Clippings
Various clippings / links / awards /
articles - vain memories - souvenirs of work I have enjoyed.
About work at ITT / Alcatel
Press Clippings: these are the saner
ones. The experience of dealing with the press to show off our new
technology was a salutary one. It didn't really matter what I said when
briefing journalists, almost all of what got published was inaccurate
sensationalist rubbish that vastly exaggerated the already considerable
achievements we had made. I
learnt not to talk to the press!
Financial
Times 19-08-87
Sunday Times 23-08-87
New
Scientist 28-08-87
And the brochure page1 page2
Xerox
Typically, I can't find the
brochure I most want, for the Xerox 4030. Arguably the best desktop
printer of its day, but here are the 4010 and 4011 that I had a big
hand in. The real story of these is that in 1988 Xerox decided to pull
out of the embryonic desktop laser printer market. They couldn't
develop and market them profitably. The whole development and sales
methodology was engineered around big ticket sales, low value products
couldn't make a profit. Lyndon Haddon, Marketing Director for Rank
Xerox International, disagreed and had us set up a small tiger team to
develop small printers for the European market - strictly against Xerox
principles, which required that all product development was US led and
executed. For five years we fought a "guerrilla war" within Xerox,
developing these products and selling them globally. In 1993 Xerox
accepted they were in the desktop printer market and repatriated all
development to the US corporation.
4010 Brochure page1
page2
4011 Brochure page1
page2
It seemed as though Xerox used to give out recognition awards like
confetti, not true really, I just happened to be part of a winning team
so we got a lot of recognition, I have a fistful of these, here are a
sample few:
4030
4010
4011
Yorkshire Electricity
I haven't got souvenirs of many consultancy assignments, but at YE I
persuaded them that in order to fulfill the objectives they would need
not only to replace the billing systems (my piece of the action), but
also to redesign the content and appearance of their bills. For this we
engaged Rob
Waller of the IDU. Rob is one of the best document designers
in the world, and YE's bills set a new standard for clarity in utility
billing. In my files I found the launch brochure, the insert included
with the new type of bill to explain it:
YE Brochure page1
page2
Vanilla / JLA
What is there to say? An IT Director is not a public face in most
companies - we are the backroom boys that make the wheels go round. But
Vanilla is exceptional, so I put our primary operating company forward
for an award and to our surprise we were shortlisted in the final six.
We put on our tuxedo's and had a great night out at the award ceremony.
Most IT-Enabled Small Business (under 500
employees) Nomination - Computing Magazine
I disagree with much of the way most IT people view their work, and
riled by some rubbish published in the computer press I broke my rule
of not talking to them, and put pen to paper. These days it is much
easier - if you say it by e-mail it is often published verbatim, much
better than a journalist taking notes and then mangling the point you
were trying to make!
Computer Weekly - Profit Drives The Best In
IT - 01-08-2006
Rent-A-Quote
Having discovered that I'm willing to be quoted, and finding that what
I have to say is often controversial enough to be worth publishing, I
find that the telephone or e-mail now brings frequent requests for my
opinion or comment, a couple of samples:
Computer
Weekly - Value of IT to Business
MyCustomer.com CRM Article
Home Work Meniere's
Racquetball Sailing Dogs
Laser Printer
Secrets Contact
Links Clippings
