Back to the Future - Design Insights

The 80s are back! Great Scott Marty, we’ve dialled the DeLorean up to 2017 but nothing’s changed? We all know how styles come and go and if you hold o

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• 10/05/2017

MobileTech 2017 - A Glimpse into the Future

Cucumber recently sponsored the MobileTech 2017 conference in Rotorua. It was the 5th time the event had been run and it's clear why this is becoming

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• 06/04/2017

A Leagile Strategy

Whilst embarking on a two year supply chain course at Toi-Ohomai from February this year I was presented with, in my first set of course material, two

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• 14/03/2017

Young Innovators Awards 2017

YIA was started in 2013 with one big idea: CREATING TOMORROW'S INNOVATORS In the first 3 years of YIA, there was just a single winner and that person

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• 10/03/2017

Do your Digital Hygiene first

Recently I had an initial meeting with the Chief Digital Officer in a very well-known company. In this meeting I asked for their number one challenge

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• 28/02/2017

Act at speed without risk

Last November I was asked to present at Enable 2016 in Auckland. The theme was Enabling business transformation through the IT function and was attend

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• 17/01/2017

The Journey to Servitization Part 2

In Part One we talked about the concept of servitization as an integrated product-service offering that creates additional customer value and aims to

• 03:45am
• 12/10/2016

Proof of Concept v Minimal Viable Product

The debate goes on…Proof of Concept vs. Prototype vs. Minimal Viable Product. Debate was raging in the Cucumber camp last week. We were in the midst o

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• 05/10/2016

The Journey to Servitization Part 1

It is a great time to be a customer. More and more technology is empowering customers (as I write another major update in the iPhone7 and Amazon launc

• 09:36pm
• 12/09/2016

Vive la Liberte

I don’t like Windows. There, I’ve said it. I’m a long-time .Net developer who started not too long after it was first released back in 2002. I’ve have

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• 24/08/2016

Dean Wood on joining Cucumber

Spotlight on the newest member of the Cucumber family: This month we start a new series where you get to know the member of the Cucumber family a litt

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• 02/08/2016

Creating Google Analytics goals with regular expressions (regex)

Google Analytics is an immensely powerful tool for analysing your website data. This article looks at creating a Google Analytics goal using a regular

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• 29/04/2016

2016 Digital Transformation Summit

On Monday I attended the 2016 Digital Transformation Summit at Sky City in Auckland. I'd like to share some of the key messages that resonated with me

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• 10/03/2016

How to get started with personalisation (infographic)

Personalisation is a relatively easy way to improve the performance of your website, email campaigns, and mobile applications. Heres a quick summary o

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• 08/03/2016

Google Search Changes

Google changed the design of their Search Results page again recently. In this article, I will show the changes as I am seeing them here in New Zealan

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• 23/02/2016

Personalising your Website – it’s worth it, here’s how to get started

Personalisation is a relatively easy way to improve the performance of your website, email campaigns, and mobile applications. In this article, we cov

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• 29/01/2016

Website Analytics - Why?

Let’s start with a question. Why even bother with website analytics? Firstly, you have invested in a website and possibly in Adwords, email marketing

• 11:32am
• 29/01/2016

SEO Guidelines for Content Editors

As a digital agency, we like to ensure that technical best practice is adhered to during the build of a new digital solution, however, the content wit

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• 15/12/2015

Cucumber and PGG Wrightson win at the 2015 Sitecore Experience Awards

We are excited to announce that PGG Wrightson (PGW) have won the Retail, Wholesale and Consumer Goods award at the 2015 Sitecore Experience Awards for

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• 27/11/2015

Part 3 – MongoDB and considerations for hosting it in production

In this series of blog posts I’ll talk about how we approach Sitecore® Experience Platform™ 8 production hosting at Cucumber. As this is a large topic

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• 13/11/2015