Today is Sunday, and, as it is becoming my tradition, I enjoy watching at specific issues (e.g. political polls) from a different perspective.
In this case, biology.
Actually, the inspiration is the constant flurry of partisan bile that I read on my wall on one of my Facebook profiles (the one where, for historical reasons, I have mainly Italian connections).
From the press release: “The new Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC), which will replace the European Regulators Group (ERG), has its first meeting scheduled for 28 January 2010 in Brussels”.
This article will be conveniently short- as I think that privacy statutes and regulation should be.
If you are curious but either too young [...]
Next week I will start publishing some “what if” segments derived from my previous Maximizing costs, minimizing ROI article.
As today is Sunday, before starting with the first what-if in this series, I wanted just to share some writing ideas.
The title of this article is both a provocation and a simple statement of facts.
It is funny to observe as something that was often the most critical issue with startups and growing SMEs is now visible in sensibly larger organizations.
The issue? The temptation of reducing risk by spreading too thin across multiple line of activities.
In theory, this could mean having multiple “fall-back” opportunities, should one or more of the alternatives fail to deliver the expected results.
In reality, this implies that you have multiple initiatives to coordinate- a tough call, made even more difficult to manage if you are within a competitive environment, where external issues could require a constant refocus.
In this article, taking the lead from the first public speech of the European President, a “what if” story on the application of the streamlining approach to the external relations of the EU 27.
In 2008 I converted part of my research on social networks and social networking online into material to be embedded within a marketing book.
I wasn’t the first (e.g. Google’s CEO said that the impact on printed news would be an increased demand of quality content), and will certainly not be the last to extol the potential virtues of user-generated news.
But there is another side-effect: the potential for spontaneous and instant feed-back on specific issues.
Let’s first start with an apology: this article is filled with personal business reminiscences and reading/learning references.
I will start from the end- with a personal joke.
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Since at least 1970s, we all became used to seamless and instantaneous access to financial resources worldwide.
Over the last few decades, this extended also to the assembly line and the supply chain.
The missing link is still the people.
We are burdened by increasingly Byzantine rules on movement and resettlement, whose complexity is creating an industry in its own.
In this article, some simple considerations from observing rules and regulations around, trying to balance common sense and security.
Geolocalization
If you visited websites recently, often you found that the website was tailored not just to your our language settings, but also to your own location.
As an example, search websites now have “virtual” country search sites- and, of course, spammers too.
While companies redesigned their (physical) logistics chain, often the value of geolocalization (i.e. pinpointing your location) is not fully accessible to all the people involved, from customers, to affiliates, to partners.
In this short article, a couple of questions and some ideas- with examples from both online and offline activities.
I had the chance to observe organizations and communities since quite an early age, and something was really fascinating.
When organizations expand, often it is assumed that the “culture” of the original entity will spread to all its parts- as if the center were the heart, and the parts (branches, subsidiaries, etc) were limbs of the same body.
An anthropocentric view of organizational development.
In this article, a small framework to observe, analyze, and ensure that your organization complies with the same professional and ethical standards throughout.
Following Italian news is almost a full-time job, and also in Italy I met quite a few people whose only source of information is the sampling of few TV news.
If you missed the news- it has been reported that the T.A.R. (an administrative court of appeals) sided with ENAC’s decision that “in the interest of consumers” any kind of ID issued by Italian authorities (including hunting and driving licenses) is acceptable to identify yourself for internal flights, not just those recognized by other members states.