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gimmicks will always get you in the end So Lehman Brothers are accused of managing by gimmicks, specifically – according to the BBC – an accounting “gimmick” known as Repo 105. “This is a legal accounting device that involves shifting around assets to reduce the size of a company’s balance sheet.” Picture credit: Okinawa Soba Apparently they got away with this gimmick for many years, until it Continue reading article » Picture credit: mint imperial The credit crunch is making it harder to get funds for technology investments so here is my own IT business case evaluation tool to help you make sure that your business case really has strong enough legs to stand up, before you pitch. As an interim director I have had to review hundreds of business Continue reading article » Agility is one of the great buzzwords of the day so I paused for thought when I saw this tweet from @flowchainsensei (aka Bob Marshall) ”What is *Business Agility*? It’s ability to respond to changes in your business environment: markets, competitors, regulators, tech, etc.” Picture credit: chris5aw Well that doesn’t sound like agility to me. Bob’s definition reads more Continue reading article » Much effort has been put into getting machines to pass the so-called Turing Test. But, conversely, how does a machine know it’s talking to a human? Picture credit: Loz Flowers Turing Test corollary: a human knowingly talking to a [telephone answering] machine often loses coherence and language skills, ergo machine knows human. Continue reading article » Picture credit: annachock Cyberspace is a pretty strange environment for building communities but why do some online community builders make it so hard for themselves, and prospective community members, by making such a hash of publicity and access control? The web makes it very easy for prying eyes to happen upon supposedly private gatherings, while public attractions may be Continue reading article » |
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