Strategy.manage.ent

Today John Robb made a thought-provoking post on Yahoo! Groups: K-Log and it should be passed along. The essay he refers to really hit home given some of the research and study I'm currently doing, and it is well worth reading. There is much good thought taking place right now on how to bring people within a business together on both emotional and intellectual levels. I think the scandals rocking corporate America have a lot to do with that. [...more]

Making Companies Human

3:48:38 PM

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A nice complement to today's thoughts on klogging and business strategy.

Weblog as the interface to a person.
Time for people. Paolo Valdemarin: Time for people. "Time for anonymous companies is over, we have all had enough, it really looks like it's time for people, time for weblogs." [Jake's Radio 'Blog]
Also this comment by Paolo:
I have had a company web site for about the last 7 years, but I have never received much feedback from it. Since I have opened my blog I'm receiving lots of messages from people all over the world. This is happening because they perceive the weblog as the interface to a person, while the company site belongs to a faceless entity, even if for some of those 7 years, behind that company web site there was only one person: me. [emphasis added]
If you start connecting the dots between the weblogs and k-logs space with the recent books such as Free Agent Nation , Bobos in Paradise, and The Rise of the Creative Class you can see the acceleration of a fundamental shift in the relation between employer and employed.
Pay attention; it will affect you.

[McGee's Musings]

See also: WebMD - Are Drug Companies Making Us Sick? | Delaware North Companies - Human Resources | Open Directory - Computers: Human -Computer Interaction: Companies | Blackstone Computing - Accelerating Applications and Making Them | UCSF - Mission Bay - Making History | Business & Human Rights: Tourism companies | Google Directory - Computers > Human -Computer Interaction > | About BLR.com - Making Compliance and Training Easier! | HCI Sites

Building Business Relationships via the Blog

3:30:49 PM

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If you read only one post today, make it this one. This post from Rick came across my aggregator and triggered my thinking. When I put it with the post from Jim and the essay from John I wound up seriously "Triangulating on Shared Knowledge".

Put Your Business Where Your Blog Is.
Just put together a few thoughts on how blogs serve as business relationship-builders. I now have a couple examples of this blog leading directly to business relationships that are playing a significant role in sales opportunities. Those relationships would not have existed but for the blog.

While leads me to a new mantra: put your business where your blog is.
[tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]

See also: Blunt Force Trauma | rebelutionary | rebelutionary | Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog | Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog | Blunt Force Trauma | Blunt Force Trauma | Blunt Force Trauma | Blunt Force Trauma | Steve Pilgrim's Radio Weblog

Printcafe Scheduler Sounds Good

2:28:52 PM

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I suspect this is the latest release of what used to be the Kerens scheduling system, based on Eli Goldratt's Theory of Constraints, but I'm not sure. However, this is telling...

"PrintFlow is an amazing new technology," said Doug Ehmann, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of The Sheridan Group, a large publication printer. "It’s fast and can consider many more constraints and options than is humanly possible. We investigated other technologies to help us with scheduling, but none could manage in real-time our complex and critical processes."
Printcafe Shows New PrintFlow, PrinterSite Internal & Logic Upgrade at Conference
[WhatTheyThink]

See also: Blunt Force Trauma | Blunt Force Trauma | Blunt Force Trauma

Radio vs. Traction -- A Personal View

1:58:26 PM

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Jim McGee asked, so I thought I'd try to find an answer.
Jim McGee asks:
Traction? How about Radio?. What more do you get than buying individual licenses for Radio which you can get for about 1/10 the cost of Traction? [ McGee's Musings]
Jim is referring to the review (quoted below) of Traction Server by Jon Udell in InfoWorld, and since I'm trying to get a little traction of my own -- developing a strategy for small to mid-size business information/KM infrastructure -- I decided to investigate it from a business perspective.
Here are the areas I thought important to consider in comparing Traction to Radio: [more...]

See also: Traction vs . Radio -- A Personal View | Blunt Force Trauma | Blunt Force Trauma | Blunt Force Trauma | Blunt Force Trauma | Blunt Force Trauma | Steve Pilgrim's Radio Weblog | Blunt Force Trauma | McGee's Musings | Roland Tanglao's Weblog: Thursday, August 01, 2002