Archive for the 'Efficiency' Category

Propensity of SaaS adoption and the Pitfalls of Traditional Desktop Management

Monday, March 5th, 2007

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 […]

American cop language confuses the force. How wikis can help.

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Does your organization communicate effectively? Drawing from the BBC’s report on an American police force decision to stop using 10-4 and 10-20 type codewords (I was surprised to hear these are incompatible across different counties), I draw a parallel of how wikis can generate the common linguistic ground needed for purposeful communication.
The BBC reported today […]

Management 2.0

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Great post by Business Two Zero: talking about Management Styles fundementally facilitative of emergence rather than imposing of process, and structure.
However, I was pleased that the first hit was for Kathy Sierra’s piece from earlier in the year. She highlights the emerging management style, influenced by web 2.0 thinking, is more community based, […]

Workflow powers process. Process powers efficiency. Wikis need workflow.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

I took 30 mins out this afternoon to write 2 upcoming (and one, ahem, late) greetings cards to my family in the UK. (Tidbit: Sending cards is a custom in the UK far more common custom than here in Canada)
Anyhow. So I did the selections, payments etc, for the first two. I was using remind4u.com […]