by Ric | February 1, 2011
Newsflash: I don’t need you to tell me what I want to buy. I already know, and anything I need is a web search away. … Go find a better business plan. One that doesn’t coopt me as your marketing R&D department. … If you want me to buy your...
by Ric | January 24, 2011
It’s time to wake up and smell the axle-grease: industrial age organizations are finely-tuned engines of efficiency and productivity—but the price is a smallness of ambition, a paucity of purpose, a terminal deficiency of daring to challenge the status quo. … On...
by Ric | January 23, 2011
The biggest challenge with deploying Sharepoint isn't that the technology isn't great but that it doesn't challenge deeply held assumptions about what it takes to run a business. It really is like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. via...
by Ric | January 21, 2011
It’s bad enough that Facebook is such a security mess, but to trust it to be my universal Internet drivers’ license? No. Just no. via www.zdnet.com ZDNet artice on the increasing spread of Facebook Connect as the defacto login/security mechanism on websites. Two big...
by Ric | December 10, 2010
nothing characterizes industrial age business like the Five P's. Business is Pedestrian (in its vanishing smallness of ambition), Predictable (in its furious obsession with the trivial), Predatory (in it's hyperaggressive selfishness), Pompous (in its...
by Ric | December 10, 2010
Simon Jenkins got at some of this in a Guardian column on Wikileaks: “Accountability can only default to disclosure. As Jefferson remarked, the press is the last best hope when democratic oversight fails.” But at the nadir the last best hope failed, too. When that...