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Inspiration

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Perfect IT

By ⋅ August 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I once met with a rather thoughtful Project Manager to catch up on things. An interesting person to talk to – it’s the cadence and style of his chat, he’s a fairly laid-back guy. I asked where his Stress comes from – he shows no visible signs of any, and it made me Ponder. We [...]

Inspiration
Business Benefits of Social Networks Exist, but …

By ⋅ April 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

When I see / read articles like this, or hear the breathless claims of vendors, pundits, and True Believers, I’ll privately chuckle to myself. All of this stuff – social networking, collaboration, and innovation – are 21st century takes on good old Knowledge Management (KM), circa 1998. Do these sound like presentations from your recent [...]

Art, with some elements of Inspiration
A Plea for Empathetic Communication

By ⋅ November 17, 2008 ⋅ One comment

It’s impossible to over-communicate Sounds a bit strong, but if you think through your real-world experiences, this shouldn’t surprise anyone. No matter how hard you try, your message will be missed by someone … Problem: It’s all their fault! Rely on Web 2.0, and … … they won’t subscribe to the RSS feed; they don’t [...]

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Facilitating Innovation: Establishing an Environment of Possibilities

By ⋅ August 22, 2008 ⋅ One comment

I’m exchanging email with someone interested in establishing a skunk works, and they are asking some very interesting questions about the nature of innovation and the ingredients for an “environment of possibilities” … … things are … [as they are] because someone already tried unsuccessful alternatives … [This] begs the question: when it is required, [...]

Inspiration, with some elements of Art
The Innovation Generation and User Interfaces

By ⋅ April 10, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

I don’t intend for all my posts about Millennials joining the workforce to be anti-youth. There are some significantly good things this new generation can bring to established organizations – ways of thinking that foster innovation and forward-progress in how organizations use information. For example, let’s talk about user interfaces (UI). I’m not an old [...]

Inspiration, with some elements of Science
BigDog: Impressive Robotics

By ⋅ March 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I don’t often post YouTube videos, but this one elicited a “wow” … I’ve only dabbled in AI-type programming, but I can appreciate the amount of computation that’s going on in real time here. The Big Dog recovers nicely from a hard shove at about 0:40, but that’s nothing compared to scrabbling on the ice [...]

Art, with some elements of Execution
My Networking CV (or, What’s In It For Me?)

By ⋅ January 26, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

As social networking sites proliferate and mature, we’re all learning how to use these interesting new resources. True, it is just a modern take on “professional networking” – purposeful connections with different special interest groups, to share ideas and lay the foundation for current or future “opportunities”. I’m involved with a couple of organizations like [...]

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Innovation That Matters – Substance Over Style

By ⋅ January 12, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

This the time of year when organizations (companies, departments, and teams) review their performance from the previous year. Breathless presentations are made to upper management and/or the Board of Directors, in late December or early January. Typically, the IT department will go through their projects and talk about how many significant chunks of work got [...]

Inspiration, with some elements of Art
Free as in … the Open Source Refrain – Improved!

By ⋅ July 23, 2005 ⋅ One comment

I’m not going to recount the history and foundations of open source software, just point out that the word “free” has long been a point of contention when folks talk about “free” software. For clarity, the open-source crowd will refer to … Free (as in Speech), meaning the user’s freedom to run, copy, distribute a [...]

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