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Re-building Globe Player – 7 ways not to lead a video-on-demand project

Re-building Globe Player – 7 ways not to lead a video-on-demand project

At last and to great success, Globe Player relaunched at Shakespeare’s Globe. If you are a cultural organisation in the throes of re-platforming your video-on-demand service, here are some insights I thought I’d share from defining, developing and delivering this project.

Read more for the 7 deadly sins when re-building a video-on-demand platform and re-designing the experience.

How to make data work – on the art of the possible through data

How to make data work – on the art of the possible through data

How can Chief Data Officers make data science ‘work’? Where should they start, how can they set their team up for success and what kind of challenges should they be anticipating?

I spoke to Piers Stobbs, Chief Data Officer at MoneySuperMarket, about how to set up data science teams for effective delivery – and serious impact.

10 speaker tips for sharing a product story as the Hero's journey

10 speaker tips for sharing a product story as the Hero's journey

Explaining how a complex product comes together to an audience can be hard. How much logic is enough logic, and when does detail become too much detail in a talk?

With my theatre director’s hat on, I’ve put together these tips around how I shaped my product story as a speaker at the product makers’ conference JAM London.

How my nephew taught me to become a better product manager

How my nephew taught me to become a better product manager

Asking why and saying ‘I don’t know’ at opportune moments is very helpful in how you build products. Put simply, it’s good to think like a four year old sometimes.

These are my five favourite questions – inspired by my four year old nephew – that helped me define the new What’s On at the V&A website.

Why sharing private data just isn’t cool anymore

Why sharing private data just isn’t cool anymore

Snapchat turns down a $2 billion cash offer from Facebook. Google makes $16.8 billion in annual revenue via our emails. Facebook buys WhatsApp at $19 billion.

We are seeing a massive shift towards a trend in private, anonymised and disappearing communication. This is a call to action.