Take me to your thought-leader

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Where do you look for thought-leadership? Books, magazines, blogs or social media?

Who do you follow, or endorse? And how do you value and measure management gurus and practitioners, by their reputation, experience or vision?

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treadmill or travelator?

How does your career path look, like a treadmill or like a travelator?

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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 towards a Continue reading article »

More than one cloud in the sky

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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 (sic). Continue reading article »

Trillion Dollar Bonfire ‘live in London’

Westminster Business School, London 10th June 2009. Limited places available. Event organised by the Sociotechnical group of the British Computer Society.

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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 put forward.

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reverse pass the parcel

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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 Continue reading article »

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