Comments on: Synthesis http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/04/18/synthesis/ Thoughts on the confluence of business, change and technology. Areas covered include business intelligence, cultural transformation, business and IT alignment, business and IT strategy, project execution and social media. Sun, 20 May 2012 04:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Analogies « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/04/18/synthesis/#comment-4688 Thu, 19 May 2011 23:48:32 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2501#comment-4688 [...] Synthesis [...]

]]> By: Inspiration « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/04/18/synthesis/#comment-2336 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:00:58 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2501#comment-2336 [...] Inspiration can come from many places. For me it is often via making a connection between two separate areas. I wrote about this phenomenon in my earlier artcile, Synthesis. [...]

]]> By: The Register’s take on Microsoft and Oracle / Sun « Peter Thomas - Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/04/18/synthesis/#comment-1101 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:36:16 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2501#comment-1101 [...] (and then recombined) millions of times by RNA Polymerase, that is after all how proteins are synthesised in cells; one characteristic of Microsoft’s success (notwithstanding its recent announcement [...]

]]> By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/04/18/synthesis/#comment-1023 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:44:02 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2501#comment-1023 Thank you for the reply Adrian. I agree with you about the nature of the challenge.

Peter

]]> By: Adrian http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/04/18/synthesis/#comment-1022 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:26:40 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2501#comment-1022 Good story and cool picture. The need to distill what we need from the overwhelming availability of information and ideas is one of our biggest challenges. Most change is incremental and requires pruning and shaping of ideas from multiple sources.

]]> By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/04/18/synthesis/#comment-1012 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:21:57 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2501#comment-1012 Brian,

Thanks for the comment. I agree that there is little point yearning for the age of the printing press (or the illuminated scroll). Progress in information dissemination is overwhelmingly positive; if sometimes a little locally frustrating.

Peter

]]> By: Brian Barnier http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/04/18/synthesis/#comment-1011 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:16:07 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2501#comment-1011 Peter, thanks works for me. The internet and electronic publishing makes it easy for lots of junk to be out there. Yet, this democracy of information is better than the closely guarded ivory tower of the past. On your point about synthesis, that works also. Must of the real value I bring to my clients is working across multiple best practices and my own teaching and consulting in my areas of speciality to provide the “best of the best.” When people want a synthesis in improve decision-making to get more business value from technology, I’m the spot. So I’m a living proof point for you. Best, Brian

]]> By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/04/18/synthesis/#comment-1010 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:12:28 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2501#comment-1010 Thank you for your kind words. Not sure what the criticisms were relating to Seth’s blog; nothing seemed untoward to me.

Peter

]]> By: cioassistant http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/04/18/synthesis/#comment-1007 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:12:44 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2501#comment-1007 Peter,
It is obvious from reading your posts that you are a learned man, and books in general must play a good part in that. While many prefer quick-fix books, you have applied a “critical thinking” to reading and add your own thoughts to create something new and useful (at least to you). This is no “anti-book” or “anti-learning” behaviour and there is no need for you to be on the defensive.
On the other hand, I am curious to hear the comments from the same people criticizing you regarding a recent blog from Seth Godin who claimed here http://ow.ly/35t8 that “Blogs have eliminated the reason for most business books to exist.”

Long

Blogs have eliminated the reason for most business books to exist.

]]> By: Recipes for success? « Peter Thomas - Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/04/18/synthesis/#comment-1004 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:03:17 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2501#comment-1004 [...] Synthesis « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Exp… Says: 18 April 2009 at 6:56 pm | Reply [...]

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