Learning From Violent Pickled Vegetables

Pickled vegetables are great. Arguably, the greatest pickled vegetable is the gherkin. It is said, that they were once cucumbers, but who knows the origin story…and truthfully, who cares, they’re tasty and add an essential twang to a barbeque treat. But what can these pickled delights teach us? Unsurprisingly, not a great deal typically, but…

IoP – The Internet of Potatoes

Continuing to push analogies to breaking point…This time with fries! You might have seen a post recently with describing an application as front end, back end and API. Something along these lines: Nice. Elegant. Simple. It provides a convenient way to talk about technology that everyone can relate to….but is it too simplistic? There’s lots…

What is Digital? Customer-led and data-driven automation to create new value.

What is Digital?

Over the last decade or so, there are few words used more regularly and more vaguely to mean more things across the business World as “Digital”. It means everything and nothing, has justified enormous programs of work and changed the shape and behaviour of organisations of all sizes. You can add it to pretty much…

Paul Kerrison Keynote Speaker at Enterprise IT Strategy Forum

Keynote Kerrison

I’m honoured to have been asked to deliver the keynote on day 2 of the Enterprise IT Strategy Forum on the 10th-11th September. If you’re going, please come along and listen to me chat about what future IT estates should look like and how to get there (quite possibly to a slightly hungover audience…) Blueprint…

Pizza as a Service 2.0 - Paul Kerrison

Pizza as a Service 2.0

Recently I was trying to describe the various types of cloud services available for modern IT deployment. Like many, I resorted to an analogy – the ever popular “Pizza as a Service”. However, the more I tried to use it, the more strained it became – my main difficulties were: The elements intuitively thought of…