Craig’s Musings

Although the video quality is poor compared to the HD-like video onsite, I still think the message behind this “what is enterprise content management about” video from EMC is quite effective, especially for those that don’t want techno-jargon (i.e. my parents).

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Not to forget that today is Earth Day, I’m reminded of being exposed to Chris Jordan’s photographic art during a flight I took, I think, last year. His images stuck with me, and several seem very fitting to draw your attention to today:

Plastic Cups, 2008 (60×90″, depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on [...]

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Scott Berkun’s The Myths of Innovation is a refreshingly unpretentious read–one that I accomplished straightaway in an afternoon (off).
Here are my takeaways–all quotes are Scott’s unless explicitly noted otherwise:

Innovation as an accumulation of smaller insights…connecting pieces…realizing picture (puzzle); therefore, take action to enable insights to occur more freely.
Work passionately and take breaks to let the [...]

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I just finished reading Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant, and it’s caused me to reevaluate the potential impact of ideas as related to content, its management and the value derived from both.
While I will post more specific thoughts on Blue Ocean Strategy shortly, I thought it worth [...]

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I just finished watching Charlie Rose’s interview of Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos on PBS. Most of the conversation focused on the Amazon Kindle, an amazing new device that embodies a vision to improve the act of reading. Kindle was the chosen product name specifically because it means to start a fire. The creative fires surrounding [...]

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