Twinstan's interesting links roundup on Diigo (weekly)

• In-Store Signs Get Smart - Technology Review

  I know this stuff is coming no matter what we think of it, but ad-signs that recognise you as you walk by and react is pretty mind-boggling.

• Peter Measures Blog : Business Process Management Suites – the future for business analysts?

  I am not convinced by the tools, but really want to be.

• LinkedIn 2010 Overused Buzzwords: Extensive Experience, Innovative And Motivated

• Virtualisierung und Cloud Computing: 7 Ratschläge für die IT der Zukunft - computerwoche.de

• You don’t need agile to avoid the seven deadly sins of pm

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• Better Projects: BAs and Visualizing Information

  Great visual on knowlegde pyramid.

• adrianh's agile and ux Bookmarks on Delicious

  A fantastically rich collection of links on making UCD and agile work together - the most complete overview I have seen.

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• Business Model Canvas – Facilitator Cards | the architecture of everything

  Looks like the Osterwaelder business model canvas is gaining traction...

• Touchpoints Bring the Customer Experience to Life - Adam Richardson - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review

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• Getting Creative Things Done: How To Fit Hard Thinking Into a Busy Schedule :: Tips :: The 99 Percent

  This certainly resonates with me.

• Agile UX in Practice - some tips | Agile UX

  A little general for my liking, but covers some of the methods that I have also found to be very useful in bringing together UCD type approaches and agile.

• Herding Cats: More Agile Claims

  Another intelligent and balanced explanation from Glenn Alleman (Herding Cats) on why comparisons between agile and more "traditional" approaches are often flawed and unreasonably slanted towards the agile camp.

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• E-Commerce News: Cloud Computing: Architecture Is Destiny

• TOGAF 9 introduces a very appealing concept of Capability-based planning for Business People

  Not sure what is new about this, but it is at least a nice 1-pager on capabilities.

• The New York Times - Ebb and Flow at the Box Office

  cool graphic

• Design Strategy at a Glance | Flickr

  Great overview of the design process.

• YouTube - Do You Speak English? - Big Train - BBC comedy

  OK - not a business architecture related link, but one of my favourites...

• BBC News - In graphics: Eurozone in crisis

  A cracking simple infographic from the BBC - "makes one proud to be..." and all that... as long as you don't look at the figures, of course...

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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.