It’s no real secret what I am doing at Microsoft although I haven’t really blogged about it much. I do plan to start in the coming weeks with some long posts about platforms, information security BPM, applying business management techniques to the information security discipline, dashboards and business intelligence etc.
Before I do that and hot [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Tenets of Effective BPM
February 28, 2008RHUL ISG Alumni Conference
February 28, 2008If you haven’t signed up for the ISG Alumni Conference you should !Whitfield Diffie is the keynote and there is a trip to Beletchley Park among other things.
Link here
The Medici Effect
February 27, 2008I rarely recommend a book before I have finished it but rarely does one come along that captivates me like the Medici Effect. The last was probably Crossing the Chasm.
The Medici Effect is a book after my own heart. It’s all about innovation and how we can develop and advance various disciplines by learning [...]
Andreas Fuchsberger Joins the Microsoft ACE Team
February 27, 2008A warm welcome to Andreas Fuchsberger who joins our team next week. Andreas lectures application security on the Royal Holloway Information Security Masters Degree and among other things participates in the ISO Security Standards process. We worked together before at ISS, in the mid-nineties he was one of my lecturers and we are delighted to [...]
Who Moved My Bar Stool
February 24, 2008I love Who Moved My Cheese. Some manager gave it out when Schwab was doing a big round of lay-offs once. I just picked up a hilarious story about Bar Stool Economics that reminded me of the book and the importance to think through change and opportunity. It’s a great five minute read and is [...]
Captching # 2
February 23, 2008Credit Mike Andrews
FaceBooks is Tiring Fast and Here’s Why
February 23, 2008So I don’t get accused of jumping on the bandwagon in months to come, I have today drawn some new conclusions about platforms and “next.0″ Internet apps. As we all watch on to see if FaceBook topples back into the blue ocean or becomes a Google, my current conclusion is that I am simply bored [...]
My Audio Book List
February 23, 2008I am going mad for Audio Books. Driving to work, 22 hour long plane rides. They are sometimes a “good enough” summary, other times an “all I really needed know anyway” type deal for me. I can get though a LOT more books with audio. In my queue at the moment are;
Freakomics
Stumbling Upon Happiness
SuperCrunchers
God is [...]
Blu-ray Celebration Will be Short Lived
February 24, 2008I had no vested interested in the battle between HD-DVD and Blu-ray but watched out of interest to study how the “techonomy” operated. More importantly I was interested in how the “techonomy” is changing. Now Blu-ray has won the battle of the physical media formats, we can look to the period (in a few short [...]
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