Last year* I was at a conference focused on technology and processes for global product development. In the hallway a representative from Lucent Technologies offered me his latest revelation:
“Ya know, sitting in all these presentations, it’s really clear to me what the problem is. It’s not network security or the limitations of current collaboration software…it’s the cultural issues. Every speaker has said that’s a problem. How do you get your people to embrace such big changes? You should do a conference on those issues.” Read more…
Is Dilbert still relevant? I stopped subscribing to my newspaper a couple years ago and thus got completely out of my former habit of reading the daily comics, so I admit, my knowledge of Dilbert is stale – I am unaware of how he has adapted his strip to the modern age. I would normally think that, well, all comic strips have an end of lifecycle, but I thought Dilbert would be able to transition from his TQM world to today’s iPad reality without too much fuss. But there have been several pieces of evidence that Dilbert’s creator, Scott Adams, may have expired his 15 minutes or jumped the shark or whatever the appropriate hip aphorism is that should be applied. Read more…
Before about 6 years ago, I used to like to tell people that I “was the only Asian person on the planet without a cell phone.” It was good for a few chuckles every once in a while. I’m not really a phone person, I don’t like talking on them for very long, and my rational was that I’m almost always with someone whose phone I could borrow if necessary.
Eventually, my friends broke me down and I got a basic flip model cell phone, which led to a blackberry, and today I have a Motorola Droid X running Android. I’m still not a phone person, but today phone calling is only a small percentage of their use, and I love the power of pocket computing that we enjoy now and the non-verbal communication efficiency (text and email).
People like to debate whether or not smart phones increase or decrease productivity. While having email and access to data that was previously desk-bound is great, the phone can also distract you at any time and break the flow of what you are doing at that moment.
I’m really not sure how this new blogsite will be be received. Are we too late to the party? We’ve built and dismantled quite a few attempts at trying to leverage these internet publishing and community building tools with limited success, will this time be the charm? It’s probably been a long time coming to construct something of this exact theme and approach, but maybe the execution will be inadequate to capture and retain people’s attention.
Perfection is the goal, excellence will be tolerated, and mediocrity not unexexpected.
Last year* I was at a conference focused on technology and processes for global product development. In the hallway a representative from Lucent Technologies offered me his latest revelation:
