Development of new ideas, processes and practices will always be a social process, and always somewhat messy. To enable that development to happen, we need social conditions that can support it – and screen out behaviours that prevent it. Those …

A question of policy Read more »

If the enterprise is a story, what is its backstory? Where does the enterprise come from? What are its deep drivers and experiences that form the foundation for its choices in the present? This came up last night whilst watching …

If the enterprise is a story, what is its backstory? Read more »

These days my Twitter-feed has become my main source of environmental-scanning – in other words, as a means to discover what’s going on in my various areas of professional interest. As with most other Twitter users, I re-Tweet some of …

Twitter as environmental-scanning (‘A week in Tweets’) Read more »

Still doing catch-up, but here it is – another week’s-worth of tweets and links, in the usual categories, with a couple of extras, all after the usual ‘Read more…’ link:

Urgently need to do a catch-up on the ‘week in tweets’ series: I’m running almost four weeks behind, which is not good – many apologies. Usual categories and a couple of extra items, anyway, after the usual ‘Read more…’ link:

Another week gone by, running late again, but we do have the usual collection os Tweets and links. More after the ‘Read more…’ link:

Guy Kewney died this morning. One of the legends of computer-journalism. Unlike some of his colleagues such as David Tebbutt, I never knew Guy personally, so there’s really nothing I can add in that sense. Yet reading through the comments …

How to continue a legend in the days of social-media Read more »

Running a bit late this time due to self-imposed pressure to get a book complete. But it’s the same old miscellany of a week’s-worth of Tweets and links, sorted into the same old categories, preceded by the same old ‘Read …

A week in Tweets: 21-27 Mar 2010 Read more »

Another week’s collection of Tweets and links, for general amusement, interest or suchlike. Usual categories, and various comments added as usual in italics and preceded by a ‘<’ marker <like this. More after the ‘Read more…’ link, anyway.