Intro to Beacon and ARLLS Beacon Changemakers has been helping talented young East Africans into places at top African International Schools and UK Universities for over 15 years. More than just a scholarship programme, the Beacon team delivers a leadership programme to their scholars, in the hope that they will eventually lead ethical and positive…
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Every so often I start a personal project in an attempt to keep my technical skills fresh, usually solving a personal problem of some kind. Recently I’ve been working on a solution to an issue that affects me as the parent of a teenage bike racer. The problem is a simple one – finding local…
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Helping Tech Leaders Grow Through Conversation When I announced my transition into independent work in Spring 2024, one of the first people to get in touch was Martin Baker, someone I’d first worked with back in the early 2000s during my days at Epic. At the time, Martin had brought my team in to build…
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Founder Sally Burns has been running a content creation business for some years, helping female founders and experts to create beautifully crafted content for their own audiences via the LearnWorlds platform. Sally’s vision to scale this up required a learning platform that emphasises collaboration and connection over completion and content monetisation (which excludes most of…
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Numerous research studies show that effective learning in organisations comes from three areas: experiential learning (real-world tasks) making up the bulk; social learning (interactions with others) following in second place; and structured, formal education in last place and making up just a small percentage of how we learn. This is why LMS products, traditionally focussed…
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In the world of software development, the topic of end-of-life scenarios often remains overlooked and there is a stark absence of guidance or case studies to help navigate such situations effectively. This series of blog posts aims to fill this gap, drawing from my own experiences across various companies. Software End of Life Part 1:…
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In the world of software development, the topic of end-of-life scenarios often remains overlooked and there is a stark absence of guidance or case studies to help navigate such situations effectively. This series of blog posts aims to fill this gap, drawing from my own experiences across various companies. Software End of Life Part 1:…
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In the world of software development, the topic of end-of-life scenarios often remains overlooked and there is a stark absence of guidance or case studies to help navigate such situations effectively. This series of blog posts aims to fill this gap, drawing from my own experiences across various companies. Software End of Life Part 1:…
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My piece for Thrive’s AI newsletter about setting up a new AI team for the business and some of the innovations they’ll be working on through 2024. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-made-me-do-our-journey-searching-ai-team-thrivelearning-k0bpe
The final project at my last role involved extracting seven years of learner data for 80,000 learners from an LMS that was being decommissioned. The shock of our vendor’s £150,000 quote to both extract and host 3TB of learner data led me to explore a robotic process automation (RPA) solution using a low cost browser…
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