Fountainhead
JUNE 29, 2009
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, June 29, 2009. HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments. Ive been spending some significant time analyzing new entries into the blade computing market, and poking around in the corners where the trade rags and analysts have failed to investigate.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 15, 2009
One of the most interesting issues regarding Twitter is its impact on the media and journalism. The Insight Exchange is running a lunch event Twitter’s Impact on Media & Journalism in Sydney on 23 June which promises to be extremely interesting, with insights from among others Mark Pesce , Renai Lemay , Paul Colgan and Corrie McLeod (click on the names to see pre-event interviews of the speakers by Beth Etling ) as well as in-depth discussion by all participants.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
JUNE 23, 2009
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Top 5 Reasons Why Agile Development Spurs Innovation.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JUNE 7, 2009
With high school and college graduation season in full swing, and as my son’s 18th birthday quickly approaches, it seems a fitting time to repost this blog entry I wrote for Left Brain/Right Brain back in October 2007. There was quite a bit of discussion when I first posted this, so visit the original post to read the comments too. = = == ==.
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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
JUNE 1, 2009
As a firm with deep investments in.NET development at more of a "foundation" level (e.g., Windows Workflow Foundation ), KMA has been somewhat hesitant to invest aggressively in third-party workflow solutions for SharePoint such as Nintex, AgilePoint, and K2. In the meantime, we've invested in developing a thorough understanding of three key approaches to SharePoint workflow: effectively using SharePoint's native workflows. creating SharePoint workflows with SharePoint Designer (now a free dow
Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
JUNE 1, 2009
I recently asked on Linkedin my question comparing two extreme organisations in terms of knowledge sharing processes posted here on 26/04/09 (see all the 14 responses here ). More respondents chose company B model (with knowledge sharing). A significant number went for the “it depends” option and a still significant number chose company A model (no knowledge sharing).
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Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 11, 2009
Sysomos has just released extensive research on Twitter use , filled with all sorts of fascinating information, such as 72% of Twitter users have joined since the beginning of this year, 53% of Twitterers are women, and marketers are 50 times more likely than normal people to follow over 2000 people. I am always interested in comparing countries, so I pulled out and analyzed their statistics on where Twitter users are located to calculate the proportion of the population that are use Twitter.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JUNE 30, 2009
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Social, Agile, and Transformation June Update.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JUNE 5, 2009
Over the past week or so there have been several blogs that have helped me pull together a bunch of things I’ve been trying to connect in my mind for a while. First was Harold Jarche’ s post Working Together , in which he looked at Shawn Callahan’s ideas on group work against the backdrop of Tom Haskins discussion of the Cynefin and TIMN frameworks.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
JUNE 18, 2009
I read with interest a recent post by one of my favorite bloggers, Paul Culmsee that I want to share. I especially like Paul's blog because: He and I care about some of the same things: Project Management, Governance, SharePoint, and pop culture (although I prefer Eric B & Rakim to Opeth , and I haven't yet had cause to integrate Tom Cruise into my blog's content, thematically).
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Chief Seattle Greek Blog
JUNE 28, 2009
'IT Consolidation and "Assimilation" Everyone likes to tell success stories, particularly if the success occurred under your own leadership. But we all have failures and make mistakes. Few of us like to discuss them. I am writing about my biggest failure as CTO, hoping there is a lesson here for others. I recently spoke to an IT consolidation retreat in Nashville hosted by the Center for Radical Improvement.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 22, 2009
Over the last years I have spent significant time assisting professional services firms to drive innovation. This year I am finding that the economic climate is intensifying the focus on these issues rather than pushing them to the background. The pressures that commoditize services are intensifying, local and global competition is increasing, and clients are seeking value in different forms than they have in the past.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JUNE 9, 2009
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, June 09, 2009. Maturing agile development without a maturity model.
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I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JUNE 30, 2009
Today marks the 10-year anniversary of my discharge (honorable, in case you’re wondering) from active duty as a US Army officer. It was while serving in the Army, both on active duty and later in the Army Reserves , that I was first exposed to and practiced knowledge management so it seemed fitting that I mark the date with a reflection on Army Knowledge Management.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
JUNE 9, 2009
As someone who works every day with teams, some as long-lasting as a consulting practice team and some formed and dissolved as quickly as it takes to create a presentation, I always find it interesting to read research about what makes teams succeed or fail. In the May, 2009 issue of Harvard Business Review , senior editor Diane Coutu interviewed (note: subscription or purchase required) Richard Hackman, a Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Harvard University and expert on team
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
JUNE 12, 2009
'Most people complain fervently about how electronic mail they get. My opinion: electronic mail is the best invention since sliced bread – or, at least the best since the Internet. When you scratch the surface (or “open the envelope”), most of us are probably addicted to electronic mail and its newer cousins BlackBerrys, text messaging and twitter.
