Jon Udell’s – Interviews With Innovators – is currently my favorite Podcast series. Whilst Jon is not a “great” speaker his relaxed interviews are really excellent and his knowledge and insightful questions really make each one a real learning experience. I have listened to thousands of podcasts and I can definitely...
For years now I have observed that most IT staff are moving in the direction of becoming generalists whether they realize it or not. This is nicely illustrated by this post by Brian madden where he quotes Citrix: IT professionals are more and more becoming “generalists,” so it’s important that...
I am a big fan of the quick conditional formats in Excel, but I get very frustrated by the in cell bar graphs and their strange behavior – basically this means they are very unreliable as a way to visualize the real relationship between numbers in a range. They are...
I came across this diet on a few blogs (the wonderful David Pollard and Kathy Sierra) by chance and was fascinated by its simplicity: leave at least 2 hours between eating food with flavour. At least one hour after eating take some flavorless food (a glass of sugar water or a tablespoon of...
I have been worrying for a long time about how to improve the benefits delivery from investments in desktop, office and collaborative systems and it’s always bothered me how little attention Microsoft has invested in the problem until now! They have come up with a tool called the Enterprise Learning Framework,...
Over the last few years I have paid a lot of attention to improving my happiness at work and it’s certainly paid off. But more interesting has been the impact on my professional activities. I work mainly in vision and strategy for a large systems integrator, my focus is on...
Gartner have recently published a press release – Prepare Now, the 20-Hour Job Description is Coming – for a recent report that makes the case that: By 2015, a significant increase in ‘less-time’ roles will increase the total number of knowledge workers and decrease the average number of hours each Web...
There are lots of blogs reporting on Microsoft’s new Surface product but Michael has a great post where he describes a wide range of collaboration related scenarios that it could support, definitely worth a read. However I can’t help but think that Surface is a bit like Telepresence, a technology...
Brian Badden has made available a huge range of presentations and videos from his BriForum events in 2006. He plans to make the sessions from 2005 available soon and right now you can also order the 2007 sessions on DVD. However many of the 2006 sessions will still be very...
I really like this idea by Alan Lepofsky, he’s asking his readers to share things that they need to get done during their normal working days. There’s no mega business processes here, just the simple stuff that fills most of our time and is often still poorly optimised despite much...