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Subscribe to Backblog  Social Media and Healthcare December 23, 2009 By Michael Martineau Categories: General eHealth I recently completed a discussion paper on Consumer eHealth for a client. In my research, I found that the rapid adoption of social media applications such as Facebook and Twitter by the general public has not gone unnoticed by healthcare organizations and providers. Ed Bennett, a hospital web... How should an organization measure progress in cloud adoption? December 21, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General I was recently asked how an organization adopting cloud should measure progress and thought back to the days when I was working with balanced scorecarding. There is a need for both leading and lagging indicators of performance. Here were my initial thoughts; I'd love to hear other perspectives. ... One page strategic plan December 19, 2009 By Ben Bradley Categories: General A strategic plan has a better chance of being successful when it’s easy to understand, easy to find, and easy to share. Here’s a great example from http://www.churchofcustomer.com/2009/12/how-to-create-a-1page-strategic-plan.html Ben Bradley Marketing, Sales and Anything Else Edward Lawler on new management models (as what what I call “wirearchy” emerges) December 18, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Web 2.0 Ed Lawler is a reknowned management thinker I have studied for years. He was just interviewed (by Karl Moore, a management professor at McGill University) for the Toronto Globe and Mail on the need for new management models in the Interconnected Era. . New World Needs New Management Model Karl Moore:... Considerations for Emerging Technologies in Your Sourcing Strategy December 16, 2009 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing There are a number of commonly accepted models for the adoption of emerging technologies and the most effective manner for the organization to consider, test and deploy them. Generally there is a “trigger event” followed by building expectations, then disappointment and eventually a period of more... Book Prep contributes to the 'age of abundance' of books December 14, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General One of the examples I use when I talk about the kinds of mental shifts that take place when something has reached the age of abundance is: books. Before the .com era of Amazon, Google books and the Gutenberg project, if you wanted a book you either: Owned the book Barrowed the book from... Does Canada have Federated EMR Paralysis? December 11, 2009 By Alan Brookstone Categories: General eHealth Will geographic challenges and the decentralized nature of Canadian provinces and territories ultimately be the undoing of any attempts towards a national EMR strategy? At a time that hard decisions need to be made regarding a national approach to EMR adoption and use, there has never been a greater... Using light for physical network switching December 10, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General There have been many stories about solar sails to move space ships and a while back I wrote about some work done at Rice on a single molecule car that they later attached a light motor, but this is the first story I've seen about using light to manipulate objects on the nano-scale like with... What Does 'Socially Calibrated' Mean as an Element of Social Business Design ? December 9, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 Ever since hearing of "Social Business Design" – a term associated with the Dachis Group’s positioning as a blue-chip expertise-and-experience based consulting firm focusing on helping enterprises operate more effectively in an interconnected business environment, I have been struggling to clarify... Webinar – How to Drive Demand Generation with an Inbound, Social Media Strategy December 8, 2009 By Ben Bradley Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 Presented by Marcus Tewksbury, Director of Alterian Customer Intelligence Flip the funnel. Flatten the funnel. Get rid of the funnel! These aren’t some loony, fringe ideas, but rather the thinking of some of the leading marketing minds of our time like Godin, Meerman, and Brogan. Everyone recognizes... A Review of the Predictions for 2009 December 7, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General For the last few years I've been grading my predications at the end of the year (2006, 2007, 2008), so it seems like time to look at those for 2009. My predictions for 2010 will be out in a few weeks. 2009 has been a year for many organizations to look inward and focus on cost cutting instead of... TedXNaperville! December 4, 2009 By Ben Bradley Categories: General TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxNaperville, where x=independently organized TED event. At our TEDxNaperville event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and... Central Nervous System for the Earth December 3, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General The New York Times had an article on HP labs activities to gather information on a massive scale. It's a research and development program to show an example of building a planet-wide sensing network, using billions of "tiny, cheap, tough and exquisitely sensitive detectors." This kind of sensor... Can we Achieve Healthcare System Sustainability with Fixed Budgets and Insatiable Demands? December 2, 2009 By Alan Brookstone Categories: General eHealth Get used to doing more for less! One does not have to be a rocket scientist to see that healthcare system sustainability is going to be a huge challenge for nations in the years to come. Already, demand outstrips supply in many developed countries. Approximately 50 million people do not have health... CEO Series: Interview with Tom Douramakos, CEO Guestlogix, Onboard Retailing Pioneers December 1, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment This is the second in a series of interviews conducted with CEOs of interesting Canadian technology companies. The intent of this project is to provide investors with a unique understanding of what various companies are doing - directly from the top dog. Hopefully, the interviews conducted over the... Please select a category:
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