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Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 18, 2009
We finally have video of my presentation on Future of the Enterprise at the TEDx event in San Francisco on May 5. The video is a nice production, very kindly done by Denis Mars to pull in the slides and Flash that supported my presentation. Read more about the TEDxAdvance event , organized by Advance San Francisco. The best description is Andrew Mager's excellent review of the evening.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JUNE 2, 2009
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, June 02, 2009. Agile Does Not Need A Maturity Model.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JUNE 9, 2009
A few days ago while re-reading some parts of The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size I tweeted the following: Is it possible that the problem isn’t too much information, but not enough info going into our subconscious to help us maintain context? When I wrote that, I was thinking of the lack of in-person human contact that comes with a heavy reliance on social media and other technology based communications.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
JUNE 4, 2009
Our firm focuses a great deal on collaboration as a way to solve business problems, and we view social media tools as a great addition/complement to the Microsoft Information Worker technologies we use and advise our clients about every day. Accordingly, several of us have accounts with such services as: Typepad (blogging). Flickr (photo sharing). Delicious (social bookmarking).
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Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 16, 2009
A new mobile app called Layar has been launched recently. It will initially only be available for Android, with the intent of getting it onto the iPhone 3G S as a priority. At this point it only functions in the Netherlands, but will be available in Germany, UK and US this year. The video below shows how it could work, giving an example of identifying vacant real estate simply by scanning around.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 9, 2009
Since Victoria and Phoebe are still in hospital, last night I snuck out to Innovation Bay ’s angel dinner. Innovation Bay has been running for five and half years, bringing together an invitation-only group to a variety of compact events. The founders Ian Gardiner, Rand Leeb-du-Toit and Phaedon Stough recently got together to reassess what they should do with the community and decided to run an ‘angel dinner’, inviting all of their speakers over the years plus some other successful entrepreneurs
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 1, 2009
Tomorrow morning I give the opening keynote at Cerner Corporation’s Leadership Forum, which brings together a select group of senior executives from hospitals, healthcare and government. Below are my slides for the presentation. Note that these are designed to accompany my speech and are not intended to be useful as a stand-alone presentation. However a few summary thoughts on the topic are presented below.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 23, 2009
New Scientist has published an interesting article titled Email patterns can predict impending doom , which reviews findings by researchers at Florida Institute of Technology. They, as many researchers, used the email logs from Enron, which have been made available for analysis by federal investigators. The key finding from the research was that the number of active email cliques, in which groups exchanged emails between each other but not outside, went from 100 to 800 a month before the collaps
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Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 5, 2009
Techcrunch has updated its analysis of the valuation of the major social networks globally, based on new usage and advertising spending figures. As last year when I did the same analysis , the most interesting part of this for me is the relative advertising spending per internet user across countries, and the very strong differences in what are sometimes quite similar economies.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 29, 2009
Graham Dawson of OzWeather fame has launched his latest iPhone app Climate Eye , which promises to be another big winner. It enables users to look up any city on the planet and find out official current weather and forecasts, including how much colder or hotter it is compared to expectations for that time of the year. It also shows average weather for any month or day of the year in each location, including temperatures and rainfall, even the likelihood of rainfall on any particular day.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 28, 2009
That’s influence for you. After The Insight Exchange ’s event Twitter’s Impact on Media & Journalism last week, the biggest front page article in The Australian’s media section today, titled Journos mastering the Twitterverse , opening with: IT'S Tuesday and I'm at a forum on the topic "Twitter's Impact on Media and Journalism", busily taking down the speeches in shorthand.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 23, 2009
Increasingly, we primarily find content through aggregated influence. In other words, influencers use Twitter, blog, Delicious, Digg, Reddit etc. to highlight the content they find most interesting. Collectively these influencers make this content highly visible, driving at times massive traffic to articles. A couple of years ago I wrote about Uncovering the structure of influence and social opinion , which drew on research on how just a handful of influencers drive the content aggregation sites
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