Kishore Balakrishnan’s Blog

trigger for the post: No ownership, no accountability - wikis, collaboration software, social media, Enterprise 2.0 and how not to get things done.

1. Business is a value chain, a social value chain with a clear purpose.
2. I am a part of a value chain and will have to do my part. For that I need ownership to what I’m supposed to do. Either I do it or somebody else does it.
3. We all need accountability, if somebody else is dependent on what I’m supposed to do I better get down to it. And vice versa.

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Thinking about collaboration

Collaboration takes place when you do what you are good at, and when you let other people do what they are good at.

mmm.. It looks like we still have no software in the enterprise to make the people accountable

What features do we need?
1. When I have a problem to solve, I will create an item which will consist of a short-text, details, (attachment!?), tags, people-who-i-think-can-help-me
2. Now some one in the list of people-who-i-think-can-help-me could either help me, give a clue, and/or add more people-who-they-think-can-help-me
3. repeat step 2 until problem is solved !

Other features:
4. Whenever I have a new problem, I should rank the new problem relative to the list of existing issues so that the people-who-i-think-can-help-me know my priorities
5. Users should be able to change their relationship to items from “i can and am trying to help” to “i cannot help but interested in the outcome” - Now the software should let people get updates depending on this relationship like “update on every change: new clue/memo/hint or new people” or “update weekly” or “update at the end of closure” etc
6. let answers be rated i.e., thank users for the clues/hints..
7. ..thinking..

Is there any software that has the above features ?

(NextBestAction is something am working on with the above requirements in mind)

note: PLM is usually Product Life Cycle Management

can also be Problem Life Cycle Management

6 Reasons to Visit the World’s Happiest Country : ..Denmark has recently emerged as the world’s happiest country, beating out Bhutan, the long-time favorite of anthropologists everywhere..

This is an idea for Jonathan Harris who has recently released I wan You To Want Me

What is the most frequently heard word on BBC ?

Indeed

O’Reilly FYI : Scott Berkun is back and Making Things Happen in project management : ..I’m curious to know what people see as good qualities in a project manager, or the qualities that make a project manager terrible to work with. Please post your comments here, and I’ll select a winner (in a totally arbitrary fashion) to receive a free copy of Making Things Happen. Just post your thoughts by the end of next Tuesday (April 15). Thanks!.. ( via scott berkun: free copy of making things happen)

Very Related : Social Project Management : ..project management is about people making commitments to other people to work with still other people to get something done or built for perhaps some other people..

Spot on !

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Are there others ?

I would not have googled for “raw food amsterdam” if not for Steve Pavlina: The Anatomy of Personal Change which starts ..I want to share some thoughts on my recent decision to switch to a raw food diet with respect to how I finally made this change..

Dear Gmail

I have created lot of labels and one of them is xyz

Am looking at a mail and I want to label it xyz

There are 2 situations: Either
1) I do not remember that I created xyz or
2) Am lazy to scroll down the list of labels to look for xyz

Due to the above reasons, I click on “new label”

The pop-up is “Please enter a new label name”

I enter “xyz”

The message is “The label name you have chosen already exists. Please try another name:”

Oops. Why can’t Gmail accept this label and say

“Dear Kishore. You were lazy to select the label that already existed. I assigned the existing label. Have a nice day. Wish you a lazy day:-)”

Pinging the latest post in The Official Gmail Blog: We are Hiring

some heroes : ..I’m not claiming this is a list of the n most admirable people. Who could make such a list, even if they wanted to?..

Clarification needed !

What is the procedure for Sengkang and Scheveningen to become sister cities ?

Scheveningen is part of The Hague, Netherlands. It is a modern seaside resort with a long sandy beach, an esplanade, a pier, and a lighthouse.

Sengkang is a sub-urban area in the north-eastern part of Singapore

Hey - Google Australia has come up with a new feature called gDay that I think you will like - check it out here http://www.google.com.au/gday

via TechCrunch: Google Launches Future Search

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