Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
Google Doesn”t Get Platforms. What Doesn”t Your Company Get? by Elisa Gabbert on WordStream Quote: One could, if one was a Google hater, misconstrue this message as evidence of Google sucking as a company, being doomed to fail. But that would be the wrong way to read it. Yegge isn’t saying that Google is clueless [...]
On Accountability and The Initiative to Learn by Amber Naslund on Brass Tack Thinking Quote: But what we need are more people with the initiative and the moxie to seek out that information, to improve the information that’s out there, to make the effort to learn it rather than just regurgitate it, to rethink it, [...]
Why Your New Process Is A Waste of Time. And Might Just Kill Your Company….by Andy Porter on Fistful of Talent Quote: Processes often replace dialogue. A smart guy once told me never to introduce any process that replaces an actual conversation. Yes, a process can make your work more efficient but most real insights [...]
Enterprise social networking sucks the social out of ‘social’ by Linda Tucci onTotalCIO Quote: …the problem won’t be the technology, he said, but in selling employees on the idea of an enterprise-wide social forum. Not only are the various operations of the bank siloed off from each other, but there also are silos within silos. [...]
Rethinking Measurement by Jamie Notter Quote: …rethinking your metrics is probably a GREAT way to start changing some trajectories. Measure different things, and at different intervals, with the intention of actually learning more about your system and how it operates. That can lead to some behavior that changes trajectories. You won’t know the answer when [...]
Your attention please by Jason F on 37signals Quote: The greatest things you make and do are the ones that get your full attention. It’s helpful to take an inventory of what you’re doing and then ask yourself where you’re spending your best attention. You can fill your time, but you have to spend your [...]
The IT Reformation and the Splinternet (Part 1), by Frank Johnson | Hub Designs Magazine Quote: Progressive CIOs and thought leaders aren’t clamoring for IT to re-assert its “rightful” authoritative control. Instead, they’re advocating that IT work proactively with business users, to address their need for faster, more flexible and more innovative solutions. Are CIOs [...]
Dump the SLA. Service expectations matter more by Rodrigo Flores GigaOm Cloud Computing News Quote: To improve SLAs we need to work on two questions. First, what are the operational expectations I should have in terms of reliability, availability, performance, security? … Therefore, specific operational expectations are very important to determine the suitability of the [...]
Consumers and creators by Seth Godin Quote: And now of course, when it’s easy to have a blog, or an Youtube account or to push your ideas to the world through social media, the ratio might be 100:1. For every person who sells on Etsy, there are a hundred buyers. For every person who actively [...]
Standard & Poor’s Downgrade: How Debt Has Defined Human History by David Graeber on Speakeasy – WSJ Quote: Instead of setting up great overarching institutions designed to protect debtors, we created institutions like the S&P or IMF, essentially, designed instead to protect creditors. It has become increasingly apparent that the system simply doesn’t work. As [...]
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