Make something Misuseful

The deliberate misapplication of products and services can often be more significant than their originally intended purpose. Serendipity-based discovery is how we progress.

Service providers and product designers put a lot of effort into creating new products and services for us.

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Perfect Pitch

Want more business investment for your IT budget? Here are six quick tips to increase your chances of bringing in more business funding for the IT department.

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a cautionary tale about over-expectation and over-selling

Emperors and Sorcerers

skinner - sorcerer by blakewest on flickr

If IT had delivered every benefit promised over the past twenty years, our businesses would be so cash-rich by now that it would be positively embarrassing to read the Balance Sheets. But they are not. So can business Emperors still be seduced by technology Sorcerers?

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Systems Blindness is damaging and expensive

a cure for corporate dyslexia?

S is for 335 by AndYaDontStop on flickr

There are none so blind as those who will not see. But there are also those who simply cannot see the wood for the trees, which is why so many organizations unknowingly suffer from a severe form of corporate dyslexia: Systems Blindness.

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