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I have a theory that there are two basic shapes of organisation when it comes to organising IT - bow-tie and diamond. A bow-tie shaped organisation aims to keep the "business people" on one side of the bow-tie and the "techies" on the other side.

I watched an interesting video interview with Tim Weller of Incisive Media yesterday in which Tim explained one of his top priorities was returning the company to the innovative, risk-taking culture of its early years. I think most big companies spend a lot of time…

I have been watching with interest the Times' experiment with paid content - or rather cutting off non-paying customers from stories. This chart from Alexa today tells the traffic story - stable traffic for The Guardian and The Telegraph and sharply declining traffice for The…

I remember quite vividly years ago failing to convince anyone in my circle of acquaintances in b2b that Linkedin would have a future. The problem was that, though they were getting quite popular, they didn't have an obvious business model and without revenue, it was…

I'm pleasantly surprised to be able to report that my personal domain is now functioning with Posterous. It's not that it's particularly complicated to redirect DNS, it's just that one does it so rarely it's easy to get lost in the detail. Now to see…