Archive for November, 2005

Ricky Gervais to podcast

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 30, 2005
Filed in Fun

The Guardian reports that Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, writers and stars of the UK comedy The Office, will be publishing a weekly podcast. Ricky …

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Let’s avoid the grand unifying approach to Personal Knowledge Management

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 30, 2005
Filed in Communication

Tom Davenport relates an interesting observation about the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) by its developer, Watts Humphrey. He realized that it was taking too long for many organizations …

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Peeping into Scott Adam’s window

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 28, 2005
Filed in Fun

Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, does make me laugh. He has a blog which is just as funny and insightful as his cartoons. Worth dropping …

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Business users are set to by-pass IT departments

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 28, 2005
Filed in Anecdotes

I had lunch with Serafino De Simone at Microhelp last week. Serafino has been running his IT company since the 80’s and based on that experience …

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Making better decisions in a complex world

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —November 27, 2005
Filed in Communication

A business that’s a hedgehog could go good to great, but a business full of hedgehogs could be a disaster. At least, that’s what I’m …

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Barriers to public participation

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —November 26, 2005
Filed in Culture

This comes from yesterday’s Australian Financial Review regarding a contentious desalination plant which Sydney is planning for. The key points which the paper reported were: “Plans for …

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Welcome to the blogosphere

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —November 26, 2005
Filed in News

It’s great to see Michael Lissack join the blogosphere with his brand new blog called “He Wears His Own Glasses”. Michael Lissack lectures on business and …

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Personal Knowledge Management

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 26, 2005
Filed in Communication

In an update on Personal Knowledge Management, Dave Pollard states the case for refocusing KM efforts away from the storing stuff in a central repository and …

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One year on and an updated look and feel

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 26, 2005
Filed in News

We’ve given the Anecdote blog a face lift in celebration of its first year of blogging service. This is my third blog. My first started …

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Whole of Government Innovation CoP

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 25, 2005
Filed in Fun

Thanks to Elena (pictured here in a fetching Christmas hat) for organising the Christmas lunch today and Frank (or should I say Frank’s brother-in-law) for the …

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