Suw Charman has asked people to join her today on Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of the first computer programmer, in writing about women in technology that they admire.
Now, I’m a cultural rather than a tehcnical geek, so the woman who leapt to mind that I admire most in the tech industry is Shona Brown, [...]
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Ada Lovelace Day: Shona Brown
Comrade Excel and the Glorious Five Year Plan
Spreadsheets aren’t strategy, as Umair Haque is fond of saying.
Turns out they can actually be quite dangerous, for the temptation they bring to reduce a business (a complex, human enterprise) to a set of numbers on a page. Even more dangerous when they trick us into thinking we can predict the future and call the [...]
Tag Archive: management
Ada Lovelace Day: Shona Brown
Suw Charman has asked people to join her today on Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of the first computer programmer, in writing about women in technology that they admire.
Now, I’m a cultural rather than a tehcnical geek, so the woman who leapt to mind that I admire most in the tech industry is Shona Brown, [...]
Comrade Excel and the Glorious Five Year Plan
Spreadsheets aren’t strategy, as Umair Haque is fond of saying.
Turns out they can actually be quite dangerous, for the temptation they bring to reduce a business (a complex, human enterprise) to a set of numbers on a page. Even more dangerous when they trick us into thinking we can predict the future and call the [...]