have asked myself this many times and historically it has been a…
Help others: Sharing your Leadership Insights or Stories
Leadership insights, paying it forward I am looking to collect a series of leadership insights, either from a personal perspective or insights that were shared with you, maybe a leadership…