Monthly Archives: March 2003

BUILDING AN ADAPTIVE ENTERPRISE

Posted on March 9, 2003 by Dave Pollard

I subscribe to Cap Gemini’s Perspectives on Business Innovation magazine. The theme for the latest edition is The Adaptive Imperative, the need for enterprises to be agile and alert to environmental changes, almost like living creatures. While I think the … Continue reading →

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BUT IS IT ART?: ALAS, I’M NOT ALAS

Posted on March 8, 2003 by Dave Pollard

One of the things that amazes me about artists is their ability to capture so much in a few, brilliant strokes. Case in point: the sketch shown at right, one of the tiny unsigned, anonymous marginal sketches that the New … Continue reading →

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CANADA’S SHAME: POUND SEIZURE

Posted on March 7, 2003 by Dave Pollard

Few people know that public pounds are a cheap source of dogs ($6 apiece!) for research labs. In Ontario, pounds have to hold the dogs for three days, and then they can sell the stray pets to labs that use … Continue reading →

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ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL ECONOMICS: A PRIMER

Posted on March 6, 2003 by Dave Pollard

Getting comfortable with the concepts of environmental and social economics (ESE) requires reading the works of new-generation accountants, economists, tax experts, and policy makers. Not the kind of project that fills most of us with exhilaration. For those not up … Continue reading →

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PATENT, TRADEMARK REGISTERED ON

Posted on March 5, 2003 by Dave Pollard

In a surprising development, following acceptance by intellectual property authorities that ideas can be patented and everyday terms can be trademarked, a consortium of Fortune 500 companies has successfully registered and obtained a blanket patent on “common sense”, and a … Continue reading →

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WHY YOU NEVER GET ANYTHING IMPORTANT DONE

Posted on March 5, 2003 by Dave Pollard

A few years ago Stephen Covey developed the time management matrix shown at right. One of its original purposes was to show managers why nothing important ever gets done in business. But it might also be used to explain why … Continue reading →

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BLOGS IN BUSINESS: THE WEBLOG AS FILING CABINET

Posted on March 3, 2003 by Dave Pollard

One of my motivations for starting a Weblog was to explore the potential business applications of ‘blogs’. I work as a knowledge officer for a large global organization. I also belong to two consortia of knowledge management (KM) leaders of … Continue reading →

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OPEN SOURCE UTOPIA

Posted on March 2, 2003 by Dave Pollard

Part 1: Designing a Nation Recently Adam Greenfield proposed an open-source collaborative project to develop a manual for the (re-)construction of a nation. The premise is that no group of bureaucrats, military strategists and civil servants can possibly know how … Continue reading →

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FRIDAY FIVE ON LITERATURE

Posted on March 1, 2003 by Dave Pollard

My answers to this week’s literary Friday Five . Most Sloggers could easily write volumes in response to each of these questions, but in case my response provokes others to reply (these questions are kinda interesting and I’d really like … Continue reading →

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WEEKEND FUN FOR THE INTELLIGENTSIA

Posted on March 1, 2003 by Dave Pollard

It’s Saturday – time to unwind and relax and have some fun. Presented herewith for your approval are two games for people of staggering intelligence and creativity i.e. the regular readers of this blog: From the UK comes 1KBWC or … Continue reading →

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