I was reading a post this morning that asked the following question: More BI Packages Add Collaboration: Who Needs It? (http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/bi/231903450?cid=nl_IW_daily_2011-11-21_html) Good question. Organizations need to focus on deploying a set of collaboration tools that connect with other technology, not collaboration tools within other technologies. …
A must listen interview from Seattle’s KUOW THE CONVERSATION. Highly recommended as a new way to see science, and as an offering of hints about how the Serendipity Economy is becoming reality for scientists. Michael Nielsen is the author of "Reinventing Discovery: the Era of …
Historically, organizations were either small, tight knit communities or they were larger amalgams of communities more or less designed to achieve the organization’s goals. Although organizations may be divided into functions or lines of business, the association of employment and brand offered common ground. Even …
or Shakespeare isn’t Anonymous In light of the fun, interesting, and I think, utterly fictional Anonymous, I thought I would repost this item from my now defunct Future of Information Work blog. Be challenged, but enjoy. 4/7/2008 2:45:59 PM Shakespeare Wars I have finally finished …
Something Our Teachers Told Us Not To The night was lonely so we smoked dope to get away from the books and look at something our teachers told us not to and wait for the cool morning to fog us in and for rain— and …
Governments around the world need to start speaking and thinking in scenario planning terms and not just articulating single-minded dire forecasts. They need to do this in times of struggle and in times of prosperity. Today, for instance, "The Federal Reserve sharply downgraded its projections …
I have no issue with a company creating a better mousetrap, or a better way of rating mousetraps. In the case of Klout, and their recalculations of social influence scores, the problem is implementation, not refinement. And that brings me to some other issues with …