Community Network Blogs As some of our hawk-eyed users have been quick to notice, we've now added support for OpenSocial - a common set of programming standards used by many social web applications. Supporting OpenSocial standards means that SAP StreamWork users will get access to a broader range of tools and functionality. If you've developed an application using the popular OpenSocial API, you'll now be able to register it with SAP StreamWork and make it available to users in the SAP StreamWork tools catalog. Several companies have already taken advantage: Atlassian Atlassian is offering issue tracking, collaboration, and software development tools to help teams of SAP StreamWork users conceive, plan, build, and launch great products. CS Odessa CS Odessa is offering ConceptDraw MindWave, a visual mind-mapping collaboration tool. Doodle Doodle will help SAP StreamWork users save time and simplify the coordination of appointments with its online scheduling service. Google Got Decisions MindMeister
Cognitive Edge Just before Christmas I started off this thread by summarising the reasons that people have given me over the years in respect of the need to share knowledge across silos within organisations, both in Industry and Government. I also identified two common mistakes in finding solutions. These were (i) assuming that the problem was one of information sharing and (ii) attempting to define and prescribe ideal behaviour. In this second part I want to focus on four core guiding principles that will underlie any successful approach to the problem, and will then move on, in at least one possibly more, posts to summarise some methods and techniques that can be used. Social Obligation Over the last year I have heard some inspiring stories about the way that communities have come together to rebuild after bush fires. Individual Context We only know what we know when we need to know it. There is some overlap here with the general points made under social obligation above, all things are connected!
Как нанять программиста с закрытыми глазами / Мой бизнес Найти хорошего программиста – это большая проблема. За свою жизнь я нанял около 50 программистов, и редкий случай был успехом. Проблемы начинались оттуда, откуда их не ждешь.Один не мылся и вонял так, что в комнату не зайти. Я угрожал поставить вытяжку и вычесть из зарплаты; это помогало на один душ, не больше.Другой пил запоем и врал, что отравился брюшками семги.И все, почти все затягивали сроки.Каждый из тех, кого я нанял, казался отличным профессионалом по результатам интервью. И только опыт работы показывал, насколько ошибочным было первое впечатление. Поиск кандидатов Очередного программиста я нашел так: отобрал несколько откликов на HeadHunter.ru и попросил их посмотреть, чем они займутся. Спасибо за то, что уделил время. Чтобы не вышло как на картинке, вопросы по реализации постарайся сформулировать в формате решений: “Вот это я понимаю так-то. Испытательный срок Я получил три хороших ответа. BaseCamp Сергея Результаты Все программисты согласились и начали работу. Восторг!
SAP Adds OpenSocial API To StreamWork -- InformationWeek Apps built with the social Web development standard can be made available to users of SAP's collaborative decision-making software. SAP has expanded its potential base of application partners for StreamWork by adding support for OpenSocial, a common set of programming standards in use by many social Web application developers. SAP StreamWork is collaborative decision-making software, designed to make it easier for individuals -- both inside and outside an organization -- to work together. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) application synchronizes data to ensure people are using the same information at all times, and lets users work with existing programs such as WebEx, Evernote, Microsoft Outlook, and Google Gmail, according to SAP. "If you've developed an application using the popular OpenSocial API, you'll now be able to register it with SAP StreamWork and make it available to users in the SAP StreamWork tools catalog," SAP said on its Web site. More Insights
The looming deleveraging challenge - McKinsey Quarterly - Econom The specter of deleveraging has been haunting the global economy since the credit crunch reached crisis proportions in 2008. The fear: an unwinding of unsustainable debt burdens will drag down growth rates for years to come. So far, reality has been more benign, with economic growth recovering sooner than expected in some countries, even though the financial sector is still cleaning up its balance sheets and consumer demand remains weak. Podcast What policy makers and executives need to know about deleveraging Author Charles Roxburgh discusses how historic lessons can help government and business leaders guide the economy through the looming process of debt reduction. New research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), though, suggests that the deleveraging process may just be getting under way and is likely to exert a significant drag on GDP growth. Where deleveraging is likely today Debt grew rapidly after 2000 in most mature economies. What history teaches about deleveraging Exhibit 3
