The naked CEO

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April 11th, 2007

Whilst I’m not touting myself as anything I’m not, the above title is a heads up to Luke who introduced me to the idea in a meeting today. I’ve just written a Web 2.0 report for him, and it looks like we may become a supplier / partner of sorts, to StepStone.

Anyways, the idea is that by being candid you’re more likely to gain the trust and confidence of your stakeholders, than you would if you kept everything Mum. I’ve always believed in the idea, more I guess because I see the world becoming more bottom up and less top down, but actually doing something about it is a difficult job.

I’ve been blogging on my own domain oneafrikan.com for over 4 years now (it seems like an age), so I know what it takes to write intelligently and more importantly, something that other people will find interesting…

So, after reading these two posts that Luke sent me, I’ve decided to exercise my Kung-Fu, and to get started talking about what we’re doing, because it seems that everyone I speak to about our business’ progress is actually interested, and we may actually have some important things to say about the work we do, the industry in general, and what we’re busy with.

I am worried that there will be some overlap with oneafrikan.com and this blog, so I’m going to try and keep it fairly separate. I’ll point to it so that people get the idea soon enough, but will keep things here about Technovated and what I’m thinking (I’m also going to encourage the team to blog here as well), whilst oneafrikan.com stuff will be more personal, probably some technical stuff, some African stuff, some stuff my employer can’t jibe me about , and as much good humour as I can find.

I also hope that our clients will find what we talk about here interesting, and perhaps even stimulating - I’m going to let as much into the air as prudent, and hopefully in doing that will get some industry people jabbering away too.

Anyways, let’s get started…