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How does your career path look, like a treadmill or like a travelator? Picture credit: lars hammar For most people it’s fairly easy to tell because they are head down, covering the same ground – day in, day out. They are relentlessly driving the treadmills that power our organizations. But even those who believe that they are striding purposefully Picture credit: Bettina Tizzy Much is spoken and written about “Cloud computing” – all with grave authority, as if the term can yet be clearly defined. As with meteorological clouds, logical clouds will take a variety of different shapes and properties. So, until we develop a suitable taxonomy, ‘Cloud computing’ must remain nebulous Westminster Business School, London 10th June 2009. Limited places available. Event organised by the Sociotechnical group of the British Computer Society. Picture credit: *spud* Colin Beveridge will set out a credible, compelling vision for a new, post-IT, paradigm that is within the embrace of all stakeholders. This is thought-leadership at the leading edge and your opportunity to challenge the views
 Picture credit: fotologic These days it is so easy to quickly e-mail a difficult task to somebody else, either to share the problem or to shed it completely, rather than dealing with it ourselves. Have you ever thought how many times a day you play Reverse Pass the parcel?
I’ll bet that it’s at least once an hour, or maybe more frequently, and that for most of the time you don’t even realise when you are doing it.
I’m not talking though about that harmless, fairly untidy, childhood party game where players strip away layers of wrapping to reveal the prize. No, the ‘reverse pass the parcel’ to which I am referring is a more insidious and protracted pastime – internal e-mail copying and forwarding that adds layers of wrapping to the original packet, complicating and frustrating by turn. Can we really trust spreadsheet numbers? Are spreadsheet-based reports the eye in your mud, or the mud in your eye? Do the numbers really help you to make sense of a complex situation, or do they cloud the issues by muddying the waters even more?  Picture credit: Annie in Bezier |
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