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• How the BA Can Take Advantage of Free Online Diagramming Tools > Business Analyst Community & Resources | Modern Analyst > Business Analyst Articles & Systems Analysis Articles | Modern Analyst

  the perfect tool is not yet there,but this shows a good selection of free web drawing tools

• Book Reviews | ManagerTools.com

• Before You Think Outside the Box, Think Inside of It

  Refreshingly obvious!

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Another TED talk on gaming

It seems that this whole behaviour manipulating gaming thing is very much in vogue (see also several posts from earlier this year (why not try my tag cloud? ;-)); TED published another talk on the topic from the Oxford TED conference earlier this year.

Although there was not much new material in the talk, Tom Chatfield certainly made a convincing case for the creativity of gamers. I particularly liked an anecdote about how a MMPORG required gamers to join forces in large numbers to defeat an evil dragon, but only rewarded a couple of the players. The result? A website set up by players to exchange an entirely invented currency ("dragon kill points") for items they wanted in the game.

If we can apply the same kind of motivation (or "engagement" as Chatfield calls it) to learning or enterprise "games" we can change the way we do business, whilst making it more fun in the process. Sounds to me like something worth exploring (think how performance reviews might work in a gaming context - check out the New Zealand company, sonar6 for a taste of where this is going!).

The talk can be found here; Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain | Video on TED.com.

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• » UX Book Reviews: October 2010 Johnny Holland – It's all about interaction » Blog Archive

• ECOMOD - Referenzgeschäftsprozesse und Strategien im E-Commerce

• 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Comics

• Adding Sanity to Your Agility | Agile Software Development Videos Directory

• Blowing up the 20th Century Business Model | Management Innovation eXchange

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• Patrick Chappatte: The power of cartoons | Video on TED.com

  Another cracker from TED

• Die 13½ Leben des Käpt’n Blaubär – Wikipedia

  Käpt'n Blaubär has something to say about everything.. Sound familiar?

• » Radio Johnny: IDEA 2010 Johnny Holland – It's all about interaction » Blog Archive

  Thoughts from the IA conference.

• InfoQ: Constantine on combining Agile and User Experience

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• E-Commerce News: Opinions: The Do Not Track List and the Law of Unintended Consequences

• theWay - systems-thinking.org

  borderline philosophy, but intriguing...if I could just understand it...

• Who’s Suing Whom In The Telecoms Trade?

  nice visualisation, amusing message ;-)

• HBR_Coherence_Premium.pdf

  Harvard Business Review article by booz fellows arguing for core competence/focused approach for companies - damn right!

• When PowerPoint attacks – and improv fights back

• BCG - Expertise & Impact Rethinking Scenarios

• Business analysis is a career ender…

  Be proud of the job ;-)

• Tim Jackson's economic reality check | Video on TED.com

  Quite a thought-provoker, this one!

• Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade? | Video on TED.com

  Not as mindboggling as his earlier lectures at TED, but still thoroughly informative.

• DMI London Transforming Design - Visual Notes

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• The Pyramid to Enlightenment is Upside-Down | Blog | design mind

• A Meditation on Root Cause Analysis (and Contest!) | Marcos Ferrer

  Nice roundup on root cause and getting to the real root of a problem

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• The_Future_of_Telecom_Operators.pdf

  Another report on the necessary business model innovation in the telco-sector (a la Telco 2.0).

• Becoming a great BA: consulting lessons from Ellen Gottesdiener

  Business analysis and architecture and business consulting overlap in man skill sets - some thoughtful remarks on this by Ellen Gottesdiener

• Anforderungen wachsen: Freiberufler sollen als Berater auftreten - computerwoche.de

  A timely reminder that the expectations towards "external" support (freelance or consultant) are increasing all the time - good!

• The Dangers of "Checklist" Architecture | ZapThink

  Another "fan" of checklists - lot of good sense here.

• Benchmarking can be destructive

  Having earned big money running benchmarking studies, it looks like the big consultancies are beginning to reconsider...

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