Recent Posts Tagged With 'business'

• The Business Analyst: Facilitator or Designer?

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 14:48 in business, Web 2.0, tools, skills, open source, modelling, lean, O'Reilly, business analysis, process analysis, requirements analysis, perpetual beta

  Craig challenged me on the role of the BA recently.  I said that Web 2.0 is something you can only understand in practice and he posted: Having said that what do you say to the role of the professional Business analyst; the person who doesn’t use ...

• How will the corporation subvert Web 2.0?

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 13:16 in Culture, business, Web 2.0, book reviews, tools, academic, social media, wikipedia, facebook, twitter, tweet, tweets

  Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom It’s an exciting idea, the way that Web 2.0 will transform the world of work, making collaboration the norm by providing wikis, bosses opening up dialogues by posting blogs that are open for comments, replacing ...

• 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...

• 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...

• Did Web 2.0 bankrupt Iceland?

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 03:22 in mortgage, business, Web 2.0, mortgages, academic, critical thinking, hbos, credit crunch, credit crisis, martin lewis, lloyds tsb, northern rock

  Not by itself, no.  But Web 2.0, in particular the data-mashups on the comparison websites, the blogosphere and the consumer discussion boards, made the banking crisis broader and deeper than it would otherwise have been.  Or so I have just conclud...

• Book Review – Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 04:30 in Culture, business, Web 2.0, book reviews, resources, academic, social media, msc, throwing sheep in the boardroom, semanatic web, fraser and dutta

  Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom This very readable book has impeccable academic credentials:  Fraser and Dutta are on the faculty at INSEAD but they wear their scholarship lightly. They consider the effects of Web 2.0 on business and society, and th...

• Wiki vs Word

  Posted on Thursday August 13th, 2009 at 11:18 in business, Web 2.0, sharepoint, critical thinking

  I had a colleague who banged on and on and ON about wiki-documentation. His point, and it’s a valid one, was that all IT systems documents should be wiki and anyone entitled to read a systems document should be entitled to update it. He’s...

• Not a number

  Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 10:18 in business, book reviews, diary, business analysis, critical thinking, words and language

  Some years ago I was in a meeting where someone said the equivalent of: “We aim to have 80% of the balls being blue” . Me, I like to understand things, so I said: “Do you mean that each ball will be two colours, 4/5ths blue and 1/5...