Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Pandemic planning provides priorities

    Pandemic planning provides priorities

    “If you have more than three priorities, you don’t have any.” Jim Collins  One of the many things that the COVID response has proven is just how much can get done when there are focused priorities. Teams are delivering high quality outcomes, at pace, all over the place. Organisations are solving problems that were considered…

  • Friday talks offer.

    Friday talks offer.

    I wasn’t going to do any public speaking this year. I had decided to take a break after a pretty stressful 2019 (ha – remember 2019 – doesn’t seem so bad now!) where giving talks became a bit of a contributor to my anxiety. Anyway circumstances have changed a little 😉 So yesterday afternoon I…

  • April 2020

    April 2020

    Well April was 400 days long wasn’t it. I don’t even remember who I was before this month! Apparently I have been on the ‘Coronacoaster‘ according to Kim. Up one minute, down the next. I’ve had various bursts of energy that has led to a couple of blogposts, some momentum on Sticker Stories and an…

  • Avoid learning too many lessons from these ‘unprecedented times’

    Avoid learning too many lessons from these ‘unprecedented times’

    There is no doubt that COVID-19 has radically changed the way many people are working and has accelerated the take up of digital tools more than anything…ever.  There is excitement about all the previously barricaded doors it is opening across institutions (to be fair this is partly a displacement activity from all the stress and…

  • As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a…Beastie Boy

    As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a…Beastie Boy

    Last night I watched the ‘Beastie Boys Story’. Like their book ‘Beastie Boys Book’ it is an entertaining, funny and emotional retelling of their lives in the band and in particular a love letter to the missing third member of the group – Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch. There is a famous line at the start of…