by Tom | May 30, 2006 | Reading
Lots of interesting themes from Maister:Two items that echo Hutton’s thinking on how (non-)rational we are:Strategy and the Fat Smoker. Can we ever commit to a life-changing change programme? It takes a lot of (public) effort, as Weight Watchers...
by Tom | May 30, 2006 | Reading
Two nice representations of the world that was and the world that will be:Key words in the State of the Nation Address. Horrific to see that the key one currently is “applause”!Timeline of trends and events with some interesting looking (if no doubt...
by Tom | May 26, 2006 | Reading
I love Scott Adams’ mind. It comes over Aspergers-ish, which is probably why. Today’s blog is a classic: how should science try to eliminate religion? We know lots of the psychological tricks they use and that we could use, so why not try them?
by Tom | May 25, 2006 | Reading
You have to love an article called Japanese War Tubas. But I don’t think it is bad science. Surely its excellent science, just superseded?
by Tom | May 25, 2006 | Reading
At the end of this rant about the imprortance of numbers (I think he’s right, just it’s ranty), Mather has a quote from number 10:The plural of anecdote is not dataI had heard it differently, and I’m not sure which I prefer:Data is the antidote to...
by Tom | May 25, 2006 | Government
Even Accenture is at it, saying that the next wave of “leadingᾠgovernment agencies will deliver customerservice that builds an implicit trust between citizens and theirgovernment that goes beyond citizen satisfaction. The report also foundthat government agencies...
by Tom | May 25, 2006 | Reading
Always interesting to look at the state of the consulting industry. Healthy for employees, tricky on the profit margins, I think. Which means that it will get tricky for employees pretty soon.
by Tom | May 24, 2006 | Government
local e-Government has now gone to Angela Smith. So it isn’t dead! Or is it?
by Tom | May 19, 2006 | Reading
Demos asks which you are in terms of the future direction for public services. Hmm. I agree with bits of all three positionsTransformers – makes sense to do co-creation, so long as people see resultsLuddites – checks and balances are important, but should...
by Tom | May 19, 2006 | IT
Hamachi is genius. Install a simple client on Windows or Mac and you have a VPN that is transparent.As an example, I can now browse my Mac mini hard drive at work through a normal explorer window. Other uses? Well why not do VNC over the Hamachi network instead of...
