Posts by: Richard Veryard

Are we making progress?

In a great post, @JohnQShift explains how to build a culture of learning in your business. He calls this A Matter of Life or Death (Feb 2013) In the post, John reports one of his clients observing that they had made some…

From research to practice

@danlockton is doing a survey How do actual designers use academic literature? What are the barriers you've experienced? What service would you like to see? What would be useful to you? Could academics make their work more easily applicable? Here's my answer.…

Real Criticism, The Subject Supposed to Know

"Goodbye, Anecdotes", says @Butterworthy, "The Age Of Big Data Demands Real Criticism" (AWL, January 2013). Thanks to @milouness, who comments "Important concepts here about what is knowable!".  The article tries to link Big Data with Big Questions about the Big Picture, and…

Expert Generalists and Innovative Organizations

What do the great innovators have in common? Looking at examples from Picasso to Kepler, Art Markman calls these men expert generalists. They seem to know a lot about a wide variety of topics, and their wide knowledge base supports their creativity.…

Information and Affirmation

@timrayner01 points out that so-called information-sharing is never neutral, disengaged - it is a positive act of communication. "Don’t think of what you share as information. Even if what you share is information, by sharing it, you are telling the world that…

The Calculus of Cost 2

@remembermytweet and @tetradian explore the Types of Cost (Jan 2013). Alex identifies a number of different types of cost, which as Tom points out are largely monetary costs. But what is a cost anyway? An enterprise incurs a great deal of cost.…

Managing Business Transformation

Just putting together the material for my new workshop next week. This is the third day of my Business Architecture series. The first two days cover the six business architecture viewpoints. The idea is that people can tale these separately or together.…

The Price of Fish

Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris have written a wide-ranging survey of economics, choice theory (game theory, psychology and ethics), systems theory, chaos theory, global warming and evolution. So what's all that got to do with the price of fish? One of the…

Beyond Personal Knowledge Management

@hjarche via @Cybersal says "I'll show the same thing many times and people have various interpretations of it. Sharing knowledge artifacts is not transferring knowledge." In other words, we don't actually share knowledge, what we share are documents and other artifacts that…

On Readiness

In his presentation on Enterprise Agility at the SCiO meeting yesterday, Patrick Hoverstadt introduced the concept of Yarak. In falconry, the word Yarak describes a trained hawk that is fit and in a proper condition for hunting. According to the Oxford Dictionary,…

How to make change happen in government

Steve Hilton, David Cameron's one-time policy adviser currently on mid-term sabbatical in California, has given Stanford students some frank insights into the workings of Government. The Prime Minister sometimes opposes the measures his own ministers put forward. He often finds out about…

Business Network Optimization

Some @ATKearney consultants have written an interesting article on Business Network Optimization "Anyone thinking about rationalizing a network would naturally ask whether so many nodes are really necessary. Networks are a great deal more complicated than that, and managing them requires expansive…
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