August 2008 Archives

I attended a webinar by Marty Cagan of the Silicon Valley Product Group, where he discussed some a top ten elements from his new book, "Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love."

"It's official: The average knowledge worker has the attention span of a sparrow." But the solution isn't through technology alone.

Knowledge management has been interesting to pharmaceutical companies for a long time. In the 1990's Monsanto and Novartis were well-known for their efforts at taking advantage of the intelligence of their people to come up with the next great innovation.

The US Army has a set of Knowledge Management Principles and an accompanying paper (pdf) that describes the details. Their principles are grouped into four dimensions and resonate nicely.

Andrew Meyer has created the Project Management Excuse List. Very entertaining.

Tom Humbarger gave us some musings about similarities between Community Managers and Quarterbacks.

Oh, pretty. Marcel Salathé has created a java applet that builds a network of your blog (or any other website) based on the HTML.

One of my colleagues in marketing pointed to the new Google Insights service that helps you analyze the search terms people are using at Google.

Jens Poder has a great piece on productivity / multi tasking, "Stop doing half-actions."

"Why Professor Johnny Can't Read: Understanding the Net Generation's Texts" plays on the 1955 classic Why Johnny Can't Read and essentially suggests that educators need to open their minds to the world of the digital natives.

The TOC Thinkers blog is in the middle of a series of articles on management and Theory of Constraints by Bryan Logan. The whole set are interesting (and long), but the 4th entry has a quote that amazes me every time I see it.

It's amazing to me that smartphones sold today cannot play YouTube (and other) videos and multimedia files. Why in the world should I be limited? Here is what I found to make Windows Mobile 6 work.

A few people have mentioned the McKinsey survey report on "Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise: McKinsey Global Survey Results." The thing I found most interesting was the list of barriers to implementation.

Johanna Rothman has a podcast on "How Many Emergency Projects Do You Have?" in which she answer that question for a project manager. My thought was that this thinking is endemic to business. And that the behavior usually demonstrates the exact wrong answer.

James Robertson of StepTwo posted his slides for a recent presentation entitled, "Ten tips for succeeding at collaboration."