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JANUARY 28, 2009

Trimming the Fat I am all in favor of trimming the fat. Every company has inefficiencies and employees that aren’t adding value to the company. This exercise of fat trimming should be an ongoing exercise, quarterly. If a company larger than 200 employees is firing 10% or more of their employees they have a serious management issue. No well run company can operate efficiently with 10%+ of “fat”, and no company can expect to grow while letting go 10%+ of their staff.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 26, 2009

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Dont be afraid of SaaS, but Diligence is Required.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 18, 2009

This is actually extraordinary. Today it is possible to create an operating service that can have real market value within 24 hours. This is a fairly new phenomenon, enabled very significantly by the platforms such as widespread APIs, programming libraries, application stores, aggregated advertising, and other elements that can be combined and recombined in ways limited only by the imagination.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

JANUARY 25, 2009

This weekend, I joined some friends for a couple of beverages at a venerable bar in Philadelphia. McGillin's Olde Ale House is the oldest continually operating tavern in Philadelphia, established in 1860. We ran into some minor, annoying issues with the service, surly attitudes from the bartender and waitstaff. Nothing acute, a lot of what you'd expect at a crowded bar in an urban setting (especially in Philadelphia, where pugnacity is an art form), but it aggravated me enough to Tweet about i

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

JANUARY 16, 2009

Read just about any book on how to improve your communications skills and you will find that one of the most important aspects of interpersonal communications is the ability to listen. Unless, of course, you are reading a book about helping autistic people “learn to communicate&# , in which case it is all about trying to get them to listen, and pay attention, to you ; very rarely will those types of books try to help you, a non-autistic person, figure out how to listen to an autistic pers

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

JANUARY 12, 2009

Well, following on from my last post about Collective Wisdom, it seems that Surowiecki started something big with his book! I have received an invite to a conference in San Francisco on Collective Intelligence. Unfortunately, I won't make it (a bit too far from London!). It seems that this subject is gaining a lot of interest and success stories. I like the diagram above that is given on this conference web page.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 20, 2009

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, January 20, 2009. Call 4th Down Audibles in Agile Development, But Dont Pull The Goalie.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 5, 2009

I recently gave the keynote speech for a Sun Microsystems Partner Executive Forum, where Sun brought together the top executives from its extensive partner network for an update and relationship building session. Below is an 8 min video containing brief excerpts from my keynote, titled The Future of the Network Economy. Topics covered in the video include: * In the Depression of the 1930s there was little structural change in the economy; in the current downturn there will be massive change. * I

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

JANUARY 25, 2009

In the January 19, 2009 issue of InformationWeek magazine, there is a brief interview with Ram Charan , author of a new book, "Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty." In it, Charan discusses a model of how CIOs can re-assess their priorities give the budget pressure many are under. He divides up IT "spend" into the following categories, and makes recommendations about each: Utility expenses -- the costs of "keeping the lights on.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

JANUARY 16, 2009

Back in November ‘07 I signed up for Shelfari , the self-described “premier social network for people who love books.&# Up till that point I had been keeping a book list in my handy-dandy notebook (I’m still a bit low-tech in some areas). This was about the time I was jumping into the world of social media beyond the blog, so it seemed a reasonable thing to transfer my book list onto Shelfari.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 14, 2009

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Wednesday, January 14, 2009. NAS Network Storage for the Home and Advice for Device Manufacturers.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 5, 2009

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Monday, January 05, 2009. Agile in 2008 to Twitter, Cloud Computing and Publishing in 2009.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 4, 2009

I was interviewed last week on social trends in 2009 for a feature story in the Sunday Times magazine in Perth. In order to illustrate my ideas, I coined a term, Wealth Adaptation Syndrome , or WAS. (One of the great things about the growth of Internet content and search engines is that when you invent a phrase you can check whether anyone has ever written it before.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 29, 2009

I have unfortunately not been blogging and twittering as much as usual recently, due to being intensely busy leading towards the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum on 24 February in Sydney and the release of our Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report. So a quick update on where things stand, and a promise of some more in-depth content coming soon…. Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum is coming together extremely well.

