Tag Archives: ibm

Living in a flat v. living in a hotel

All of my assignments since joining PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting over ten years ago (most of which have been with IBM of course since PwC sold their consulting business) has seen me living in hotels at least three nights most working weeks. Until my last assignment that is. For the last two and a bit years, I have been able …

13 January 2012 – 10:37 | By kyber | Posted in blog, Family Life, Work | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

IBM is hiring experienced complex systems integration project managers

IBM Global Business Services activities are growing rapidly in the UK and needs more good senior staff with experience of leading projects that involve complex systems integration. If you are interested in being considered for one of these posts, please get in touch with me. (I have a personal interest in that anyone I refer …

4 August 2010 – 10:45 | By kyber | Posted in blog | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Matrix management

I have worked with matrix management for many years now, so much so that I am surprised by others not used to its complexities and confusions. I do find it strange though in my part of IBM how I can be directly responsible for eight staff who I have never met, do not work with, …

25 July 2010 – 17:03 | By kyber | Posted in blog | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

As You Like It

Our latest trip to Stratford, courtesy of tickets from the IBM Warwick employee theatre club, was to see the oft maligned As You Like It. This is one of the few Shakespeare plays I had not seen at all. It has a reputation for being rather less substantial, implausible, and light on comedy and is …

25 July 2010 – 16:53 | By kyber | Posted in blog | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-25

For those times when someone asks a question that they could have googled: http://tinyurl.com/632hcv # More job opportunities with IBM: http://bit.ly/aTwptN # BBC News – Sweden weighs benefits of ditching cash http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10538032 # Powered by Twitter Tools

25 July 2010 – 02:08 | By kyber | Posted in tweets | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

More job opportunities with IB…

More job opportunities with IBM: http://bit.ly/aTwptN

19 July 2010 – 22:05 | By kyber | Posted in tweets, Work | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11

Key message in IBM UK this week seems to be that we really need more staff. Any consultants, architects, programmers, etc. interested? # V. impressed http://i-phone-repairs.co.uk 24hr fix their cost on fault made on org. repair – how well sort own probs is good test of a co. # Learnt a lot about IBM's Smarter …

11 July 2010 – 02:08 | By kyber | Posted in tweets | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Key message in IBM UK this wee…

Key message in IBM UK this week seems to be that we really need more staff. Any consultants, architects, programmers, etc. interested?

9 July 2010 – 11:43 | By kyber | Posted in tweets | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Resisting the iPhone 4

For the last 17 months I have been the relatively happy use of an iPhone 3G on O2. I have made extension use of the device and it has become an integral part of my life. In principle, I would prefer to use an Android phone as I am more inclined to the open standards …

7 July 2010 – 15:50 | By kyber | Posted in blog, Technology, Work | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Learnt a lot about IBM’s Smart…

Learnt a lot about IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative yesterday and an internal employee conference. Impressive stuff. http://bit.ly/a1APXo

7 July 2010 – 11:20 | By kyber | Posted in tweets | Tagged , , | Comments (0)