These days it seems that just about anything you can think of has already been done online, including the morbid topic of death related services. Apparently there is a quietly burgeoning industry of post mortem service providers that will, for an...
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It is not information overload, it is information gluttony
Clay Shirky said once that it wasn’t information overload, but filter failure. Although he is right, I think there is even an bigger issue than just failing filters. It is the endless need of people nowadays to consume more data. Since we have the...
Read moreThe Ninth Type Of Deadly Waste
Even with the troubles of product defects at Toyota, the Lean methodology derived from the Toyota Production System is still valid. The simple fact is that Toyota has strayed from their own path and ventured into the world of mass production ways of...
Read moreWeekly digest of week 7 2010
This week: smart people click less, introduction of the social connector in Microsoft Outlook, which is useful since social networkers love email and the BBC news boss is clear: use social media or find a new job. Film director says Southwest...
Read moreWhat would Google CRM look like?
A few years ago, when I was working for SAP, I posed a question to my team: "If Google were to launch a CRM solution, what would it look like and how would SAP respond both tactically and strategically"? I mocked up some fictitious "Google CRM"...
Read moreHere have something you don't want
Imagine you are invited to a party of one of your best friends and your friend decided there should be a one-size-fits-all solution for the drinks: a Bloody Mary. Everybody who visits the party has to drink it, there is nothing else, not even...
Read moreTo the movies
Dutch local government is a lot like the movies. It makes you laugh, cry, scream, hold your breath, yawn. I live in Rotterdam, and have seen a lot of movies from the City recently. I applied for a car parking permit, building permit and a bicycle...
Read moreTo search or to find? That is the question
There's more information on the Internet than one could apprehend in a hundred lifetimes, and it's growing too - and (most of the times) kept up-to-date. Different organisations, places and networks holding that information make it hard to get it...
Read moreWhat's new about cloud security?
I'm being asked quite a lot at the moment about cloud security. Is it possible to secure the cloud, is there anything different about cloud security? I believe that about 70% of cloud security is just good security and you would need to do it...
Read moreWeekly digest of week 6 2010
In this week’s digest: There is a new younger generation: the iGeneration, schools shouldn’t block social network sites, we all know benefits of SaaS, but are there more benefits than just more low costs. And if you have been buzzing about Google...
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