I enjoyed the presentation YY Lee gave at the Marketing and Search SIGs joint meeting last week at LinkedIn. For a description of the presentation, see my article on the event. What struck me was how much I had taken…
At the Semantic Web SIG last week David Meyer and Michael Bechauf presented cutting-edge technology from SAP on extracting context from business networks. See my article for details. David also gave a preview of StreamWork, a collaboration tool in the…
As a consultant, I earn a living in part because clients believe that I deliver best practices, but I cringe every time I hear the phrase. It strikes me as pretentious. Rarely is there just one best way to achieve…
1. Announce that globalization, new technologies, and demanding customers have fundamentally altered the world of business. 2. Quote Peter Drucker as if he agreed with your ideas. Great minds think alike. 3. Simplify all prior business ideas to caricatures. Remove…
After reading a few books on innovation, it strikes me that the demands of innovation run counter to common modes of thinking and group dynamics in ways that I did not initially realize. It’s natural to want to be right—win…
Jeremy Geelan, President of Cloud Expo, just listed this blog in his list of The Top 50 Bloggers on Cloud Computing. Thanks to my readers for contributing to this achievement. Check out the list to find other interesting blogs.
Sitting around a conference table, listening to folks from different departments discuss a business process, it often strikes me how important a role words play. So apparently simple, yet so rich and deep, words frame our thoughts in ways more…
I attended the SDForum’s Green and Clean Evening Series last week on the topic of water. The experts agreed that we face a crisis: there is not enough water for all of the uses we have for it, and a…
I’ve been reading a couple of good books on taxonomy: Darin L. Stewart’s Building Enterprise Taxonomies and Patrick Lambe’s Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness. Stewart’s book is a good introduction. Lambe’s delves deeply into the topic and has…
Processes drive business success, define the brand, and determine the bottom line. The innovative organization embraces ongoing change, recognizing that no single process improvement project will fix a process for all time. Rather, an organization must continuously improve its processes…
Jim Downey 
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