Articles

The Ten-Minute Legal-Pro MBA:
Business and finance concepts explained simply for legal professionals (May 2007).
Designing Applications for Global Performance:
What to look for, and why, in determining how well an application will function on distributed networks (January 2007).
KM@Microsoft: What Works, & What Doesn't:
Why effective knowledge management (KM) systems are astonishingly hard to develop (December 2005; requires free registration).

Talks

The Ten Laws of IT:
Are you delivering full value from Information Technology shop? Here are ten guideposts to help IT get closer to its promise. (March 2009)
The Power of 2x2 Matrices:
A talk for consultants, business analysts, and others interested in a fresh look at a powerful technique for rethinking business problems. (February 2009)
Two Minutes with Steven Levy:
A brief visual (non-narrated) overview of who Steve is and what he's done in the past few years. (January 2009)
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..NoCCrit

What's a CCrit?

It's a (bad) pun. Or an admission that it's hard to come up with a memorable Internet domain.

It’s short for “Content: Critical.” In other words, stuff worth knowing.

It’s short for “Communication: Critical.” That's my way of trying to stir the pot just a bit.

It's short for “Context: Critical.” Or all the info your manager didn't tell you... but should have.

It's short for “Corporate: Critical.” Companies large and small are scrambling these days to create systems that work: IT systems, project systems, HR and legal systems, people systems. What got them here won't get them further.

It's life lessons from the school of hard rocks.

Why keep it a CCrit?