Archive for the 'MBA' Category

Collusion from Canada’s Internet Service Providers?

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

In the same week, Bell and Rogers have hit the Canadian public hard, imposing limits on how we use the internet.
DSL: Not only has Bell imposed this on their own customers but also on their wholesale resellers, organisations such as Teksavvy, who they have started traffic-shaping, cutting off many of the newest services […]

Net Neutrality Canada site: taken down! (Your Internet Service Provider wants to double charge for the internet)

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) wants to double charge for the internet
Many ordinary internet users are unaware: there’s a war being fought by the net savvy for everyone’s right to get to the internet. Net Neutrality centers on the argument that:
Everyone pays for their own Internet connection.Google is paying lots of money for lots of […]

Knowledge Management revisited: Enterprise 2.0

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

Wiki promoting CIO moves to BT Global Services

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Innovators & Influencers: From Web 2.0 To Enterprise 2.0 (Digg) http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196602773
Lots of CIOs pay lip service to Enterprise 2.0, the sometimes esoteric movement toward using consumer technologies like blogs and wikis to create a more collaborative business environment. JP Rangaswami not only is driving those Web processes internally as CIO of BT Global Services, but […]

Tech Boom 2.0: Boom but no bubble?

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

The Toronto Star carried “Tech bubble 2.0: vive la différence” from DAN FOST of the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE today:

“I absolutely think we’re in a bubble, but the bubble we’re in is very different,” said Joe Kraus, Chief Executive Officer of JotSpot, a Web 2.0 [Wiki] company that provides software that businesspeople use for collaboration.
“A huge […]

Roger Martin: “Ontario could not go out of its way to devise a more business unfriendly, non-competitive taxation system”

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

http://www.gagglescape.com/index.php/site/comments/528/ :
According to [Roger] Martin, [Dean of the Rotman School of Management] - and he pulled no punches - Ontario could not go out of its way to devise a more business unfriendly, non-competitive taxation system. “Taxing businesses at high rates is just counterproductive,” says Martin.
The article also covers key steps Ontario’s policy makers can […]

Blogging as Presencing instead of Marketing

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Blogging is a high touch, low cost way of developing contacts and maintaining networks. Does it change the nature of sales? I think so. I think it alters the norm from transactional to relationship based.
As I recently commented to a client in an email:
On a blog, anyone can read what you write: your market moves […]