Comments on: Musing gently about choice in the enterprise

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:16:00 +0000

Thank you great info I will certainly come back to take a look at future updates.

By: Repasos y relecturas « eme ká eme

Repasos y relecturas « eme ká eme — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:29:37 +0000

[...] online de viejos contenidos (apuntando ligeramente a modelos de negocio), y el siguiente sobre el papel de la elección en el funcionamiento de los consumidores modernos. Serios. Y si estás diseñando productos o experiencias, importantes. (Ah, y tampoco es malo éste [...]

By: Simon Edwards

Simon Edwards — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:42:38 +0000

Forgot to post the URL…oopps
http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/profiles/kraft-foods/

By: Simon Edwards

Simon Edwards — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:41:44 +0000

Wishful thinking JP? Apparently not, saw this on Apple’s site regarding Kraft Foods distributing iPhones to the Enterprise. What really surprised me though was the comment from their IT guy…“Our people decided they wanted iPhone,” says Mark Dajani, Senior Vice President of Global Information Systems. “It wasn’t one of those things IT decided for them.” This is a massive shift from current IT mindset of…’here’s your locked down, bricked up standard build PC…get on with it!’

By: Permission management is here to stay, at least for a while « flowing motion

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:53:24 +0000

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By: Jo Jordan

Jo Jordan — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:14:55 +0000

Will post rather – Monday morning!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:17:53 +0000

A company is a shared body of reputation and practice, enabling easier access to capital – the extreme example of this is the reviled “Bankers’ bonus”, where the bonus is actually commission, set at a level that means that experts in raising capital work for the shareholder/partners and not themselves. The customer’s reason to use a corporate rather than a federation is largely in terms of your ability to recover the downside (ie sue a single entity) if it goes wrong.

The flipside is that the future of larger (service) companies can only be to establish a group culture where there is common benefits from peers working together, and reinforcing capability, while taking benefit from corporate capital structures – and by persuading the members that the common and long-term good is best established by such joint endeavour.

By: links for 2009-10-03 « Unjustly

links for 2009-10-03 « Unjustly — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:21:37 +0000

[...] Musing gently about choice in the enterprise – confused of calcutta Firms exist at least partly because they serve to reduce transaction costs. They could borrow capital cheaply, obtain global reach and scale, attract and retain staff by the provision of pay and benefits. At least that was the theory; over the years those advantages have dwindled…So yes, firms are changing. Despite all that change, some things haven’t changed. Management structures exist to define and agree objectives, to prioritise activities in the context of those objectives, to allocate scarce resources to the completion of those objectives, to monitor feedback on performance and to intervene when and where appropriate, to fix problems, overcome obstacles, resolve conflicts. Maybe some of that is now changing as well…The contract of employment is under stress and will change. But not immediately. What may change sooner is the way tasks and resources meet each other: (tags: business social work workplace organization) [...]

By: Sam Watkins

Sam Watkins — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:15:03 +0000

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, over in Harvard has some interesting things to say about Millennials, Baby Boomers and Generation X. It turns out what works well for one, works for all :-D Life should be made better by technology other wise, what is the point.

I wish had was given a budget from my company to buy my tools, as it is I buy my own phone to enable me to be more productive, and an internet tablet rather than a laptop when travelling. I’m definitely a Gen Xer.

BTW, Sean, I love Gary Hamel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVX8XhiR1UY.

By: Michael Dillon

Michael Dillon — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:47:24 +0000

Lots of skilled trades require employees to own their own tools, from painters to auto mechanics. This is not a new idea. I’m glad to see that people are talking about this in the context of knowledge workers because the price point for ICT tools are now well within the means for most knowledge workers. Companies can still help employees by providing access to group discounts, and on-site tech support, and a small budget to pay for it all. But if you want or need more than the budget allows, go to it as long as you are spending your money and still producing results at work. Another bit of company support would be to provide downloadable VM images for the essential tools/services that are hard to provide via Internet access or that are required for dealing with the small percentage of information which really is highly confidential.

Another thing that we can all do to enable this to happen, is to stop distributing things in proprietary formats. Want to share a document, send it in PDF or as a link to the wiki page where the document lives. Some wikis support exporting pages as PDF to make this easy. Don’t distribute spreadsheets. Once you have the data collected, upload it to a database server, or save it as a table on a wiki page. Companies could do more to make it easy for casual use of a database server so that data doesn’t get squirreled away in spreadsheets.