Is this a sign of the times? Villagers set up ultra-cheap broadband. The village of Northlew were informed by BT that if they wanted broadband they’d have to come up with £600k.
In the end they formulated a £50k solution of their own and split the running costs between 150 households.
Innovation (and execution!) alive and well, at least outside legacy organisations…
Hat tip: Tweet from @JonAkwue
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
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My next reflections video is about the difference between Big M Meetings and little m meetings. I hope you enjoy it.
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