Like, but No Dislike! How should we disagree?
One of the features many Social Media sites have added to their application is an ability to signify that you like the item posted. The idea is to allow other people that you know that there is a post that you approve of which may encourage them to take a look, increasing the popularity of [...]
Personal Goals and What we Can Do to Encourage them.
Much of what is written about leadership today concentrates on what the leader can do to empower a team to achieve success. Yet a part of that success is about addressing the personal needs and desires of each member of the team. Those personal needs may include non-work goals, for example Alex is attending baking [...]
Financing the BI Solution: The Corporate Architecture and Complexity of Data Links
This series is looking at the financial factors of building your BI solution. Most larger corporations today already have some form of business intelligence in place so the interest here may be more in applying these principles to upgrading your solution. Yet surprisingly there are always greenfield solutions being applied is some corner of the [...]
Delivery & Success – It is All About Setting Goals & Reaching Them!
Historically it has been shown that successful people all set themselves achievable goals and then work out a plan to succeed. Whenever it comes the time for the annual performance review, or even our new years resolutions, we often set ourselves unreachable targets then fail to monitor our progress against these. No wonder many feel [...]
Speaking: It is Our Opening Words that Count.
When we look at the skills we are born with and the ones that we learn during our youth we find that, at least in professional fields we spend more of our time communicating through the written word than we do through talking. Yet talking is perhaps our earliest skill, yet many live in fear [...]
Google Wave – A First Look
Having just completed an exciting meeting with my business partners on Saturday afternoon. I found an interesting email glaring at me from my inbox, “Your invitation to preview Google Wave“. My first thought was here was another hoax, no with a little investigation I do discover that this one is for real. You can imagine [...]
Free: How Can Free Digital Services Make Money?
Is there something missing in the on-line concept of free? There is a view that everything on-line should be free. The New York Times introduced their on-line news totally free, yet The Times (from London) actually charges an on-line subscription and there is additional benefit provided to the reader. Which is the right model? Perhaps [...]
Social Media Deployment: It is a Business Decision to Make
About a year ago on this forum I asked “Is any Business Benefit Gained by Adopting Collaborative Technologies within the Workplace?” much has changed in the intervening time which has led me to go back and look at my earlier article and comment on the changing workplace. I stated: “Research has shown that in most [...]
That D’oh! Moment
Homer Simpson has at least 3 D’oh moments in every episode as he realises that he has done something so utterly stupid that this is the only comment he can make. Well life sometimes imitates art (or perhaps art reflects truisms in life), but at the end of the day we all have our D’oh [...]
SEX Sells, but How SEXY Should I Make My Resume?
A networking colleague of mine recently recommended a number of articles, including one by Meridith Levinson entitled “Give Your Resume Sex Appeal“. I suspect that the reason David Perry sent me the article (apart from the fact that they are good) is the fact that each featured him – That is OK I sometimes do [...]
Networking for Success!
Career outlooks within IT are changing at the current time. Over the last year there has been a major change within corporate IT. Staying in work or getting a new job depend largely on having a strong network. Within your network quality is usually more important than quantity. However you may need to build a [...]
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