Quark's Place Apps for Science Essential Priorities for Optimizing the Business Value of Custom February 01, 2013 NewVoiceMedia recently announced it has raised $20 million of investment funds to aid its expansion overseas, including offices in North America. The company was founded in the UK in 2000 and originally offered telephony and call management in the cloud. It now has a close partnership with Salesforce.com, which has allowed it to expand into a multichannel contact center in the cloud. My research into the contact center in the cloud shows the timing probably couldn’t be better. My research shows that one of the biggest concerns of organizations adopting contact center in the cloud is performance. Given the current economic environment, some might question the decision to expand internationally. Regards, Richard J. VP & Research Director
Разработка роботов » Архив » Протокол CanOpen Недавно перед нами встала необходимость объединить несколько устройств в CAN сеть. Одно из устройств было реализовано на базе чипа от Beck и программировалось из CodeSys, другое на базе ARM контроллера, а главным устройством в сети должен был быть персональный компьютер с UNIX подобной ОС на борту. После изучения существующих промышленных протоколов я остановился на CanOpen. Этот протокол оказался очень гибким, он позволяет настроить различные режимы работы сети. Но главное CanOpen поддерживается в CodeSys и существует реализация на C под персональные компьютеры и контроллеры. В этой статье я расскажу, что такое CanOpen и как его запустить на персональном компьютере, используя библиотеку от CanOpen Главным элементом CANopen стандарта является описание функциональности устройства через словарь объектов. CANopen имеет два базовых механизма передачи данных: Различают следующие PDO: PDO могут использоваться для передачи до 8 байтов данных. CanOpen PDO
Happy 65th Birthday to the Doriot Ecology On January 12, I arrived in Austin to start my new career as Professor of Innovation at The University of Texas. Only two weeks later, President Obama opened his State of the Union address by proclaiming, "The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation.” Obama continued, “We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices, the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers, of Google and Facebook. Our free enterprise system is what drives innovation.” And then he made innovation urgent: “This is our generation’s Sputnik moment. So, we professors of innovation had better get rolling. Yes, it can. Innovation takes various forms, and there are many taxonomies for dividing them up. Most people have rich and full lives in the not-innovative quadrant of this innovation matrix. Type III Innovation is the most difficult, using new knowledge in new ways – do not try this at home. Another huge coincidence might be that I turn 65 on April 7th.
SOPHISTICATED FINANCE - Decision Making and the Smart Man Back in March I posted on the role of assumptions in developing the business and financial model. The important point was that the assumptions represent the key risks in the business model. Yesterday I read a good post on recruiting in the Private Equity and Venture Capital Recruitment blog. My definition of intuition is " facts that you cannot articulate". For most intuitions the facts can be discovered, if you work at it--perhaps with another personThe assumptions in the intuition represent the risks in the decision or conclusion I do not use intuition much and never have, but I have great respect for intuitive people. Another technique I always use is the "smart man" hypothesis. Note: I learned about the smart man hypothesis back in the early 1980s.
Digital Chip - Цифровые устройства Designing for the Unanticipated | On December 17, 2013 Cisco announced the acquisition of Collaborate.com, a cloud-based team collaboration platform that unifies messaging, document sharing, and task management in a single, easy-to-use mobile app for iPhone, Android and the Web. Collaborate's cloud, mobile, and web software capabilities enable Cisco to extend and integrate its collaboration and communications platform. The acquisition of Collaborate, headquartered in Boston, MA, represents a natural evolution of Cisco's next generation collaboration platform. Given the market transitions of mobility, cloud and the ever-increasing mobile worker population, the need to instantly connect, communicate, and collaborate is more important than ever. Organizations are seeking user-friendly, mobile-centric team collaboration tools that enable better informed, faster decisions to drive business results.
An Interview With Yourself From time to time, it’s good to have a conversation with yourself—maybe even an interview. This is how you do it. First, sit yourself down wherever you like to sit. Then you open the conversation like this: Dear self, you are x years old. As you look back on your life, what are you most proud of, what do you regret, and how do you feel about each of those things? What’s next, self? Of course, when you interview yourself, you can customize the interview however you see fit. Here’s wishing you all a great Monday. Are you satisfied with your answers? Image: DH