Posts Tagged "trust"

On ‘T&C’

When presented with someone’s ‘terms and conditions’ dialog, how often do you read through the whole thing, and only then click the ‘I have read…’ checkbox, and move on? If you did actually read it, do you truly agree to every one…

“Science, which is a belief-system”

A fascinating throw-away line in an article on the BBC website today, ‘Arizona: Naming the dead from the desert‘: The forensic scientists and I have a lot of faith in science, which is a belief system. It requires trust in officials, in…

Convergence – Symbolic, Imaginary or Real?

@Christian_BB responded to my post Does Rigour Matter? with a comment "Rigour matters when building. It matters less when trying to get people converging." I replied, "Rigour matters when building consensus. Unless you just want people to have a warm feeling of…

Dangling Conversation

@markhillary asks "When you follow company Twitter accounts, do you like being able to see who runs the account, like a named person on the profile?" I think that depends how gullible you are. When I get a letter signed by an…

Dangling Conversation

@markhillary asks "When you follow company Twitter accounts, do you like being able to see who runs the account, like a named person on the profile?" I think that depends how gullible you are. When I get a letter signed by an…

Two Dimensions of Trust

In my post Magic Quadrant or Sorting Hat, I compared Gartner's Magic Quadrant (used to classify software vendors and products) with the Hogwarts Sorting Hat (used to classify young witches and wizards). Leaders: Gryffindor Challengers: Slytherin Visionaries: Ravenclaw Niche Players: Hufflepuff Gartner's…

Sharing Trust

@CoCreatr (Bernd Nurnberger) via @VenessaMiemis blogs about #trust. "Being in business is basically about trust. Establishing and verifying trust, documenting it, so it can be shared, swiftly, without every business partner having to redo what led to the trust." What I am…

Two Dimensions of Trust

In my post Magic Quadrant or Sorting Hat, I compared Gartner's Magic Quadrant (used to classify software vendors and products) with the Hogwarts Sorting Hat (used to classify young witches and wizards). Leaders: Gryffindor Challengers: Slytherin Visionaries: Ravenclaw Niche Players: Hufflepuff Gartner's…

Sharing Trust

@CoCreatr (Bernd Nurnberger) via @VenessaMiemis blogs about #trust. "Being in business is basically about trust. Establishing and verifying trust, documenting it, so it can be shared, swiftly, without every business partner having to redo what led to the trust." What I am…

Exploring the fit between VPEC-T and Enterprise Architecture

VPEC-T Enterprise Architecture Mind Map (click to enlarge) [source: Steve Nimmons] VPEC-T is a Systems Thinking framework with 5 dimensions (Values, Policy, Events, Content and Trust). VPEC-T is useful in the context of Enterprise Architecture, particularly in terms of exploring the full…
Unruly Google and VPEC-T

Unruly Google and VPEC-T

Google has been hoist by its own petard: it seems obliged to ban its own browser from its own search engine for infringing its strict rules. Apparently the infringement resulted from some misbehaviour somewhere down the subcontract chain, unknown to Google itself…
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