Category Archives: Relationship Capital

Integrity – Easily Lost, Hard to Regain

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Skip Walter

In writing the blog post on “Succumbing to the Ultimate Power Trip,” I was reminded of a bookend to this experience. One of the more interesting players in the Watergate affair was Egil “Bud” Krogh. Bud was the 32 year … Continue reading →

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Growth Partners

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Skip Walter

Working with startup entrepreneurs, I am often asked “What else should I be thinking about?” Invariably the answer is “what are you doing to create growth partners?” The experienced startup entrepreneurs will think through and develop plans for a channel … Continue reading →

Posted in Idealized Design, Innovation, organizing, Relationship Capital, Value Capture | 3 Comments

Organizations Don’t Tweet, People Do – Euan Semple

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Skip Walter

Once you figure out how to dip your “knowledge net” into the stream of search engines, blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, the world just shows up at your doorstep (oops, I mean browser window).  Well, sort of.  It helps a … Continue reading →

Posted in Content with Context, Knowledge Management, Learning, organizing, Relationship Capital, social networking, User Experience | 4 Comments

Is the university experience wasted on the young?

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Skip Walter

Every now and again, the universe conspires to free up some time to do some face to face learning with terrific resources in the academic world.  After a whirlwind set of face to face meetings with professors at UW Seattle … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data, Content with Context, Knowledge Management, Learning, organizing, Relationship Capital, social networking, University, User Experience, Working in teams | 4 Comments

A Little Strategic Networking to Finish the Week

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Skip Walter

Not often enough my schedule conspires to present a strategic networking day.  An excellent article in the Harvard Business Review “How Leaders Create and Use Networks” makes the distinction between Operational Networks, Personal Networks and Strategic Networks. Most of our … Continue reading →

Posted in Intellectual Capital, organizing, Relationship Capital, social networking | 1 Comment

First, Second and Third Raters

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Skip Walter

Every startup expertise blog or book starts with telling you how important talent is in hiring and shaping the team that is going to drive the startup.  The authors assert that you should always hire “A players.”  How do you … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Learning, organizing, Relationship Capital, User Experience, Working in teams | 1 Comment

Digital Humanities – Really?

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Skip Walter

Russ Ackoff shared that the best knowledge system he knew was to have an intelligent set of graduate students that knew him.  In 1985 when we were meeting regularly, he described the joy every morning of coming in and having … Continue reading →

Posted in Content with Context, ebook, Human Centered Design, Idealized Design, Intellectual Capital, iPad, Knowledge Management, Learning, Relationship Capital, Russ Ackoff, social networking, Teaching, University, WUKID | 13 Comments

Good Software Never Dies – ALL-IN-1 becomes Enterprise Vault

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Skip Walter

In 1979, John Churin and I created an enterprise Office Automation product called ALL-IN-1.  I left the full time management of the project in 1986 and then left Digital Equipment Corporation in 1990.  For some 18 years, ALL-IN-1 generated $1 … Continue reading →

Posted in ALL-IN-1, Content with Context, Relationship Capital, social networking, User Experience, Value Capture, Wine | 8 Comments

The Making of Enterprise Software – All-IN-1

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Skip Walter

In the early 1980s I was part of Digital Equipment Corporation’s (DEC) Software Services group in Charlotte, NC.  The unit I was a part of consisted of 10 software specialists and a manager.  Due to the nature of our remote … Continue reading →

Posted in ALL-IN-1, Content with Context, Dilbert, Human Centered Design, Learning, organizing, Relationship Capital, Value Capture, Working in teams | 22 Comments

Orbiting the Giant Hairball

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Skip Walter

It’s been one of those weeks.  Today, feels like the wonderful image from a book by Gordon MacKenzie called Orbiting the Giant Hairball:  A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace.  Too many projects and too many new and wonderful … Continue reading →

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