On a mission to take on Diversity within the Gaming Industry A #GirlsBehindTheGames campaign has been launched by a games studio in New Zealand, called ‘Runaway Play’. The campaign calls to promote gender parity and diversity within the gaming industry,…
Redress the life/work balance It’s almost time to hang up your Christmas stockings for Santa or to just take some time off during this holiday period to redress the balance between life and your devices. How connected to work will…
Why Digital Transformation Stalls Without Effective ITSM I was pleased to have been asked to contribute by BMC, along with 14 Top Thinkers, to this Guide (at the bottom of this post) on Digital Transformation, from an IT Service Management…
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 Creative Cloud (was a bit more than I needed and…
My Blog Went Down: 4 Backup Lessons I Learned the Hard Way Hopefully, when you started your blog, you decided to implement a blog backup solution or solutions (see Lesson 4 below). I thought I would share my learnings from…
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 to continue to develop my own personal brand, using and…
Kanban Done Wrong: What’s Slowing Your Ops Team Down 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) of non-BAU work. Basically, anything…
CIO 3.0: The 4 Biggest Challenges Facing Today’s Digital Leaders In this digital era, it is critical, not only for IT but for an organisation, that their CIO is at the forefront of digital innovation and disruption. The CIO 3.0…
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) using single and multiple teams but still remain largely Agile…
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 to an improvement in traffic to my blog. I persevered…
How to Optimise Blog Performance with Smart SEO Improvements I have slacked off a bit this month, producing nowhere near the amount of content (only 4 posts) compared with 14 posts published last month. Not surprisingly, then, I have seen…
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) influencer for 2016 (coming in at number 74). I was…