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This week sees our Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston. I hear it's hot and humid. If you're not there in person you can see some of it online . Getting texts from the guys there. They get funnier as the night goes on. Whereas, I have just arrived
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After our Brussels summit it was time to get a bit closer to home for the BBAA conference in Brands Hatch (via Barcelona). The sun was still shining at that point. At the awards dinner the night before, I bumped into the very charismatic Richard Farleigh
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It's been a while since I had time to reflect and update my blog. Where did May go? After my US trip in April, things have been a little hectic. I spent the first week of May in SA meeting Partners, Govt officials, seeing our facilities and programs and
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Last week was a comedy of errors - without the comedy. Yet even when things are this crazy in this job (often) I can't help thinking how lucky I am to work with such a bunch of smart, funny, passionate, talented folks. If ever there two
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Just back from a week at the mothership in Seattle and what a week it was. In order to prepare appropriately for a series of demanding sessions with our senior worldwide leadership team, we felt it necessary to hit the slopes first. Just as well I got
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Day Seven of my trip to the US and my immersion in all things innovative and emerging. The downside of this is I find myself not annunciating words and rounding them instead with a "waahhhhhh" effect rather than delivering my usual crisp sentences
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As most of the country goes back to work tomorrow after the festive break, I'm embarking on the first of what will likely be many business trips. Here I am in a (compact and rather bijou) Paris hotel room reflecting on the task ahead - trying to write
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Last week saw 400+ UK Microsoft Partners and 8,000+ from around the globe descend on humid Denver, Colorado, for our Worldwide Partner Conference. WPC is a great forum to celebrate success as our fiscal year closes and we look ahead to the coming fiscal
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Firstly, apologies for neglecting my blog in recent weeks. I would like to say it is because I have been lying on a beach in the Med being fed grapes and pina coladas by Carlos, without my PC and mobile device but, alas, I have been somewhat distracted
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Bit of a milestone for my mate Mr Drury and his team of star players in Wellington, NZ, last week. Listing on the stock exchange is Xero's first step towards world domination me thinks. Warm fuzzy feeling seeing this. They are a great bunch, it's a killer
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Hello from the coast of central Vietnam - what a fab place ! Being a bit of a beach bum, this means I am in heaven. I've spent my bank holiday weekend lying on the sunbed, swimming in the South China Sea, and eating the most incredible (healthy) Asian
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PRESS RELEASE Microsoft Initiative Helping Facilitate Greater Alliances Between UK and Vietnam Software Economies Highlighted by the participation of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, a delegation of UK companies hears about Microsoft Corporation’s commitment
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Recently my job has taken me to Rotherham, Leeds, London and Cambridge. How glamorous I hear you say. The meeting with the Music Factory guys was simply inspiring. I took a look at u-xplore . Wow. Andy describes this as as a solution that "helps connect
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A recent McKinsey report highlights some of the challenges faced in China around the quality of their graduates, pointing out that their dominance around manufacturing and IT oustourcing won't necessarily mean leadership in the service industries. Poor
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George Magnus (senior economic advisor at UBS) writes in this month’s BA Business Life about skilled migrants – how the people arriving in the UK these days are often not escaping poor countries – but rather are “simply choosing to work in countries other
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