Aide-Memoire
From the monthly archives: December 2008
The Global Financial Crisis (#GFC) has shown that some of our ‘greatest’ companies were no more than fraudsters at worst and incompetent at best.
This made me think about all the corporate value statements that I’ve seen over the years and what they really [...]
Over the past week I’ve travelled to Boulder CO and San Francisco meeting people for business and also taking the opportunity to meet some Twitter people IRL. It has been interesting to discuss some of the cultural differences between my [...]
Is it just me, or is there an air of desperation whenever web startups are talking to venture capitalists (VCs) at events? I’m not talking about the formal meetings with VCs, rather about those informal meetings over coffee or in the breaks.
Was interesting [...]
In the business arena social media will continue to enable the agile enterprise. Social media provides businesses with the ability to build relationships. This will continue, with many organisations using social media to assist in the area of new product development – crowdsourcing new [...]
Over the next few years we are likely to see the continued integration and convergence of devices, media and channels, with users taking technology with them wherever they go, instead of being tied down to the immovable PC at home or the office. The [...]
Social media is being woven into the fabric of our daily lives almost without us noticing. Most mainstream news sites now have user comments and voting, and they embed video that we can share.
Sites like Facebook and MySpace are going mainstream; even parents [...]
I’ve been to a lot of conferences but one of the most impressive in terms of logistics and use of social media was eLearning08.
Held at the Roundhouse at University of NSW in Sydney this conference was for RTOs (registered training organisations) [...]
In recent years the idea of good management has become somewhat unfashionable. Instead, writers and researchers have focused on leadership. This has led to a serious dearth of good management in our organisations. Thus, while managers are poncing about being ‘leaders’, our businesses and our people are suffering from plain [...]
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