As Steve Jobs reminded us, technology can be a bicycle for the mind. It can be a force multiplier, helping us achieve what we could otherwise not.
However, it is too easy for technology to constrain rather than enable us. Transformations too often fall short, and new technology rarely creates the expected bottom-line benefits.
What can Victorian London teach us about avoiding this trap?
I'm a Delivery & Transformation Consultant, on a mission to help organisations understand and unwind complex, cross-functional obstacles - enabling happier staff to deliver better software to customers sooner.
My career has taken me from being a developer in the trenches to helping various organisations take pragmatic steps from a place of chaos and paralysis, to one where it becomes a little easier to see the wood for the trees.