Unlearning old patterns of behavior is vital for innovation. Unlearning how to create documents in a program that runs on your PC is difficult. Unlearning how to email these documents as attachments is perhaps even more so. Unlearning is critical to untangling ourselves from “stone age tactics” (as I’ve recently heard emailing attachments referred to) [...]

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At work, I’ve been busily cranking away at deploying Atlassian Confluence to our firm’s internal users (a case study will be going up at wikipatterns.com within the next few weeks). One interesting aspect of Confluence is that Atlassian builds it using the agile development process - iterative releases every few weeks. Because of this, we’ve [...]

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One of my favorite things about being a management and technology consultant (besides having a touch better rating on the society scourge index than lawyers), is the exposure to a multitude of business problems, across a multitude of organizations. And by extension, I especially enjoy solving these problems with hot technology. It really is good [...]

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As I have mentioned before nothing really dusts my consulting lampshade like hot new software. To this end, I experienced the equivalent of spring cleaning during a demo of the latest release of Jive’s Clearspace product. Thanks to their excellent BD folks, I had the chance to receive an advanced walk through of what I [...]

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