WB40 Podcast: Episode 34 – GDPR Decrypted

This week Chris & Matt are joined by Kate Bevan who talks GDPR readiness (or lack thereof) and the ongoing saga of politicians and encryption back doors. Matt & Chris also think about the latest challenge for the Microsoft Surface. You should check out Kate’s security-focused news site, Naked Security at https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/

WB40 Podcast – Episode 33: Summer Miscellany

This week Chris & Matt get a bunch of things off their chests. This shockingly bad documentary about robots, for instance. This blog post by Matt. The wonderful new book from Tim Harford. This much better documentary about automaton. We talked about the Stoddart Review of workplace efficiency Next week: A mystery guest. Maybe.

WB40 Podcast: Episode 32 – Tribal

In this week’s episode Chris & Matt muse on a history of technology rivalries. If you haven’t seen the excellent Micro Men, you really should check it out…

WB40 Podcast – Episode 31: Exploring the MVW

This week we report from the Minimum Viable Workplace event that took place at the Herman Miller offices in London last Thursday. You can hear our previous episode here. The book Matt mentioned was Remote: Office not required. The post here gives a bit more context to the day.

WB40 Podcast: Episode 30 – the future (of IT management)

This week Chris & Matt gaze their eyes over how the way in which technology is managed within organisations is changing. The trend for programmers confessing to their weaknesses is described well in this article.

WB40 Podcast – Episode 29: Blockchain

This week’s show see’s Matt & Chris discuss the hype du jour – distributed ledgers (AKA Blockchain).

WB40 Podcast: Episode 28 – Documented

This week Matt & Chris discuss the Paperless Office and the future of documents. We have been hearing about the office of the future for many years, will it ever become a reality – or is it actually here right now? And now that we create information so quickly, will the concept of “documents” become […]

WB40 Podcast: Episode 27 – The Why of Corporate IT

In this week’s podcast we take a look at some of the things that confuse non-techies about the world of Corporate IT and ask the simple question: Why? Matt mentioned his recent blog post on the theme of data that you can find here.

WB40 Podcast: Episode 26 – Minimum Viable Workplace

This week Chris & Matt discuss the standard digital responses to acts of terror, and Matt’s latest side project – the Minimum Viable Workplace. The article that originally described MVW is here: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2017/04/06/minimum-viable-workplace/ and the book Sensemaking is available here.

WB40 Podcast – Episode 25: Dream Manifesto

In this week’s show Matt and Chris cast an eye over the three major parties’ manifestos… There were a couple of great articles that helped in the making of the show, one from The Memo and the other in Computer Weekly. Matt mentioned the book Sensemaking – highly recommended.