Note: I no longer work with Helix Commerce.
Some of my readers will know me from presenting with Bill Ives at KMWorld on the topic of Blogs and Wikis. Well, Bill, Cindy and I have teamed with IBM to provide a training version for corporations and the public.
Here’s an extract from our marketing literature:
Blogs and […]
http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/trends_graph_e.html?yyz&unit=m reported Toronto weather this morning:
The funny thing is, the place I felt coldest living was in Melbourne, Australia while an MBA student.
Why? Well, our house there had practically no insulation and really poor heating.
I met Tari Akpodiete at PodCamp Toronto 2007 a couple of weeks back. Tari was giving talks about a host of things, one talk (videocast) I attended was about MindMapping and Getting Things Done. Like me, it seems that Tari also subscribes to Giveaway of the Day. But, unlike me she spotted this already and […]
Verna Allee is a leading light in the discipline of Knowledge Management, having built a solid methodology, a steady practice and tools (some open source), around the notion of Value Networks for modeling Enterprises as Living Systems.
Verna Allee and Oliver Schwabe are visiting The Toronto Value Networks Cluster http://www.vncluster.com/YYZ.htm at The Kingbridge Institute, www.kingbridgecentre.com on […]
There was another slide in Software as a Service (SaaS) for Small to Medium sized Businesses ( PDF), one that warrants a separate posting:
The story here is about business webs, and how taking one SaaS service, such as Salesforce.com can lead to adoption of another, compatible, integrated service. Salesforce.com is leading the way in its […]
2.2 Mental Models
People construct internal representations, called mental models, of the situation in the world that they want to reason about and then change those models, in ways corresponding to the ways the world can change, to try to find solutions to their problems.
[Mind in Action, p 68]
The creative process is essentially the formulation […]
I just finished listening to Software as a Service (SaaS) for SMBs
Two slides were particularly prominent for me:
This one - which talked about the propensity of a function to be served from outside the walls of the business (Yellow marking adoption this year). What struck me about this is no functions were left untouched, and […]
In http://socialwrite.com/2007/02/12/short-report-from-fastforward07/ Jevon said:
People tried on several occasions that this era is just Knowledge Management repackaged. I feel like I am missing something drastic here. The change now goes deeper, has immediate impact and is focused on PEOPLE, not knowledge. Rebuttal needs work.
“Knowledge Management” has been around since about 1988. It’s mature enough as a […]
2. Background Investigations
“It is in symbolic, visual terms that the designer ultimately realises his perceptions and experiences; and it is in the world of symbols that man lives. The symbol is thus the common language between the artist and spectator”
Brian Lawson - How Designers Think
In this chapter, we survey various texts to get some […]
In the BBC news today:
Scientists say rising temperatures are warming the polar regions faster than the rest of the planet.
One of the key questions that scientists will hope the research effort will shed new light on is the potential rise in sea level caused by melting of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.
The southern polar […]
