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picture credit: xiaming Many organizations suffer from undiagnosed premature evaluation. Decisions are made without adequate information, leading to unexpected costs and disappointment. We could mitigate the risk of premature evaluation by adding a new sign-off requirement to the business case for all new initiatives: a qualifying level of confidence in the quality of information supporting the proposal. picture credit: wakalani Twitter recently made a mess for some subscribers, when it attempted to purge spammers and scammers from followlists. The initative was well-motivated but had unexpected and desirable consequences as some Tweeters suddenly found themselves with massively curtailed, or completely obliterated, followerlists. My take on the situation is that it illustrates a serious challenge for users of Continue reading article » Picture credit: onlinewoman There is a danger that a poorly planned migration to so-called cloud computing will simply see organizations jump from one set of information silos into another. My favourite blood sport in recent years was to invite a well-known pioneering purveyor of hosted data services (the company name escapes me but it might rhyme with racehorse) to Continue reading article » Marshall Phelps has made billions of dollars for his employers and fundamentally changed the outlook of some very hard-faced businesses along the way. Burning The Ships describes how Phelps took the lessons he learned making a fortune for IBM and repeated the trick for Bill Gates at Microsoft. Readers of this book get a no-holds barred perspective of Marshall’s magic Continue reading article » Picture credit: h.koppdelaney Information has played a vital role in the raging furore over MPs expenses. The whole thing began a few years ago, with newspaper attempts to obtain details of expenses by using the Freedom of Information Act; an initiative that did not go down well with many of our elected representatives. They [MPs] subsequently fought tooth and Continue reading article » |
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