(118) Fall Back

On this week’s show you can hear Matt & Chris talking about some of the implications of facial recognition and deep fake technologies, and also quite how clever the Prince of Darkness Cummings may actually be. You can find Chris’s blog post here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/de-risking-personal-data-process-chris-weston/ And the Cummings post here: https://Dominiccummings.com/2019/06/26/on-the-referendum-33-high-performance-government-cognitive-technologies-michael-nielsen-bret-victor-seeing-rooms/ Matt is running a panel […]

(117) Is STEM the problem?

On this week’s show we speak with Amy Golding about her nology project. Matt mentioned the Value Proposition Canvas which you can find at https://www.strategyzer.com/ If you are interested in The Social CEO book in which Matt (amongst may others) has a chapter, you can pre-order it here: https://amzn.to/2StevNy (sponsored link). We’ll be back in September […]

(116) Consulting Artist

On this week’s show we speak with Consulting Artist Doug Shaw about the work he does with his corporate clients exploring ambiguity, and Matt accuses Chris of the most appalling crime. –Transcript by otter.ai. Included for search purposes. ———– Matt Ballantine 0:20 Hello, and welcome to Episode 116 of WB 40, the weekly podcast with […]

(115) Innovating

On this week’s show Matt & Chris chew the fat over the concept of Innovation. Some of the models that Matt talks about can be found in this short thread of blog posts: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2019/06/26/innovation-in-4-diagrams-1-digital-architecture/ Chris’s South Park reference is here: -Transcript produced by Otter.ai. You might use it for accessibility, but it’s really here so […]

(114) Social Listening

On this week’s show Matt speaks with Jeremy Hollow from Listen & Learn Research about social insight. We also have Yin & Yang, and here’s Chris’s scary Yang…

(113) Fire Safety

As we pass the two-year anniversary of the Grenfell Disaster, on this week’s show we speak with fire safety campaigner Phil Murphy about fire engineering and the role of tech. You can find Phil on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/manccommunities We also quiz Chris on his book knowledge. It didn’t go well.

(112) Role Sharing

On this week’s show Matt speaks to RoleShare’s Sophie Smallwood about all things job sharing. We also see the welcome return of Internet Yin and Yang. If you really must, Chris’s new favourite spreadsheet can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19gMMn4Wmw3BNLWMojEy7kgrjnjVB2JlMSwd1s-nYyUc/edit#gid=0

(111) Data Driven

On this week’s show Matt speaks to Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson about their new book Data Driven Business Transformation. We’ve got three copies to give away. Just tweet us the answer to the question we set in the show – two books for the first two correct answers, and one to the one we […]

(110) ITDF

On this week’s show Chris and Matt report back from the IT Directors’ Forum at The Grove Hotel in Hertfordshire. You can find out more about Avril here: https://www.cancercentral.org.uk/moreAboutUs.jsf And about Ian here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dudleyian/ We’re off for a week – next show and back to usual format on June 3rd

(109) Customer Experiences

On this week’s show, partly recorded at the Richmond Events IT Directors Forum, we speak to Freshworks’ CEO Girish Mathrubootham about Customer Experience and starting up in India.