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The Business Analyst's Blog

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Thinking about it.... a Business Analyst's blog: Resources, tools, thoughts, ideas, rambles and the occasional rant

• Added on: Sep 5th, 2008
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: Ben Warsop
• Listed in: Software Business
• Tags: software development business strategy business analysis business analyst systems analysis systems design

Recent Posts

• Tap Tap

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 17:53 in diary, typing, word processing, touch typing

  I was taught to type at school on an Imperial with painted out keys. As a result I can touch-type, though I am nowhere near as accurate as I used to be. It can be fun though: if someone interrupts me when I’m on a roll, I find myself gazing pol...

• Selling collaboration services within an organisation

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 01:21 in business, Web 2.0, resources, social media, sharepoint, business analysis, strategic management, solutioning, soft is hard

  Selling collaboration services and development services within an organization? – Art Gelwicks recently posted this as a question in the SharePoint Users Group on LinkedIn, and I found myself writing more than would fit in a discussion forum. S...

• Book Review: WorldCom ‘Extraordinary Circumstances’ by Cynthia Cooper

  Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 19:46 in Culture, book reviews, Fraud, corporate fraud, enron, strategic management, worldcom, bernard ebbers, cynthia cooper, bernie ebbers, ebbers, scot sullivan

  Extraordinary Circumstances I’ve wondered for a while why there are over half a dozen books about the collapse of Enron, but only two about WorldCom. Maybe it was because Enron happened first.  Maybe it was because Enron disappeared but WorldC...

• Include me out

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 00:38 in diary, tools, critical thinking, simple isn't easy

  It’s not always obvious how our tools can distort our methods. A colleague who was co-ordinating a social event recently sent out an email asking us to say what kind of food we’d prefer by using the voting buttons in our reply.  The c...

• I guess you gotta be here

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 02:00 in business, Web 2.0, social media, twitter, The Word, critical thinking, trafigura, stephen gately, simple isn't easy, soft is hard, jan moir, la petite anglaise

  It’s pretty easy to understand Web 2.0 intellectually, but to really get it, you’ve gotta be there.  Here.  All sorts of things get missed when decisions are based on assumptions that are intellectual constructs, not built out of practi...

• How to improve your writing – 2

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 14:35 in skills, critical thinking, words and language

  This the second of my occasional posts on writing simply and clearly, and here we consider how to tidy up a piece of text once you’ve got something written down. Examples are drawn from How to improve your writing 1 – the first part of t...

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