When I saw this piece of work by Eric Berlow and Sean Gourley of Quid who are both TED Fellows, what struck me was that by using visualisation the snapshot above had created insight from what appeared data with limited linkages. In my case what came to mind first was that, based on the various…
In the ‘age of big data’, I read Tim Cummins’ recent post, ‘Contracting as a Data Centre‘ with interest. The comparison of the contracting function as a data centre is an interesting one. The value of a company is largely made up of the value of its contracts, agreements, and relationships. As Tim points out,…
As I write this article I’m surrounded by bookshelves loaded with books. Gazing at them looking for inspiration it becomes clear that there are two categories, those such as cookery books and reference books which get used many times, and those such as modern fiction which are really one time reads. With ‘real’ books we…
When we think of Facebook we often think of it as a social networking site. Yesterday, for a period of time, people trying to log into other, 3rd party, sites which use their Facebook account for authentication were redirected to an error page. At this point it became clear to them that services such as…