In the early 80’s I holidayed in a lovely fishing town on one of the Balearic Islands, an archipelago of Spain. It was bliss. Quiet, peaceful days followed by a relaxed evening stroll around Town hunting for the perfect place to eat. Choosing the restaurant was as much of the experience as actually dining. Our… [Read more…]
April 6, 2012
It seems that beating the tobacco companies and those behind environmental negligence to the title of ‘Worst Company in America’ has not been an exercise in humility for Electronic Arts In a statement to Gamer web site Kontaku, EA said “We’re sure that British Petroleum, AIG, Philip Morris, and Halliburton are all relieved they… [Read more…]
April 1, 2012
According to Andrew McAfee of the MIT Centre for Digital Business in an article in MIT Sloan Management Review many companies still practice decision making by Hippo. Actually he refers to it as HPPO, the Highest Paid Persons Opinion. This resonated with me having just completed the draft for a chapter on networked decision making… [Read more…]
March 11, 2012
Paul Adams, Facebook Product Manager and former Social researcher at Google led the charge into Social Circles. Quite frankly, according to Adams, ‘Friends’ really didn’t cover it. We have family relationships, relationships with our colleagues and closer ‘besty’ friends. We also have relationships that are built during life stages (university) or around hobbies (football teams,… [Read more…]
February 13, 2012
Frank Buytendijk delivered a great keynote at 8am in Las Vegas at the TDWI conference in February 2012. He avoided the technicalities of data architectures, the rigours of data modelling and the disciplines of agile methods. Instead, over breakfast, he dipped into the world of philosophy and asked us to consider the centuries old… [Read more…]
January 19, 2012
As working practices change, many decision makers are ‘telepresent’. I have at least two customers that operate a two desk for three policy so are clearly assuming a third of their workforce are simply not in the office on any one given day. The decision makers cubicle is empty or more likely gone along with… [Read more…]
January 4, 2012
Tom’s Diner Some good friends of mine have asked me to take part in what seems like an amazing concept later this year. Rooven Pakkiri and Stuart Mcintyre of Collaboration Matters are eschewing the usual cubicle stylee stand at their next show at UC Expo on the 6th and 7th March. Instead, they intend to… [Read more…]
December 21, 2011
The couple in Ira Gershwin’s song Lets call the whole thing off lamented the way they pronounced the same words differently because it exposed class differences which might eventually be their undoing. Human communication is a funny thing. If Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers had met on Facebook then regardless of how they pronounced neither,… [Read more…]
October 15, 2011
Mention social and we immediately think about the dizzying number of people using Facebook and, as businesses, how we reach them as customers or prospective customers. This is only part of the story though. Today, my own business, a provider of information software and services, will not find it’s customers on Facebook however hard… [Read more…]
September 18, 2011
First off, let me stipulate that I absolutely support the notion that technologists of a certain age (let’s go with over 40) should regularly evaluate what they need to ‘unlearn’ in order to make way for new thinking. However, some older techniques really do stand the test of time when attempting to understand new concepts.… [Read more…]
May 4, 2012
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