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• fourthway: The Real Underground 1125x788

  Cool morph between the london underground map and the "real" streetmap positions of the stations.

• BCG look at corporate portfolio management

  A nice easy read.

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• YouTube - Bay XP Meeting Part 1: Agile Estimation, Mike Cohn

  Haven't watched this in some time - great overview of agile estimation approaches. Though I am not an absolute convert on this particular front, the talk gives an excellent introduction on the no nonsense thinking behind relative sizing.

• What is Visual.ly? A platform to explore visual data launching soon

• YouTube - 8 Regeln für den totalen Stillstand in Unternehmen

  What a fantastic overview of things NOT TO DO in an organisation. Sadly only in German.

  tags: Strategy organisational change management

• Sketchnotes 2009 & 2010 – A book by Eva-Lotta Lamm

  Nice collection of images around UX concepts

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• InfoQ: Architectural Decisions as Reusable Design Assets

  Perhaps a little over formal, but some formality about decision making in architecture is a must and this looks like a framework that might work...

• Gamestorming » Blog Archive » Who/What/When Matrix

  Interesting take on the effective meeting protocol

• Valpak Rolls Out Augmented Reality Coupons

  Cool augmented reality coupon app...

• Do-It-Yourself Project Management (And How Behance Does It) :: Articles :: The 99 Percent

  Yet another agile like project management approach...

• Herding Cats: Stages of Understanding

• Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine | Video on TED.com

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• GeekBeat.TV #153 | SXSW 2011 – David Ferrucci Talks About IBM’s Watson | GeekBeat.TV

  The Watson project is remarkable.. some how this managed to get past me without me noticing. Definitely worth checking out.

• YouTube - Leading@Google: Greg Shea

  Surviving "24/8" working week.. good stuff.

• Stop the Insanity: How To Crush Communication Overload :: Tips :: The 99 Percent

  Given my new resolution (see post from January), I will be paying particular attention to this blog stream...

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• Khan Academy

  What an amazing site - wish this had been available when I was at school...

• Structure_Is_Not_Organization.pdf

  I stumbled across this classic article on Tom Peters' blog by chance (at least 14 years after first having to read it in my organisational design seminar at Bath!) - I know that the 7S framework has come under a deal of criticism, but this article still stands up well, 30 years on.

• A Brief History of the 7-S ("McKinsey 7-S") Model | tompeters!

  Despite his more recent outpourings, Tom Peters' 80s classics are still well worth revisiting...

• Why Process Models but not Data Models? | Greta Blash

  This article matches my perspective - data modeling is a missing weapon in too many analysts' arsenal.

• Cool Infographics - Blog - The Infographic Noob Guide to Online Marketing

  A cracking infographic on online-marketing tools

• Effects of agile methods on website quality for electronic commerce

• Lean UX, Product Stewardship & Integrated Teams

• Lean UX: Getting out of the deliverables business

• Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business - Smashing Magazine

• Collaborative Design Facilitator Cards (First Iteration) | the architecture of everything

• The Dangers of Design by User :: UXmatters

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• The Evolution of CRM Communication Channels

  Kommunication ist alles...

• Herding Cats: Does Agile Need to be Named?

  Once again, Mr Allemann takes the "bling" out of agile and brings it back to what it is. Good.

• Announcing the ZapThink 2020 Poster: The Vision of the Future of Enterprise IT | ZapThink

  Lots of nice thoughts in one diagram

• Behance Network :: Gallery

  Endless fantastic case studies for creative professionals

• Persuasive Design or The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Bad Behaviours - Online

  and another one from Sebastian Deterding. Smart guy. Loads of examples.

• Gamify | The Gamification Platform

  Definitely need to get into this stuff more - big wave coming...

• YouTube - Meaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right

  Great talk on "Gamification"

• InfoQ and Agile Contracts

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• Open University - Systems | How To Register | Systems Open Study Group

  Another great free resource on systems thinking from the open university.. proud to be british...

• Systems thinking diagram types

  Great little tutorial site on diagramming

• BBC Systems Practice - Managing Complexity

  BBC & the Open University are just fantastic..

• E-Commerce News: Enterprise IT: The Enterprise Architect Gets Some Respect

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