Sigurd Rinde

by: Sigurd Rinde

We all take deadlines for granted. They're annoying of course, but unquestionable and untouchable.

Forget that. Deadlines are bad, foolish and in most cases basically counterproductive. And there are better ways.

by: Sigurd Rinde

Or why the situation is not about Black Swans, it's about Plain Geese.

by: Sigurd Rinde

"Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to help an organisation define and measure progress toward organisational goals - The act of monitoring KPIs in real-time is known as business activity monitoring (BAM)."

Usually applied to individuals, but why not one that can be applied to the organisation proper?

by: Sigurd Rinde

The simplest concepts often take the longest to develop.

Writing, with hindsight, seems to be a stupendous simple concept, still it came into being very, very late in the history of mankind going through three distinct phases (so far): From very complicated and inflexible towards relatively simple and thoroughly flexible.

by: Sigurd Rinde

“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”

Roughly translated to business and IT it would be:

"Give a man IT applications; you have made him profitable for today. Enable a man to change his ways; and you have given him the potential to profit for a lifetime."

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All the brouhaha over Demo vs. TC50 makes me wonder...

This week we'll be urged by the blogosophere led by the Michaels and Roberts to check out and test 122 new companies and their products.

Add the daily suggestions in twitter and the hundreds of feeds that one sifts through each day it becomes a full time job.

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"Toilets are necessary but not sufficient for success in the telecommunication industry"

Succinctly delivered by Kjell Nordström of Funky Business fame.

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Drive a hybrid. Buy carbon-dioxide offset points when flying. Use the bike. Things you and I can do.

Renewable energy. R&D funding. Taxes on fuel. Tax rebates. Stuff our governments can do.

All good, all important.

Then I read Robert's post about the trend of VCs leaving the computer world and embracing environmentalism - investing in energy saving technologies and the like.

by: Sigurd Rinde

We ask questions when we want to make the world better.

Like when we want to use less resources, become better, earn more money - or when we want to help a customer to do any or all of the above and thus be able to deliver a product or service.

The software designer asks the questions of the customer and creates a product to deliver an answer.