I know it is an HBO front but if you think about it, it relates to us.
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Open or closed – does anything online ever last?
It’s only now, a couple of weeks after the announcement, that I feel I can talk about the demise of Google Reader. Up til now, the whole thing has just been too upsetting. Reader is the site I turn to first in the day, before email or Twitter, and the one I check last asRead… Read more »
Customers Don’t Want Ads, They Want a Conversation…Just Not the Conversations You Want to Have
Fast Company just published another article discussing how customers are no longer satisfied just with good products and services or low prices – they want collaboration and conversation from brands. In another Fast Company article from January, they state that “brands, marketers believe, ought to start acting less like things and more like people, andRead… Read more »
More “not invented here” — on design thinking and Australia
When I was on my recent trip to Japan and Korea, I came across an article in the Financial Times describing Australia’s reticence in adopting design thinking in business. The article itself is a high-level summary of research done at MGSM by Dr Lars Groeger and Leanne Sobel. It’s a little chilling when you readRead… Read more »
Activities or Analytics?
“If you don’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” Like a mantra, it’s chanted over and over – but you must be measuring the right IT or you are just burning time. For an artist, which is more important – the tack hammer or the paint brush? The brush is used to create the masterpiece;Read… Read more »
Breaking news: Australian Government to appoint Government 2.0 Minister
I’ve just learnt from an inside source that the Australian Government has decided to go several steps further than the Queensland Government (who appointed an Assistant Minister for eGovernment last year), by appointing Australia’s first Government 2.0 Minister. The new Minister, who will be announced later today, will be responsible for taking forward the government’sRead… Read more »
The dream is fading fast
John Naughton: Because we’ve all bought into the techno-utopianism of the early Internet, we tend to assume that it’s always going to be open to everyone. But as more and more of the world goes online, it’s clear that we’re heading in a very different direction — towards an online world dominated by huge, primarilyRead… Read more »
CloudCheckr : Amazon Complexity Challenges Many Users
A recently released infographic from CloudCheckr (http://cloudcheckr.com/) sheds quite a bit of light on the importance of expert advice when an enterprise decides to deploy to the cloud. When AWS made Trusted Advisor free for the month of March, they took that opportunity to conduct an internal survey of their customers’ usage. CloudCheckr compared theRead… Read more »
Linking Training and Employee Development
Effective management of employees and their career development will make a happy and effective organization. A learning organization is far more effective than anyone can imagine. Great managers should have discovered that their own success as well as the success of their organization depends on their employees. Training programs, if done correctly, can help createRead… Read more »
Revealed: Robotic Jellyfish the Size of A Full Grown Man
By Kat Berry Researchers at Virginia Tech college of Engineering have revealed a stunningly lifelike autonomous robotic jellyfish the size of a full grown man. The robot is 5 foot and 7 inches long coming in at 170 pounds. And is designed to run on its own energy and to use less energy like aRead… Read more »