Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Seth's Blog: Flipping the Funnel–new ebook
Seth’s Blog: Flipping the Funnel–new ebook I’m not sure how I missed this when it first came out, but Seth Godin has put together a great piece on enabling your sales team to become evangelists for your products. THe thing I really like about it is that it goes back to first principles from the…
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Geoff Moore on the future of IT: Transaction to Interaction
Dealing_with_Darwin: Dateline Davos: The Future of the Technology Sector This is another interesting post from Geoff Moore’s blog with some of his observations from his time in Davos. I think the three items in his model are interesting, but I find the 3rd one most compelling: the move from IT being used for transactions to…
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Posts may be slow the next few days
I am off today for a 3 day leadership development class. We have to turn in all electronics at the door, so the posts may be slow in coming the next few days. I’ll try to catch up on things at night as I can. One thing that someone out there may be able to…
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I love winning free stuff!
I am a regular listener to the OnTheRun with Tablet PCs Podcast. It is one of the 25 feeds I am subscribed to in my podcatcher and it is often one of the first podcasts I listen to every Monday on the way in to work. The combination of software reviews, hardware reviews and personal…
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Upgraded to WP 2.0
Well I took the plunge over the weekend and upgraded to Word Press 2.0 (2.01 to be exact ;-). The main changes I have noticed already are the WYSIWYG post editing, out of the box controls for formatting (rather than having to add plugins) and a direct interface to post pictures from the write screen. …
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Co development – the alliance manager will be the product manager of the next decade!
CoDev 2006 – Co-Development for Business Growth: Open Innovation and Alternatives I just got back from CoDev earlier this week. It was one of the first focused PDMA conferences I have attended and it was quite good. The blend of topics discussed (from alliance frameworks to the need to innovate in teams across the value…
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I'm Back !!!
Well after what seemed like an eternity, I finally have everything back in place to be running this site. The crtical missing piece had been high speed internet access to my house, which has been installed for a week now. It took a ditch witch (and there is a reason they call those things witches),…
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Crossing the Innovation Chasm
Dealing_with_Darwin: Beyond “Innovation” This is a great post by the author of the Crossing the Chasm series of books, Geoffrey Moore. It is a really articulate view of why the ecosystem matters in bringing new innovations to market. This lines up perfectly with the idea we have been talking about at the job: global innovation…
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Blog going down again
Unfortunately, it looks like my blog will be going down again as we move from our apartment to our new house. This may be a bot longer than the outage when we moved to the temporary apartment a few months ago as getting high speed Internet service is going to require an engineering project from…