Category Archives: Innovation

TVO’s Agenda Camp: Innovation Economy.

Each of these episodes explored a swathe of gaps, which after debate, workers, industry leaders, government drew some conclusions about issues. The issues and opportunities that arose are documented on http://wiki.theagenda.tvo.org/ and there are some 45 short videos from each … Continue reading

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Toronto Wiki Tuesday mentioned in Canada’s National Post

Toronto Wiki Tuesdays got a brief mention in today’s National Post ‘‘I will be heading to Rower’s Pub to this month’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday, Toronto’s dedicated Wiki event. We’ve had some great topics, talking about how using a wiki efficiently … Continue reading

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Toronto Wiki Tuesday – March Meeting

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 … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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Value Networks Cluster, Toronto. March 23rd

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 … Continue reading

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Propensity of SaaS adoption and the Pitfalls of Traditional Desktop Management

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 … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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McMaster Word Congress on Intellectual Capital and Innovation

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 … Continue reading

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One laptop for each of 150 million children

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, … Continue reading

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