Currently on my mind

Gamification is a word I hear all around currently, and I like it. For me personally taking everything far too serious gamification is a great tool to stay in balance with my stress. Hopefully it will help me last a few more years :-). In services I use I also like gamification, who doesn't want a fun user experience showing there is some thinking and depth behind. Fun doesn't mean non-professional as it used to when I was a kid - meeting greyish robot-like-people at the bank or watching the news. But what about your own company, could it gain from introducing a little more gamification? Will it make people more engaged and involved? Currently I hear about several companies introducing loyalty programs for their employees. As an employee you will earn loyalty points based on your actions and your result (I assume it's based on your team/group result so it doesn't make a nursery for individualism on behalf of creating together). I guess it will be used both as...

      We all start there, with the famous Monolith Architecture. Why? Because it’s easy, it’s fast, it suits our needs just fine. Remember the first rule when distributing your systems – “Do NOT distribute your systems”, until you need it, then “Do NOT distribute your systems”, unless you really really really need it. So the Monolith is the perfect start for any start-up and can suit your need for a very long time, potentially forever.   So why bother understanding what Microservices is all about? There might come a day, when you feel you grow out of your Monolith. The size of your organization has grown quite a lot, your dev department is getting bigger, perhaps dev centers separated geographically. All you know is that growth is the only thing that will stay stable for the near future. Sooner or later I think you will start to see the typical signs of you outgrowing your Monolith (if not – congratulations, please tell me and the world how you did it); You s...

From my welcome opening speech of Netlight Edge Conference 2015 in wonderful Alte Kongresshalle in Munich. I’m Mandus Engman, I’m Partner at Netlight, I’m a Genuine Consultant, I’m entrepreneur,  I’m a father and I’m a believer. I meet many different companies in different situations, different challenges, different opportunities. I meet the people I’m a believer in that I believe together we can make a difference. We can achieve something together. I love this day because it gives me perspective and time to reflect. Where am I; where am I heading; why am I doing what I do. We tend to ask ourselves and talk about “what” and “how” but so many times we’re missing the “why” – and without the “why” we’re missing the essence, the depth – what is meaningful for real. So why are we all here? I know why I am here, but why are you here today? I know by fact that we are all here by free will. It's Sunday and no one gets paid any extra to be here. So we’re not here ...

What do I bring from Netlight Edge Conference 2015? What a fantastic conference - by consultants for consultants - Alte Kongresshalle with the very cool typical 50-ties interior in combination with the Netlight boid decoration made such a great setting. On top of that put the energy, the engagement, the knowledge, the experience and professionalism of over 500 Netlight consultants and clients.   Below please find my takes from the day, based on the presentations and tracks I happened to choose. As you see below I was in the Big Data mood when making my choice of presentations. For full schedule see my previous post. Netlight Edge Conference 2015 - What is currently Edge? Welcome Speech Of course there was a spectacular welcome speech by Edge Evangelist Mandus Engman (me ;-) And if you don’t know, Edge is the Netlight word for knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing that is one fundamental cornerstone in creating together as Genuine Consultants). I spoke abou...

Finally it's time for Netlight Edge Conference 2015. Next weekend in Munich it will be a fact, hosted by our local Munich office.  I love the day since it gives me time to reflect and goes perfectly hand-in-hand with my own personal purpose of being part of creating the digital future we all live in together with other talented and passionate people - how we travel, how we communicate, how we amuse ourselves, how we grow and develop - in other words how we live our lives. This day we're spending with all of our offices and our clients, our friends - together we really make a difference. Full schedule see http://www.edge-conference.info/ Highly interesting topics of the day are Welcome Your Hosts: Sanna Cedergren, Dominik Habersack, Mandus Engman How wearable technologies and innovations will shape the future of mobile payments Jörn Leongrande, Executive Vice President Mobile Services at Wirecard AG Use of big data in the transformation of B...

Responsible Gaming Summit 2015 today and tomorrow Paf partner day - at the Åland Islands. Working together, sharing thoughts, inspiring each other. Together we will make a difference...I totally agree with Paf CEO Anders Ingves. http://news.worldcasinodirectory.com/event/paf-responsible-gaming-summit-2015-alandica-congress-center

I'm very happy to see the first pure online and technology driven company take place on the prominent list of Nasdaq Stockholm Large Gap, the back bone of Swedish industry.  It really proves that technology driven companies based on great  entrepreneurs,  engagement dedication really is the future.   Source for input below  http://www.knutsson.se/ The gaming company Betsson continues its strong growth and is now the first pure internet company to be listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm Large Cap. During the last year, Betsson’s revenue amounted to SEK 2.9 billion (rolling 12 months until September 2014), indicating a year-on-year growth that exceeds 16 percent. Betsson qualified to be upgraded to the Large Cap list January 1st, 2015 as its market capitalization has been greater than EUR 1 billion over the past two years, which is the requirement to be upgraded. “It is very gratifying that our long-term efforts are paying off. The fact that Betsson is entering ...