Author Archives: stevecayzer
The Global Classroom
Last week, I travelled to London with my colleagues @TraceyMadden and @FabioNemetz to attend the #ESLTIS16 conference. The conference was fascinating (some thoughts below). Tracey and I presented some work that we have done with @DanishMishra on using Social Network Analysis … Continue reading
Christmas Puzzle
This is a logic puzzle I picked up some time back. I think a version appears in a great book called Modern Heuristics. Warning – it’s a bit of a time waster. But there is a solution, I promise.
No email in the morning
For the time pressured, the title of this post is the conclusion. Read on to find out why.
Agile in Government
Despite my last blog on some well publicised troubles, agile is still firmly central to the UK government’s digital strategy (incidentally this appears to be true over the pond in the USA). This topic was explored on Friday morning at agile … Continue reading
Does Agile work?
Ouch! The UK national audit office has just released a report criticising the DWP project on Universal Credit, released on the last day of agile on the beach. It has been billed as a ‘rude awakening for the agile dream’, ‘agile chaos’ and even … Continue reading
Agile on the Beach?
Agile on the Beach. Is this a real conference? I was sceptical, until I checked the 2012 lineup and discovered that this conference – probably more than other agile conferences – tackled business as well as technical challenges. It’s also … Continue reading
Papers and referencing
I’ve been using the Mac version of a program called Papers2 (also available on Windows). I am slowly getting converted to the program, if you are looking for a better way to organise your academic reading I recommend you give it … Continue reading
Future of the UK automobile industry?
I am rarely this timely with my blog posts but was alerted to this announcement by my colleague Andrew Graves: The government and automotive industry are investing £500 million each over the next ten years in an Advanced Propulsion Centre … Continue reading
Christensen #3 – Building a Theory
In perhaps the most interesting (and certainly the most novel) lecture, Clay gave a meta-explanation of the Innovator’s Dilemma, using it to illustrate the process of building a theory.
Christensen #2 – Disruptive Innovation and the Panda’s Thumb
Much of this lecture came from ‘The Innovator’s Solution‘ – a well judged (and marketed) follow up to Christensen’s seminal ‘Innovator’s Dilemma‘ book. The phrase Panda’s Thumb, btw, comes from Stephen Jay Gould, a brilliant evolutionary biologist who used the … Continue reading
