For the past few years, I have spent most of my professional time providing various IT solutions for clients within the international donor and foreign aid community. For those of you who aren’t familiar with this arena, it is comprised of organizations such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World [...]

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Last week, Google introduced Google Apps Team Edition, an interesting way for users of the Google Docs and Calendars services to work collaboratively. Team Edition allows those accessing the service from the same organization to share documents and calendars (and search across colleague’s work). Your ability to participate in your organization’s Team Edition network is [...]

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Making good software is hard. Really hard. From my experience working with vendors, enterprise software is hard to get right. Good software companies learned a while ago that allowing their customers insight into their development process helps them make better software more quickly - creating a feedback loop makes customers see that their input is [...]

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Bertrand Duperrin blogged about The McKinsey Quarterly’s Innovative management: A conversation with Gary Hamel and Lowell Bryan. It’s an eye opener on how technology and globalization are creating an environment in which enterprises are motivated (or forced) to embrace innovation and individual creativity. These then become the way corporations compete and drive value, [...]

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