Readers of the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams may recognize the picture at the right as the “Babel Fish” – for others, an explanation is in order. The Babel Fish is “small, yellow, leech-like, and is a universal translator which simultaneously translates from one spoken language to another. When inserted into the […]
Several weeks ago, I spent 5 days in Portland, OR, most of that time spent working and learning along side a scrappy group of people from a ~150 person manufacturing company. The topics we were wrestling with? Innovation and creative problem solving. Now, these days, particularly in the United States, two dirty words/phrases are manufacturing […]
Have you heard of CPSI? (typically pronounced sip-see) CPSI stands for The Creative Problem Solving Institute, the annual conference on Creative Problem Solving, created by the Creative Education Foundation which was founded in 1954 by Alex Osborn (the inventor of brainstorming and writer of the oft referenced, but hardly read [and hard to find] book […]
Information Architected Market Alert (IAM Alert): Google has been resting on it’s laurels (simple/streamlined search) and primary revenue stream (AdWords) for far too long, it would seem. Introduced last week at the Google I/O developer’s conference is their latest entree the “Google Wave” offering (see preview announcement of Google Wave at Google). (Note: This offering […]
Let’s face it, most enterprise systems, the systems that employees have to use EVERY DAY to do their job, are painful interfaces to use. They are barely usable, let alone elegant. Why is that? And more importantly, what can be done to FIX this seemingly inevitable problem? Is “elegance” to high a bar to ask […]
IAM Talking: Sustainably Elegant - An Interview of author Matthew May, by by Dan Keldsen [ 37 min 09 s ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThose that know me, as well as loyal readers of this blog, know that I am an ECM zealot – some say a nerd. So perhaps this post is just another ranting – but I felt compelled to reiterate myself because of certain current events. I entitle this post with a familiar quote from Charles […]
Is the legal industry ready to change their standard practices in billing, particularly given the economic climate of 2008-2009 and at least the short-term future? If they do change that model, will it least, or go back to “business as usual” when the economic smoke has cleared? Knowledge = precedent = expertise. Why not efficiency […]
