How data will transform business (video)

Earlier, I wrote about warehouses. Today, I'll show you a TED Talk in which Philip Evans of BCG talks about data in supply chains.

Enjoy!

Four principles for the open world (video)

At the moment, I'm reading Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World  written by Don Tapscott. In fact, I'm listening the audio book during my commute to work. My interest in his idea's grew during 'reading' the chapters.

After a while, I found out Tapscott spoke at TED some time ago. In Edingburgh he talked about openness. He explained the four principles of this concept:

• Collaboration
• Transparancy
• Sharing
• Empowerment

Along his speech, Tapscott wrote  Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles for Success .

Enjoy!

Low information diet (manifesto)

Everyday we're overwhelmed with information: e-mail, RSS, social and traditional media, television, radio, news papers, bill boards, etc. Our brains aren't able to process that much data. But how to manage this  mass of information?

Personally, I use two e-mail boxes: one of my employer and one of my own. I use them strictly for their own purpose. Therefore the information is separated and it prevents distraction. Furthermore I filter e-mail: incoming messages are sorted according to topic (project, hobby, etc.). I close my inboxes during work. A few times a day, I check my mail. But most of all: I (try to) sent short and clear messages only to people involved.

I gather a bunch of information about topics I'm interested in. Supply Chain Management, information management, ICT, innovation, lifehacking, non-fiction books, recumbent bikes, cycling and so on. RSS is a my channel of choice. It's easy to subscribe to RSS feeds (also on this blog) and read them in a feed reader, like Feedly. In fact it's so easy, my overload moved in no time to my feed reader. Now I filter the feeds with Yahoo Pipes so I receive only those messages, I'm interested in.

Tim Ferris wrote a nice manifesto about this topic and published it a ChangeThis.com. You'll find several nice tips and tricks to handle information overload. According to me, Tim is rather radical; my approach is less extreme. For those interested, Ferris wrote an interesting book with an intruguing title: The 4-Hour Workweek.

How do you manage your information?

Good luck!