Via NRC I stubled upon this timelapse video of Manhattan.
Very cool:
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/24492485 w=500&h=280]
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Timelapse Video Manhattan
Tag: EIM
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New URL and Look ’n Feel
I changed the URL of my site today and applied a new theme. I hope you like it, please let me know! My old URL will shut down. I have used this URL since 2006 but now I finally moved my blog over to robberthomburg.com.
The theme is made by wpshower. Very minimalistic and straight forward, I think. I made some small tweaks to ensure it fits my needs.
Now back to my glass of wine (a white Rioja) and the final of the Champions League. Seems like a lot of sports are coming to an end today as HC Amsterdam became Dutch fieldhockey champions!
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Visualizing Information
Today I was in a workshop where we encountered some discussions on interpreting information. Interpreting information is done by the brain. We can only display information in a way that enhances interpretation. Visualization helps interpretation and increases the value of information. Today I encountered this great TED video, with great examples from Amsterdam during Queensday! Thanks to @jasperdevalk for the tweet about this video.
[ted id=1152]
Last weekend I read a conversation in HBR between David Allen and Tony Schwartz. David Allen is the creator of Getting Things Done, a list-driven productivity approach. Tony Schwartz is the CEO of The Energy Project, he boosts productivity through the science of high performance. The conversation was very interesting and inspiring. David Allen describes his ideas as the uncovering of the strategic value of clear space. To be creative you need space and freedom. The techniques of GTD ensure you get this freedom and space. One big lesson of GTD is to start the day with the most important task for that day. In the morning you are fit and fully charged to do the task. The Energy project focusses on the energy needed to perform. There are four dimensions of energy that we all need: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. An important first lesson of energy in the physical dimension is to work intensively for 90 minutes and then take time to recover. The basic idea here is that life in essence is not continuous but it is rhythmic Think about your hart rate, muscle movement and breathing. If these are all rhythmic, you should work with the same concept. Another lesson is that sleep is very important, this is known since a long time but still to many people do not sleep enough and are less productive than they could or should be!
Today I started the day with my most important task and my feeling when I was finished was super. The day was succesfull from the start. Do you get the same feeling when you start with email?
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Masters of Information
Today we discussed a new idea about a masterclass on information productivity. We looked at our ideas about Enterprise Information Management and tried to envision the next steps. What is Information Productivity and which topics do we want to include? During our two hour discussion we got to the essence and were satisfied about the results.
What do you think should be included in a masterclass information productivity and how do you want to learn from?
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EIM scan preparation
Tomorrow I am co-hosting a first EIM workshop in a series of three. Today I worked on the hypotheses for the scan, this means putting into words what it means for an information domain to be in a specific maturity level. An information domain can be ‘customer information’ or ‘expertise knowledge’. The domains that are included in the EIM scan are specific for each organisation as they depend on strategy. Another aspect that is very important in this workshop is a clear view on the proces and information flow. I worked up some examples for 5 process flows to be discussed tomorrow. A colleague of mine will be present as well to work on infographics of these flows.
My main concern is how to capture all valuable input during the workshop 😉
Today started with a trip to our The Hague office to discuss a the people management transfer to the Advisory of one of our colleagues. Because I was sick yesterday I did not prepare myself enough, but I did come up with two questions concerning ambitions and objectives. These answers gave great direction to our meeting. The other thing I did was be honest as this is my first people management experience. I asked for feedback in the future to set a learning atmosphere.
After this meeting I raced back to Utrecht to visit a client and was barely on time for the meeting. On the way over I was behind a motorcyclist when he slipped on the tarmac, so I had to hot the brakes big time. I was glad to see the driver was OK and I quickly hit the gas. During the meeting we prepared for a workshop next wednesday. This project has big time pressure. This means focus is key and distraction unwanted. When we were finished I went home to get some work done over there.
Today I encountered this video from TED. The video is about the algorithms Google and Facebook and many many others are using to filter information on the web for us. These companies try to make information relevant only forget the person on the other side of the screen (yes that is you) is the one that determines if the information actually is relevant. The major concern is that you cannot control these filters to ensure actual relevancy or chose not to see relevant content!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s]
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Videos from EIM2011
Yesterday I forgot to post the video’s Paul showed
The Virtual Choir by Eric Whitacre aka What does Empowering the Collective Brain mean?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WhWDCw3Mng]
What is Enterprise Information Management
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTHQkvhRWD4]
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Preparation is key!
As we learned yesterday from Bert van Marwijk preparation is key in performing. Today I met with my contact at a new customer. We talked about the organization, the project and the VLC assignment. We shared some documents for me to study. My contact attended EIM2011 and we talked about the application of some take-aways from yesterday, especially from Toon Abcouwer! When I arrived at the VLC Utrecht office I was in luck that my colleague at the assignment was at the office. We discussed our work and discussed some to-do’s. I started reading some documents for preparation the rest of the day. In between reading I started on actual preparation for a workshop that is planned for next week.
At the end of the day I had a meeting discussing the VLC Advisory Change Management effort. We discussed some theory and methodologies. We talked about the way we can spread the knowledge on this topic within VLC. This inspired me to look at the preparation for my engagement I worked on earlier today: learning starts at the beginning of a project!
For me a big extra is that it is the first time in my working life that I can go to a customer by bike!
PS1: my MacBook Pro battery lasted all day long 🙂
PS2: why do Dell printer find it so hard to print documents from Apple’s 🙁
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EIM2011 Day
Today was EIM2011 Day. We had some great speakers and a great audience. This summed up to a great and inspiring day. First Paul Baan kicked off the day with some fresh insights on Information Productivity. Jeroen Derynck updated us on Enterprise 2.0. Toon Abcouwer described the circle of life for organizations and the different needs for information. Roeland Dietvorst explained what the automatic processes in the brain do. Andy Boyd shared some insights on his work with Shell and the London School of Economics. The last speaker was Bert van Marwijk how told the story about the road to World Cup 2010.
Some take-aways:
- Cost of Information = Cost of Systems + Cost of Information Overload + Cost of Information Assymmetry
- Where is the fun in Enterprise Systems?
- Collaboration counts for 36% of all business performance
- Information used to mean power but today it means freedom
- There is tension between desire, obligations and capabilities
- 25% or less of all information can be put into systems
- Organisations shift from status quo to crisis to innovation to enterpreneurship and back to status quo. Based on (un)certainty about desires and obligations versus capabilities
- Our brain shape our view of reality
- Asymmetric dominance (aka the decoy effect) forces choice
- Misattribution of arousal changes our behavior
- Stimulation of the Nucleus accumbens makes us want things NOW
- Physical warmth can stimulate interpersonal warmth
- Mirror behavior makes us happier and more receptive
- We make decisions based on max. 30% written information
- At Shell 50% of the answers come from people we do not know directly and these answers are the most valuable 75%
- You should learn when a project start to make use of new knowledge
- The best enterprise search is to ask a coworker
- Focus on a small number of important lessons and keep repeating over and over again
- Success is made by people, they reach goals!
A day packed with a lot of inspiration and if you did not make it today you should visit EIM2012!