Three of the fundamental project governance knowledge areas in the PMI PMBOK are risk management, issue management, and change management. To me they are very much related. A Risk is something that might happen that will have an impact on the planned project. An issue is something that has happened and is negatively impacting the project, essentially a Risk with probability 100%. A Change is an adjustment to the planned project to address the Risk or Issue.
Authorize subscriber Social networks in your online site or app
An important though optional feature for your website or mobile app is providing your users a method to authenticate using social networks and/or to authorize you to have access to their information or social features. Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn and others offer methods, often using an open protocol such as OAuth , for developers to implement user authorized access to their platform. There are a number of advantages for providing this, as well as a few things to consider.
Wimbledon Insights – IBM and AELTC using big data, social and mobile to enhance fan experience
IBM has been the official technology supplier and consultant to the Wimbledon championships for the last 24 years. For two weeks every summer about 450,000 people attend the tournament as well as an additional 386 million global audience. For IBM, it’s an excellent opportunity to showcase their different products for social, analytics and cloud.
Fail Fast, Learn Faster
This week’s post focuses on the closing comment of Chris O’Neil, MD of Goggle Canada, during a panel discussion on Innovation at Salesforce Company Tour: “Innovation is about getting people to learn quickly. That’s what fail fast is all about.” Thoughts on how innovative executives can foster a learn fast approach in their companies.
Finding unusual uses for online services – Using Twitter to take notes
While attending the Salesforce.com Customer Company Tour in Toronto this week, I used twitter to take notes on my iPad during the next conference I attended, it would serve a dual purpose, of sharing the event with my followers as well as providing a medium for taking notes. Leave a comment to share any novel uses you do with online tools and services?
Creating Social Marketing Viral Tipping Points
Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point was originally released in 2000 – long before the proliferation of “social” – which to me places it in the category of early innovator of concepts in social marketing. How do we to translate the concepts discussed in the book into useful insights for social marketing today?
