Your senior team huddles around a whiteboard, planning the next few months of projects - the who, what, when, where and how of your business operations. Squeaky pen charging across the glossy surface, the bones of an epic To Do List rattle into place.It feels so right at the time, but as you gaze at the excited scrawls on the whiteboard afterwards, you wonder how you will ever channel that enormous brain dump into a cohesive plan. Does this sound familiar?End of the whiteboard era?The allure of the whiteboard is still strong in many organisations, big and small, and I get that it lends itself to a satisfying process of thrashing out ideas. But this approach to planning isn’t fit for purpose when your business has hundreds or thousands of resources, from people to equipment and real estate. Even if you deposit whiteboard musings into neat Excel spreadsheets, there is a risk of producing a plan that’s far from watertight, which leaks resources through its cracks, resulting in … [Read more...] about The new era of resource planning – How to get stuff done
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BlackBerry 10 in ten minutes: RIM senior PM demos the new platform
posted on 19 Nov 2012, 01:53 8 1. ODabaja (unregistered) Looks like a pretty confusing OS...and the whole language barrier doesn't help either. :| posted on 19 Nov 2012, 01:56 4 3. tigermcm (Posts: 861; Member since: 02 Sep 2009) I did feel there was a lil too much going on all though the home screen thing he did was nice posted on 19 Nov 2012, 02:51 0 14. ODabaja (unregistered) I did too but it seemed as though at one moment he would swipe in the home screen, and then with the same gesture, a completely different app would swipe in haha. posted on 19 Nov 2012, 04:38 1 23. AnTuTu (Posts: 1580; Member since: 14 Oct 2012) I'd say it is pretty good OS which is well organised, smooth, present true multitasking and customization. posted on 19 Nov 2012, 01:55 4 2. tiara6918 (Posts: 2169; Member since: 26 Apr 2012) Although I can't understand a word he's saying, bb10 has a potential in the market even if the interface has a bit of resemblance of … [Read more...] about BlackBerry 10 in ten minutes: RIM senior PM demos the new platform
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posted on 19 Nov 2012, 01:53 8 1. ODabaja (unregistered) Looks like a pretty confusing OS...and the whole language barrier doesn't help either. :| posted on 19 Nov 2012, 01:56 4 3. tigermcm (Posts: 861; Member since: 02 Sep 2009) I did feel there was a lil too much going on all though the home screen thing he did was nice posted on 19 Nov 2012, 02:51 0 14. ODabaja (unregistered) I did too but it seemed as though at one moment he would swipe in the home screen, and then with the same gesture, a completely different app would swipe in haha. posted on 19 Nov 2012, 04:38 1 23. AnTuTu (Posts: 1580; Member since: 14 Oct 2012) I'd say it is pretty good OS which is well organised, smooth, present true multitasking and customization. posted on 19 Nov 2012, 01:55 4 2. tiara6918 (Posts: 2169; Member since: 26 Apr 2012) Although I can't understand a word he's saying, bb10 has a potential in the market even if the interface has a bit of resemblance of … [Read more...] about Comments for : BlackBerry 10 in ten minutes: RIM senior PM demos the new platform
A smart home can help seniors maintain their independence
This is part of CNET's "Tech Enabled" series about the role technology plays in helping the disability community.First, Sophie Godek tried to read books with a magnifying glass. Then, she turned to a tablet to make the words on her e-books larger. Eventually, she couldn't even see that. The 95-year-old was losing her sight, and with it, one of her favorite hobbies. "She wasn't able to read anymore, and that was a big loss," said her son Jim Godek.Last year, the younger Godek had an idea: What if he could get his mom a device that could read books to her without the need to navigate a control screen that she had a hard time seeing? That device turned out to be the Amazon Echo, an internet-connected smart speaker that responds to voice commands. Jim Godek figured that he could buy his mother audiobooks from Audible, then teach her to use voice prompts to have the Echo play the audiobook.At first, Sophie Godek was a little wary."It took a little while to convince her of it," Jim Godek … [Read more...] about A smart home can help seniors maintain their independence
This smart home will help you care for seniors
Now Playing: Watch this: This startup wants to use smart homes for eldercare 1:44 This is part of CNET's "Tech Enabled" series about the role technology plays in helping the disability community. Allison Dean Love was getting nervous. She hadn't heard from her mother, Amelia, in a few hours. There were no emails or phone calls. No one else could get in touch with her either. Concerned, a cousin went out to Amelia Dean's 1948 ranch-style house and found the 82-year-old on the floor and dehydrated. She doesn't remember what happened, but her family estimates she'd been down there for about six hours. Love and her husband, who live in South Carolina, raced back to the small town of Columbia, Tennessee -- Love can remember every minute of that awful day like an episode of Fox television show " 24," she said. That was in November. Fast-forward to March, and Love found herself once more asking a cousin to check on Dean. This time, Dean was sitting in a chair in her living room. … [Read more...] about This smart home will help you care for seniors