Change Capacity: What Makes Change Easy or Difficult
With a success rate for change initiatives as low as 30%, you may say there is no such thing as…
Thoughts on APIs – IB, Lime, WEX
Here are my opinions on the API's I've worked with. I recently sent them to someone and thought they'd be…
Gartner IT Symposium
I was lucky enough this week to get a complimentary pass to the Gartner IT Symposium (thanks Gartner!) where several…
The Senate, ObamaCare, the NYT, and R
The New York Times on Wednesday published an editorial by Andrew Gelman, Nate Silver and Daniel Lee on the motivations…
Interactive Map of cloud services
Appirio, a company that helps enterprise customers leverage PaaS cloud platforms such as Salesforce.com and Google Apps, put a nice…
The importance of institutional redundancy
Every system built by a single institution has points of failure that can bring the entire system down. Even in…
The intersection of change management and design thinking
When I read articles like Bruce Nussbaum’s, Life in Beta, I am more and more convinced that change management can…
The Top 25 Words of the Decade from 2000 – 2009
1. Global Warming (2000) 2. 9/11 (2001) 3. Obama (2008) 4. Bailout (2008) 5. Evacuee/refugee (2005): (Survivors of Katrina who…
If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done In Government
I found If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government to be a…