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The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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JANUARY 20, 2009

We are in the process of revamping my keynote speaking videos. While we were intending to do this anyway, a recent trigger to bring this forward was Brightcove closing down its non-professional site. We had initially used Brightcove for my videos because of the quality, however despite YouTube’s lower quality it is more visible. You’ll see that the quality of some of the video excerpts is rather poor.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 16, 2009

Have you ever wondered what life will be like in the year 2049? Amazingly I seem to have stumbled across a timewarp. The blog p40y is being written every day in the year 2049, and each blog post appears daily 40 years earlier. Since the blog began on New Years Day 2049 (and 2009 via the timewarp) some fantastic insights into the future 40 years from now.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 12, 2009

I was recently interviewed on SkyNews about how mobile and web technologies are relevant to organizations today - the video of the interview is below. A few points that I made in the interview: * Technology should be focused on getting effective contribution and participation from staff, and building efficiencies and productivity. * Critical technologies include mobility, web 2.0, and video. * Business value includes discovering resources in the organizations, getting products to market quicker,

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 9, 2009

Here Charlie Rose interviews Leo Apotheker, co-CEO of SAP, and Andrew McAfee from Harvard Business School (who spoke at our Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum last year) about enterprise software. The interview begins at 33:00. It’s interesting that enterprise software is seen as a topic of relevance to a broad audience. Of course it should be, for many reasons, though it is usually seen as an arcane topic.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 7, 2009

At CES 2009 Blaupunkt is showing the world’s first in-dash internet car radio , powered by technology from Australian-based company miRoamer. The radio accesses the internet via Bluetooth to any mobile phone in the car which has 3G internet access. Two key issues: Parthimos said a 2GB monthly data plan would be required to power the internet radio for a month on the average drive to and from work.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

JANUARY 22, 2009

Mike Volpe from HubSpot (thanks, Drew Smith [twitter: @smith_drew] for the tip!), has a terrific blog if you're a marketer, or just interested in how people use language in marketing and interact with and consume social media. He just posted a great blog article about comparing word clouds of the Bush 2000 inauguration speech and the Obama 2008 inauguration speech.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

JANUARY 8, 2009

[ed. note: I have been absent from blogging for quite a while. As suggested in a previous post, my Dad's health declined badly in 2008, and his journey ended on 17 December 2008. We firmly believe as a family that he's in a better place, and are grateful for the outpouring of thoughts and prayers from friends and loved ones. So, 2009 represents "the new normal" and hopeful (re-)dedication on my part to this medium, in addition to the breezier style of Twitter (@mikegil).].

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

JANUARY 2, 2009

Special Online Collection: Education and Technology. Flickr Photo Download: social_media_sketch_09. If this is a "sketch", I'd love to see fully rendered diagram!!! Found via a tweet from Jim McGee.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

JANUARY 9, 2009

'The Logo of the Seattle P-I. I’m saddened today, to hear of the potential demise of the Post-Intelligencer, one of the two daily dead-tree newspapers here in Seattle, and a paper which first published in 1863, six years before Seattle incorporated as a City. The PI’s owner, Hearst Corporation, plans to put it up for sale. If it is not sold, Hearst can close it down under terms of a joint operating agreement between the PI and the Times.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

JANUARY 5, 2009

Army revises knowledge management regulation -- Defense Systems.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

JANUARY 21, 2009

The Neuroscience of Leadership.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

JANUARY 17, 2009

Free the Facts.

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

JANUARY 27, 2009

'and Loose Laptops Sink Cyber (Security). Is City-Cyber-Armageddon just around the corner? Today City governments depend upon technology – more than ever – to operate. Constituents depend upon the Internet, web, e-mail , cell phones to communicate with their government for information and services. But, gee, how secure and reliable are these systems, these networks and these communication?

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 5, 2009

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Monday, January 05, 2009. My Views on Twitter. I have to admit, but when I first heard about Twitter I thought it was a tool for the young and well connected.

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