Disregarding BRP is like being long on subprime CDOs
Now and then. If you, as a developer and vendor of products, create a new product that has the promise of value for your customer you’re onto something. Say going back a few years starting up Facebook or creating the…
Organisational Effectiveness vs. Personal Efficiency
Wherever you turn you’ll find that Enterprise Software is on a never ending quest to increase your personal efficiency. It says so on the vendor’s site, it seeps through in discussion about User Interfaces, one is constantly reminded how good…
Elegant Organisations? Daily Simplicity? Fugetaboutit!
“Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem” Occam’s razor keeps it simple – “entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity”. Or in short form; simple is better. A basic philosophy of science – simple is better. Einstein could be a signatory…
Enterprise Software’s blind spot
A Project is a temporary activity or sequence of activities with a specific goal initiated by an issue, an idea or a request, often with multiple participants. It is usually unstructured, at least somewhat unpredictable and hence Barely Repeatable. There…
Information, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Innovation
These four concepts makes humanity move forward. They’re basic requirements for every day work as well as for Big Important Decisions, hence nothing to take lightly. Indeed, if possible to grasp, sort, handle, and model efficiently we would all be…
Thingamy with ESME points to where enterprise 2.0 is heading
Yesterday I got the “lowdown” on how Thingamy, which Sigurd Rinde describes as a “Work Processor”, has just been connected to ESME, the microsharing and collaboration platform. I believe the combination is a big step forward for Sig’s solution, as well as representing one of several approaches that signpost the direction of enterprise 2.0, or […]
Process Engine + Social Media -> Thingamy & ESME
Image by Now I’m Always Smiling via Flickr For a long while I’ve been keeping an eye on the E 2.0, collaboration and social media efforts meant for enterprise use. I have to admit to being a sceptic, still viewing such as mainly single-task tools with little or no process and mostly lacking any way […]
How not to do it – 12sprints and Chatter
More and more Enterprise Software vendors (and users) have their “aha!” moments, getting the reality that “unstructured”, Barely Repeatable Processes are immensely important. Not only happens about 60% of all work in such processes, but no proper process based IT…
No…
No container, then no content. No data context, then no meaning. No process, then no business. No presence, then no record. Words makes no sense unless they’re arranged sequentially on paper or in a text or html file, i.e. held…
Simple is always better, but harder to sell
The classic “Apologies for the long letter, I did not have time to write a short one” surely applies to development of Enterprise Software. So I’ve spent my time with Thingamy, too much some would say, exactly enough I say….
