Category: Work

  • Social Business is growing up.

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    Simon Scullion
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    Starting on a tangent… One of the beauties of the written word, particularly in digital format, is that it cannot be “worn out” in the physical sense which makes me think that overuse is the digital equivalent where we become desensitised to the significance and numb to the meaning being conveyed. At the current rate,…

  • A serious side to industry incumbents and their inability to innovate

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    This past weekend, returning home from a trip to London with friends, on a whim I bought a copy of  November’s Practical Boat Owner (PBO) magazine, looking forward to some interesting boating reading in-flight. So it turned out, but what I didn’t expect was for it to provide blogging material on the topic of industry incumbents…

  • Life’s Change Agent

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    Simon Scullion
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    This quote (emphasis mine) comes from Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address, and speaks to some core fundamentals of what for me is a big part of “Enterprise 2.0” or “social business”. It’s the hard part, the change. No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don’t want to die…

  • Uncertain, Yet Exciting Times

    Uncertain, Yet Exciting Times

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    Simon Scullion
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    Photo Credit: Ironclad HMS Warrior engine crankshaft by Elsie esq. Friend and colleague @NigelBarron earlier today passed me this post from Don Tapscott of Macrowikinomics fame: Davos: New Realities and Managing New Global Risks – Don Tapscott, which contains this inspirational line: the industrial age is finally coming to an end and to achieve economic…

  • Dilbert’s take on email attachments

    Dilbert’s take on email attachments

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    Simon Scullion
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    How do you sell collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, wikis and the rest in the face of that reasoning!!?

  • New technology – the threat to our information

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    Simon Scullion
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    I came across this great presentation on slideshare, it makes a great point regarding the real risks of embracing Web 2.0…. New technology – the threat to our information View more presentations from normanlamont.