Last year, I looked at new hire practices and found some interesting methods: Ensuring new hires understand the shadow or informal part of the organization through the use of tools such as network maps (Jon Katzenbach, Senior Partner of Booz & Company, author of The Wisdom of Teams). Start the process as early as possible. Tweet. MORE >>

"Hungary President Schmitt quits in plagiarism scandal" as it says in the BBC story of 2nd April 2012 (he was found to have copied chunks of material in his PhD) [link]. Thanks to my colleague Peter Willett for drawing this to my attention. Plagiarism MORE >>

I have covered TIBCO before (see:  TIBCO Spotfire Brings Self-Service Data Analysis to the Enterprise with a Social Twist ). Recently I spoke with Ram Menon, TIBCO President of Social Computing about their upgraded social business offering. TIBCO has been a leader in making the digital world connect for quite some time.  had HTML5.  MORE >>

Another fun, quick read. This time from James Lawther on the topic of Benchmarking: the Easy and Hard Way. Benchmarking is a beguiling idea. You look at how your competitors do things, work out what is the best practice and then implement it. Benchmarking should create real competitive advantage. fabulous concept, what's not to like? MORE >>

Markets are conversations ~ Cluetrain Manifesto. … and so are organizations. The network design principles successful organizations follow are: ( 1 ) shortening the distance between two randomly picked files/nodes/people. 2 ) getting more people who you personally know to know each other. Esko Kilpi. Conversations. We narrate our work. Tweet. MORE >>