Archive for the 'Innovation' Category

Toronto Wiki Tuesday - March Meeting

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Tonight at Toronto Wiki Tuesday we will begin with a quick talk about IBM’s QEDWiki, starting with a short video clip.

We’ll question how IBM have extended the concept of a wiki as a mashup of content to wiki as a mashup of data & content and how this relates to their other product suites. We’ll […]

Rogers: 1.124 mb? That will be $57.55 please.

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Rogers just credited me back the $57.55 they charged me today for just over 1 MB of data on my phone:

I didn’t have a plan for data but, ouch.
I’m not going to judge Rogers for this, but, to quote my friends:

what a cash grab..

yikes

and:

holy x*#@

And I said to customer service:

I had already told you (in […]

Wikis – Making Sense out of a House of Shards (2004)

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Wikis - Making Sense out of a House of Shards(c) Martin@Cleaver.org2 December 2004
A wiki can be a posting board, knowledge base, project tracker, photo album, and discussion forum. It’s all of these, yet none alone does it justice. Even for the most experienced, a Wiki can be infuriatingly difficult to classify!
From a linguistic perspective, the […]

Value Networks Cluster, Toronto. March 23rd

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

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 […]

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 […]

TIBCO: could these padded jackets reduce M&A insanity?

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

I worked for Arthur Andersen a few years ago, specializing in systems integration using Middleware platforms such as TIBCO, IBM WebSphere MQSeries, Vitria and SeeBeyond. Since 2001 I shifted my focus from systems integration technologies to Knowledge Management integration strategy (more on that shift in a later post), but I do keep an eye on […]

McMaster Congress: Enterprise 2.0 “ID-ah!” at Bell Systems and Technology

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

40,000 Minds are better than 1: A case analysis of idea management at Bell Canada (Weds 24 Jan, 11:30am-12)
Meaghan McKnight and Rex Lee - BELL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY
Rex and Meaghan from Bell Canada talked through some pretty exciting Enterprise 2.0 internal projects at Bell Canada. The one that got my attention the most was ID-ah!, […]

McMaster Word Congress on Intellectual Capital and Innovation

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Okay, with this, my first post of the year, I am back in the blogosphere
Back in 2003, I studied for 3 months at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management as an MBA exchange student. In that time, I swapped a course so I could study Knowledge Management at the Michael G. DeGroote’s […]

Considering Cogeco instead of Rogers

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

After reading http://www.dslreports.com/archive?c=ca I noted just how badly Rogers, my current ISP, is rated for speed. Further people really complain about Rogers so I assume they’ve pushed it further and done more extensive comparisons than me.
To pick a replacement, here’s that DSL report for Canada showing service provider speeds. I then checked the providers to […]

One laptop for each of 150 million children

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

http://www.olpctalks.com/nicholas_negroponte/negroponte_netevents.html

“And would somebody like to guess what the first English word of every kid in that picture is? Yes. Exactly. It’s Google. That’s their first English word. ”
At the end of 2007, the worldwide production of [normal] laptops, worldwide, every company that makes something that even approximates a laptop, was 47 million. [For the Laptop […]