Tweet A recent discovery for me is McKinsey & Company’s new site What Matters. It is a thought provoking question and it is good to see it being tackled by McKinsey and their interesting array of authors. The things that matter change if we are considering big or small things. At this time in our [...]
Entries Tagged as 'future'
Alignment of articulated and enacted values in business
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · ideas
Tweet The issue of how well an organisation’s values align between what they say they are and what they actually do in practise was illustrated very graphically by a large software company this past week. It also shows how difficult it is to get all parts of a large organisation to act in the same [...]
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Operating systems are merely hygeine factors …
August 19th, 2010 · 4 Comments · ideas
Tweet Many people in the IT industry don’t realise that operating systems are not important to ordinary folks. We don’t want to be bothered with things that live under the surface of our devices. This is one of the reasons Apple has made such inroads in recent years, they abstract the complexity away from users [...]
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It’s real people and real communications
August 13th, 2010 · No Comments · ideas
Tweet This past week I spoke at the Sydney session of the International Customer Service Professionals (ICSP) on the topic of How can Social Media benefit our business? along with several other well known professionals (@carolskyring, @jasonealey , @CatrionaPollard). It is always interesting to see how business people – whose real jobs are something completely [...]
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Filesharing: copyright has always been a bit broken but we never noticed
August 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · future, ideas
Tweet I was chatting to someone at a party on Saturday night about copyright. The gentleman I was chatting with was strongly in favour of strict enforcement of copyright. He was advocating fining people who share copyright material online. It got me thinking. Once you consider the problem in offline terms it seems that many [...]
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Some thoughts on women, management & work #wmwc
July 29th, 2010 · No Comments · a woman in ..., ideas
Tweet I’m lucky enough to be attending the Women, Management and Work Conference in Sydney today. There is a great turnout, with many familiar names and faces from around Australia. So far there has been an impressive line-up of speakers. Yet these impressive speakers each talked about the issues around gender pay equity (which does [...]
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OMG the Onion is right about social networking – IMHO it changes nothing yet it changes everything
June 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · ideas
Tweet This post was inspired by a humorous post on The Onion, titled: “New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It: Let Someone Else Report On This Bullshit” It was shared by my friend Mark Pesce via Twitter this morning and gave me a chuckle while I was on the train. But [...]
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Marysville, bushfires, cooking and rebirth
June 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · future, ideas
Tweet This recipe was shared by my buddy Heather for an upcoming barbecue that I’m planning. The story behind this cookbook is sad but heartwarming all at once. As Heather explains: Saturday 7th February 2009, now known as Black Saturday, saw the state of Victoria devastated by uncontrollable bushfires. Many towns were wiped from the [...]
The digital revolution is not going away
June 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments · ideas
Tweet The following post is from a talk I gave at the Gov 2.0 lunch on Monday 31 May 2010 at Parliament House in Canberra. The internet is a strange beast; it is everywhere and nowhere all at once. Unlike traditional media – with its registered offices, chief editors, and boards of directors etc. – [...]
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