Seradigm is a niche consultancy specialising in strategy. Our areas of focus include information management, information systems, e-Government, and facilitation in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
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Recent thoughts
Why Twitter is like, and not like, living in an intentional community
My attitude to Twitter and the concept of microblogging has changed dramatically in the last 18 months. I've gone from "that's stupid, why would anyone use that" to "I would find living without Twitter very difficult indeed". In the last month or so, I've started noticing some similarities between using Twitter, and living in an intentional community. I've also noticed some marked differences. More »
IM Trends 4 - Doing SharePoint wrong, and right
In this fourth post on information management trends in NZ, I look at the phenomenon that is SharePoint. The key trend I'm picking is that given the shear number of deployments we're seeing in NZ, and the capability of some of the solution partners and consultants, by 2010/11 we're going to see lots of very bad implementations of SharePoint, and some very good ones. More »
IM Trends 3 - Enterprise Social Computing
I'm an early adopter. I started Christchurch's first web design company in 1995. I'm onto my 3rd iPhone. But when I first saw Twitter I didn't get it. I thought it was stupid. Now I couldn't live without it. Social computing brings this kind of tool inside the organisation. My prediction is that enterprise social computing is going to be big in NZ, in the 2010/11 timeframe. More »
IM Trends 2 - CMIS will save us
One of the big challenges for Enterprise Content Management in the last few years has been the sharing of content across different repositories and systems. Traditionally the only way to get sharing/reuse/blending of different content types across different stores was to buy all of the solution components from one vendor. Enter CMIS - the Content Management Interoperability Services standard. Think of it in the same light as the way major database vendors standardised on SQL in the 1980s. More »