We’re getting into the main activity of hurricane season, and things are starting to liven up. There is activity a little less than halfway between the islands and the Cabo Verde islands, which looks favourable to develop into something to watch out for over the next couple of days or so. This is a season I have not been looking forward to for several months.
My week has been filled with working on an upcoming project; although I am behind in what I promised to do, I’m sure I’ll catch up and work on finalising a couple of projects in my new role.
Good morning from a very wet eastern Caribbean as I write this on a Monday morning in my office.
Last week was full of tying up outstanding things and preparing for the later part of the year. Yes, it really did pass that quickly!
I wanted to share a few real-world issues for those embarking on or already on the Digital Transformation journey. Off the bat, you know I don’t like the term Digital Transformation at all, but I am constrained to use it for the time being or until I come up with a better description that is accepted by the world.
I want to start this edition with a little apology. Last week, on Tuesday, you would have received an email from the newsletter list that I have been running on and off for a few years now in a different format than I have been doing previously. This was a test to see how the newsletter platform would operate and also to get something more regularly out of the drafts folder and into mailboxes.
It would be an understatement to say that last week was a quiet news week. I’m not going to get political here, although I do have my views that I would be happy to discuss on a one-to-one basis, but I will say that I’m especially interested in the tech angle and how tech is a much bigger part of political and social discourse. And being a bigger part of that automatically means that it has a much bigger responsibility.
I just completed two full weeks of working with my new employer. I have a great deal of flexibility and responsibility, and I’m quite happy with my current position.
I’ve been deep into SharePoint, working on a project with a client, and despite it being a good platform for some basics that many businesses could really take advantage of, the automation system of Power Automate is a half-baked, Kafkaesque system. It doesn’t seem to follow any norms or programming standards and just makes things up for you to debug.