Collaboratory
The Collaboratory is our Social Business collaborative lab where we engage and explore an ongoing discussion, share thoughts, opinions, and ideas on Social Business.
What makes for longevity in a large company or a city?
Blog PostMy colleague Dave Gray has written a wonderfully insightful and important post about the decreasing lifespan of companies and their apparently declining productivity at scale. The piece is getting some much-deserved attention – it is not every post that Tim O’Reilly offers to turn into a book o/ – and it is great to see an idea he shared with me on the back of a bus a few weeks ago take shape as a cogent blog post.
The Structured vs. Unstructured Data Dilemma
Blog PostOne of the first things you learn at university in your first year of computer science is data normalisation. I don't know about the other people out there, but I found it such an utterly boring course. Mankind has such an obsession with categorising every single piece of data that this behaviour is crammed into the minds of naïve and unknowing computer science students, just fresh from high school.
