Last week I posted online a series of articles, on various management issues- Crisis, Contract, Confidentiality, service, project.
The title of the series? “Method_” something (search for “Method_” on the front page of this blog).
This article presents a series of considerations- not as a summary, but as a collection of ideas.
The five articles in this series have a single purpose: share small outlines of the approach I used in various consulting and service management activities.
The five articles in this series have a single purpose: share small outlines of the approach I used in various consulting and service management activities.
If you are a professional project/programme or service manager, probably this short article will sound funny- and match with some memories from your own experience.
And if you are a project manager who found that eventually the project that (s)he was managing became a project only by name- I can say that you are not alone.
If you are neither working in project nor service management- you are anyway surrounded by “projects”, “programmes”, “risk management”, “service providers”, “suppliers”, and discussions about “budgets”- be it the annual rite of passage through a Parliament, your home renovation, or just your vacation planning.
We moved from the concept of model, change, and project, to their application in ordinary business life, and to create something with relevant potential social impact, on both businesses and people- the Human Genome Project and the future brain mapping.
But all this covered only the “Genome, mind mapping” part of the title.
Neural networks are both a concept and a technology, and the impact is already visible in some decision-making activities, and in everyday technological products and services.
What could be a further development? What are going to be potential impacts on how we organize, structure, decide, act?
Again, some simple lessons derived by the computer between your ears.
And, I promise: I will not create any neologisms- I will use what is already available on the market- actually, in science.
This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.
The visible title of this section is “Genome and brain mapping”.
The link is named “cathedrals”.
It is not a criticism: it is a realistic assessment.
Beside the human genome and brain mapping, this section will discuss also how these and other mapping initiatives could affect not just science and medicine, but our everyday life.
This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.
How the addition of WolframAlpha as a search engine could complement Google services to create a new market.
Services? Access and structure knowledge. And a new form of knowledge management.
You do not need to know just what you are supposed to do, but also where you are, and where you should be.
If you are a perfect project manager with all the certifications required: probably you should skip this section, as it could be depressingly simple.
But it is not just progress itself- is the measuring and definition of progress that matter.
This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.
There are few things as contentious as planning estimates.
And controlling and managing change.
And checking its progress.
But is it not simply a matter of number crunching.
XXI Century libraries and search engines
Thursday, May 21st, 2009XXI century encyclopedias and knowledge processing.
How Google, WolframAlpha, Wikipedia, and Eurostat process a query.
Or: models of knowledge processing and distribution.
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