I work quite a lot on mobility but I still find it difficult to get good insights into the way different companies use PDAs and other mobility solutions, so I was surprised when I came across this post by Mary Beth Raven. In the post she asks her readers: As...
Following on from my post on consumerization, which includes enterprise IT providing users with greater choice and control, I found this list of 10 ways to motivate geeks pretty interesting: 1. Geeks are curious. Let them feed their desire to learn things2. Geeks like to be self-sustaining. Let them figure...
I believe that consumerization will have a big impact on the enterprise, I for one gave up on the idea that my company would meet all my IT needs long ago, and regularly make personal investments. In general I consider my personal tools to greatly enhance my productivity, way beyond the...
I use my blog as a personal knowledge management tool. Every day I collect up 20-30 blog posts, web pages, PDF files etc to read. They are all there on my Tablet PC as different tabs in Maxthon, the following morning I read them and then for those that need...
This post provides a really useful summary of productivity tools, companies and individuals don’t put anywhere near enough focus on personal productivity, so this list provides a really good start point.
I am a big advocate of well designed workplaces, so I was interested to see this post about the Workplace Advantage activity at Microsoft. One of my favorite principles is to provide a flexible environment that the teams can change easily to suit their evolving needs and I have written...
Brian Madden describes how Citrix is evolving from being an Access company to an Application Delivery company: We want to be the single company to provide access to all applications, regardless of what type they are. For Windows client/server applications, you can use Citrix Presentation Server. For web applications, you...
I am using Excel 2007 full time now and I really like the in cell graphics and easy to use conditional formatting, I have never been a power user of Excel and it’s taken the discoverability of the ribbon based interface to help me improve in this area. I have...
I have long held the belief that successful collaboration is not so much about getting fancy technology and much more about process, culture and careful deployment and use of the technologies you do have. I was therefore pleased to see the results of a survey on collaboration that S. Ann...
Yesterday I was talking to Debbie about the sort of house we would like in the future and we concluded that we would like a house that was largely independent of external power and ideally water. This would obviously have low running costs, but would also isolate us from changes...