by Tom | Jun 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
I´ll back a call for reducing fund management fees: though most of ours are underwater post recession, so it´s even more ironic. Just as the concierge agency trying to charge a percentage fee on our building costs as a finders fee, it just feels wrong that...
by Tom | Jun 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
Ian Watmore has a candid and relaxed chat to the Public Accounts Committee (you can read the uncorrected evidence; a lovely phrase). He can, because he´s leaving his post as a Permanent Secretary to join the Football Association (one suspects it is his dream...
by Tom | Jun 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
Just as the use of surgical check lists is improving surgical outcomes, the use of a knowledge management tool in GP practices is improving referral quality. Could this work in the purchasing and commercial space? What other complex areas where communication is tricky...
by Tom | Jun 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Nice idea to use collaboration with expert non-patent examiners to gather prior art. It would probably be worth patent-heavy companies to invest in someone to participate for them: most patent applications won´t be yours, so the more you can steer away from...
by Tom | Jun 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
So I think I´d still go for a Pre over an iPhone (but who knows what today´s Apple announcements will be). Multi-tasking and a keyboard just seem like no-brainers for me. Even though it isn´t simple, being able to jump between email / contacts / text...
by Tom | Jun 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
Retailers can make a 48% profit on used computer game sales. Now the publishers want a piece of it. I guess fair enough in some ways, but at the heart of it, surely a business that depends on us throwing away or keeping games that we don´t want any more has to...
