Having spent many years in a financial services company, I understand the culture of a highly regulated industry. We in the US regulate many industries — it is a reflection of our values. We regulate air travel because we want to fly safely. We regulate pharmaceuticals because we want our medicines to be safe. Safety is a high [...]
I’m honored to share that I made another list — this time, the most influential twitter analysts. I’m currently ranked #10 in the list of 500. I know that these are short-lived little bursts of fame. In a week someone will run a new calculation and perhaps I’ll be somewhere else on the list. So I’m honored, but [...]
Yesterday a client of mine shared with me the following link and asked for my comment. The article (from Infoworld) titled “IT snake oil: Six tech cure-alls that went bunk” describes six technologies that were oversold and under-delivered. The first was Artificial Intelligence (which struck a chord with me, as my undergraduate degree is in AI), [...]
I’m very excited about the Enterprise 2.0 conference next week, and I’m particularly excited about the “Twitter-like tools for the Enterprise” panel that I am going to moderate. I have expressed thoughts in the past about the potential for these tools to prove value and success in the enterprise. I’m now somewhat confident that microblogging/activity [...]
I started me career in technology because I’m fascinated with people! I found that technology provides me with a perch from where I can observe and understand people — or at least those people who are impacted by technology. And I’m also fascinated by how people identify themselves in groups. In my professional life, I [...]
In honor of my new blog, the good folks at Whatever sa/nv (yup, that’s the name of the company) gave me a nice gift to pass along to you. The gift — an invitation to MicroPlaza, a new and very cool Twitter tool that allows you to track the links that are shared within your Twitter [...]
In a previous post I referenced Bruce Tuckman’s team building model. I have always found it to be a useful way to describe how teams form, and indeed how people start to work together. It’s mostly remembered by the phrase “Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing” — although Bruce added another step in the process too. The basic [...]