Today I visited the IBM Smart Business 2012 event at the very nice Stockholm Water Front congress centre. It was one of those free seminars that some of these huge companies can afford to throw and I was lucky to get an invite. I do get a lot of this type of invitations (not always …
The Businessman here at the Milan airport on my way home. Processes are important and can really make a business or situation so much more efficiant and productive. For that to happen, the processes, which is written in the past, and reality, that is happening now, have to be fairly similar. If not, then there …
Have you ever noticed that you sometimes wish that your colleagues, friends or spouses would use Google instead of asking you the questions that you know they would very quickly and easily find just my typing it in to Google? I mean very often we have to go to Google anyway to be able to …
Hi The Nerd here. On the 6th of February I saw a tweet in my Twitter flow from @RonaldYau where he promoted a cloud based To-do service called Workflowy. It made me curious since this is something I constantly struggle with and I have not yet found a solution that covers all my needs. I decided …
Hi The business man here. Last week I came back from a business trip to China where I visited two cities, Yantai and Shanghai. I have been to various countries in Asia many times before and always been amazed by what is going on there but China takes the price for me. I’m not quiet sure …
The Businessman and The Philosopher here. This is my view of the difference between complexity and complicated. Quiet often I find my self in a situation where project progress is halted because people mix complexity with complicated. Let me make it very clear, complexity is not the same thing as complicated. Complexity is in fact …
Hello, The Business man here. When I start to write this post I’m sitting on a flight between Vienna and Copenhagen. I have for some time had this thought in my head that traveling brings out ideas and new thoughts that does not come out when sitting in the office. I have also noted that …
Hi The Businessman here. This blog post started when I, earlier this week, was on a business trip to Birmingham in the UK. To get to Birmingham from Stockholm, I had to fly via Frankfurt. I decided to use an electronic boarding pass, which was simply the boarding pass in a PDF format on my …
Hello, The Artist here. There has been quiet a bit of discussions around the Spotify business module and the streaming of music on the other side of the pond since the company launched its service in the US. I have touched in it before in this post where I showed what kind of money independent …
Hi, all 4 faces here. I woke up this morning and as usual I reached out for my iPhone to scan through the latest news and check if I had got any work mails from Asia or Australia. This morning I also had an SMS that had arrived during the night, I decided to check …
Hi, The Philosopher here. There has been recent studies by Philip Runsten at the Center for People and Organization that has shown that if we have to clear and distinct goals for our projects it will lead to less effective work groups and less good outcomes. Very interesting and something I have felt for a long time. …
Hello, The Artist here. Being a long time musician with a couple of album releases in my CV and also being a techno nerd, I have a big interest in knowing how much musicians and other artists today make from the new on-line distribution stores and especially from Spotify, who are huge here in Sweden and have recently started …