Hiya Some of you might have seen my post where I explained how how my daughter, Ashlee (18), won a competition from Microsoft to develop a fidget spinner app. Well if you think that was impressive, check this out… Inspired …

Incredible! Download a PowerApp that determines your IQ from a selfie… Read more »

As I write this I am somewhere over the middle of Australia, flying back to Perth after participating in a 3 day event that was fun, challenging and highly insightful. The conference was Creative Melbourne, and I am proud to …

Rediscovering my curiosity at Creative Melbourne Read more »

Hi all If you are not aware, my colleagues and I have spend a large chunk of the last few years developing a software tool for SharePoint called Glyma (pronounced “Glimmer”). Glyma is a very powerful  knowledge management solution for …

Glyma is now open source! Read more »

Hi all Just to let you know that I’ll be presenting a webinar with Christian Buckley on the topic of Glyma, Knowledge Management and SharePoint next week. If you have an interest in things like workforce planning, knowledge capture, project …

A free IT Unity Webinar: Rewriting the Rulebook for Managing Knowledge Read more »

Like it or not, there is a tectonic shift going on in the IT industry right now, driven primarily by the availability of a huge variety of services hosted in the cloud. Over the last few years, organisations are increasingly …

Help me visualise the pros and cons of hybrid SharePoint 2013… Read more »

“If Jeff ever leaves…” I’m sure you have experienced the “Oh crap” feeling where you have a problem and Jeff is on vacation or unavailable. Jeff happens to be one of those people who’s worked at your organisation for years …

Rewriting the knowledge management rulebook… The story of “Glyma” for SharePoint Read more »

My business partner, Chris Tomich, is the John Deacon of Seven Sigma. In case you do not know who John Deacon is, he is the bass player from Queen who usually said very little publicly and didn’t write that many …

“Assumption is the mother of all f**k ups” Read more »

Hi all Welcome to part five of my quest to improve people’s awareness and understanding of what SharePoint maturity is really all about. For those new to this series of articles, we have traversed a bit of territory to get …

Rethinking SharePoint Maturity Part 5: From Conditions to Actionable Lessons Learnt Read more »

Hi all Welcome to part 3 in this series about rethinking what SharePoint “maturity” looks like. In the first post, I introduced the work of JR Hackman and his notion of trying to create enabling conditions, rather than attribute cause …

Rethinking SharePoint Maturity Part 3: Who moved my cheese? Read more »