Hi team, I had a great exploratory conversation with Hannelie Minnaar, the Assistant Registrar at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) this morning. I invited her to interact with us on this opportunity via our blogger so that these ideas can get a life of their...
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Do we preach "Virtual Officing" but abstain from the practice?
There has recently been so much blogging about 'virtual officing' and about our connectedness that I just felt compelled to write this. Imagine my surprise. Driving down William Nicol on Sunday on my way back from church, I see these reappearing 'adobt-a-pole-posters'...
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Go Kulula, go!
It's funny how something that goes wrong, actually gives a company an opportunity to score massive brownie points - depending on how they handle it. I had such an experience with Kulula and afterwards went to their website and posted a comment. This is my comment to...
ACSA gets up to speed (a bit)
The Airports Company of South Africa is really working hard to upgrade facilities to make SA's airports worldclass. On the whole, they're doing a great job. OK, so the lifts in the Joburg domestic terminal are tragic, but that's a small gripe in such a great facility....
1st world vs 3rd world – which is which?
This morning I took my baby to Ampath to get blood samples for the Netherland-lab. We also had an option to take him to the Pretoria Academic Hospital tomorrow for the same sample. Obviously we rather decided to go for the Ampath-option. You know - first world,...
Blogging…who cares?
In an information-overloaded society who cares who blogs and why? Note that is a question and not a statement. But could it be that when one has 109 books on the 'waiting to be read' shelf, a pile of journals, magazines and clippings a couple of zillion meters high...
The Interactive Workplace
This was sent to me by email. I am trying to track down the URL to reference it properly, but for now, enjoy. EDS' Jeff Wacker: Interactive workplace scary -- in a good way POSTED:03 May 2005, SOURCE: Edmonton Journal Gamers could rule the world when the Next Big...
Ignore blogs at your brand's peril
Since Le Monde (see it here), Fortune and BusinessWeek ran cover stories on Blogs and business (read BusinessWeek's here), it seems that a lot of column inches have been expended on debating whether blogging is just a fad or the "next big thing". I think its the...
Ignore blogs at your brand’s peril
Since Le Monde (see it here), Fortune and BusinessWeek ran cover stories on Blogs and business (read BusinessWeek's here), it seems that a lot of column inches have been expended on debating whether blogging is just a fad or the "next big thing". I think its the...
Imagine everything worked like this….luverleee
Last week I got an e-mail from one of the tech sites stating that FireFox (the browser you should be using by now) had a security flaw. No kidding on my next download, there was another mail from the same tech site, saying FireFox had released a patch, and then my...
Who you are more important than what you sell
It is our contention that the emerging era (we call it the "connection economy") is forcing companies to make a massive shift from "what" they sell to "how" they sell and "who" they are as the primary competitve advantages. This means that companies must take public...
What makes one African?
In this weeks Sunday Times (South Africa) on page 4 in the main section in the bottom right corner is a small piece with the title, 'Party debates what to do about race'. In summary the question being asked by the ANC is this, in a post-apartheid South Africa, does...
Spam Filter – next addition to your Mobile Phone
A while ago one of our Blogs featured a thought on whether Mobile Phones would get more complex or more simple? What can possibly be added, or what should rather be taken away? That debate aside, it's time we had a mechanism that allowed us to filter out Spam. If sms...
Good to Great
Good to Great and its predecessor, Built to Last are two of the best selling business books of all time. Built to Last is, in my opinion, a seriously dodgy book that purports to give timeless advice for building enduring companies, by analysing the antics of seriously...
The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence
I have been a fan of Dan Tapscott for years. He was one of the first authors to fully grasp the implications of the Internet technology, and has been writing about its potential and impact since the early 1990s. I still think his book on how it will impact young...
Bring your car in one day earlier and we’ll charge you more than double…
Me: "Hi, this is Jean Cooper speaking. I just want to point out a small administrative error: I hired a car from you at R88 per day, but you charged me R235 a day." Car rental company: "No, sir, it is not an admin error. You were supposed to hire the car for 6 days,...
The Connection Economy
The Open Magazine (a weekly e-zine for Linux and Open Source computing), recently ran an article entitled "The Connection Economy" by by Geoff Cohen, Senior Consultant, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation (read it here). It's a nice simple, and...
A Trip to Ikea could change your marriage (no really)
The Independent (UK) on Sunday, 15 May, (read it here - premium content) reports that Ikea is dominating a market you wouldn't expect. They have had a wedding in a (Canadian) store, their famous in-house branded meatballs have become legendary and their restuarants...
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