Business is intensely competitive these days. Under such intense pressure strategy usually breaks down into two things: do more of whatever is creating value, and […]
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Michelangelo’s approach to workflow discovery
Take any existing workflow — any people driven business process — and I expect that most of the tasks within it could best be described […]
Continue readingTaxonomies 1, Semantic Web (and Linked Data) 0
I’m not a big fan of Semantic Web{{1}}. For something that has been around for just over ten years — and which has been aggressively […]
Continue readingVacuum flasks: fulfilling a need
As seen on a plaque at Scienceworks in the House Secrets exhibit. James Dewar invented the vacuum flask in 1892 to keep laboratory gases cold. […]
Continue readingWhat I like about jet engines
Rolls-Royce{{1}} (the engineering company, not the car manufacturer) is an interesting firm. From near disaster in the 70s, when the company was on the brink […]
Continue readingBPM is not a programming challenge
Get a few beers into a group of developers these days and it’s not uncommon for the complaints to start flowing about BPM (Business Process […]
Continue readingTea bags: the unexpected
As seen on a plaque at Scienceworks in the House Secrets exhibit. A thrifty tea merchant from New York named Thomas Sullivan is credited with […]
Continue readingPenicillin: the unexpected
As seen on a plaque at Scienceworks. The penicillin mold was a pest, not a resource. Backteriologists went to great lengths to protect their bacterial […]
Continue readingWhat is the role of government in a Web 2.0 world?
What will be the role of government in a post Web 2.0 world? I doubt it’s what a lot of us predict, given society’s poor track record […]
Continue readingInformation overload
We’re drowning in information, as I’ve written about before, both in the context of Business Intelligence and Innovation (whatever that is). An interesting blog post […]
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