I recently presented at the International SharePoint conference in London. This year, the conference held a new business-focused track and I was asked to present a session titled ‘From Business Requirements to Technical Scope’. The focus was on how to identify and align dependencies that will influence desired outcomes.
One of the books I read recently was ‘Synchronicity – The Inner Path To Leadership‘ by Joseph Jaworski. It is based around the theme that everything is connected to everything else in the world, a topic I am particularly interested in (it’s where the whole idea of Joining Dots came from). One snippet in particular [...]
Malcolm Gladwell has an article in the New Yorker, “Enron, intelligence, and the perils of too much information“, that contains an interesting paragraph (or two): …National-security expert Gregory Treverton has famously made a distinction between puzzles and mysteries. Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts are a puzzle. We can’t find him because we don’t have enough information. [...]
It has been interesting watching the SOA (service oriented architecture) vs Web 2.0 (read/write web) discussions this past week, John Hagel has perhaps the best summary. Whilst I love the overall objective of SOA, my interest has waned as the ‘experts’ have got in on the act. They seem intent on designing the perfect SOA [...]
…is an oxymoron. You can’t have knowledge without people or, to put it another way, why would you want knowledge without people? Can you imagine an organisation that contains no people? That doesn’t sell anything to anyone, or buy anything from anyone, or do anything for anyone? What will we all be doing? Wondering around [...]
