by Brian Prentice | December 27, 2009 | 6 Comments
Like all good things, holidays must also come to an end. And as I proudly survey my complete lack of accomplishment over the last couple of weeks I can’t help but notice the harbingers of an important new season. Gift wrapping, once tightly wound around its cardboard tube has long since been shredded, crunched up [...]
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by Brian Prentice | December 22, 2009 | 14 Comments
Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior VP of Product Management at Google, should be congratulated for sharing his expansive thoughts on “The Meaning of Open.” This will no doubt generate a lot of debate on whether people feel Google is acting within this definition. But I think it’s necessary to take issue with some of his logic, particularly [...]
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by Brian Prentice | December 17, 2009 | 4 Comments
Earlier this week it was announced that the City of Los Angeles will be equipping 34,000 of their employees with Google Apps for email and collaboration. They are, according to Google, following the lead of Washington D.C. and Orlando, FL. This got me thinking about parallels with other cities like Munich, Amsterdam and Bristol and [...]
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by Brian Prentice | December 9, 2009 | 31 Comments
Let me ask you a question. I’m going to assume that at some point over the last twenty years you bought a car. So, how important was the car maker’s use of just-in-time manufacturing to your purchase decision? I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it was of no consideration at [...]
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