A full month? March, 2010

n-dimensional foreign policy

Monday, March 29th, 2010

While reading articles on the first Euro crisis, something unique about post-Lisbon EU kept being quite visible.

Most countries have “just” to sell their foreign policy to their own country and to their “foreign buyers”.

In the EU, the number of constituencies to take care of is variable, where “n” ranges from an handful to few dozens (each member country plus each EU institution- sometimes also with ripple-effects in member countries).

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On efficiency and efficacy in change management

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

this article is really short (for my standards)- because it is just an abstract of something that I am currently writing.

the current economic crisis is forcing many businesses and organizations to rethink their own activities

and size it is not an issue- small and business organizations suffer from the same original sin: layering of experience.

in mid-1990s it was quite common for larger companies to try to build a “knowledge organization”, but usually the initiatives started by appointing a knowledge manager…

…followed by a knowledge management office (whatever the official name was)

…and eventually a knowledge management bureaucracy

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The timeframe of online PR

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Just a short article to share some considerations, as I saw that also in my country of birth (Italy) communicating via Internet is becoming an alternative direct-to-the-people-and-bypass-the-media channel.

Certainly inspired by the recent live broadcast and open letter during the discussion of the health reform in the US Congress.

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Hiding in plain sight

Monday, March 1st, 2010

This article is focused on information technology, security, and monitoring the flow of your IPR beyond your firewall.

Technical? Yes. But I will try to make it understandable for a non-technical audience (the one that actually could use some of the ideas).

The concept? More than an article, a simple sharing of a potential issue and its (cheap) solution.

With a side-effect: once implemented, the solution could also act as a preventive defence against yet unknown issues using the same method- overloading the “filtering”.

Why now?

Over the week-end I was “testing the waters” inside an online community, to see if it would be a worthwhile effort to resurrect a security software/platform that I started creating at the end of the 1980s, to fill my (pre-Internet) travel time.

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