3ruce’s Blog

• The Outsourcing Weblog: The Outsourcing Relationship
  Thoughts on making outsourcing relationships work
  (tags: outsourcing relationships success organisational_design strategy statistics)
• Outsourcing Success Is All About the Relationship
  More on the importance of outsourcing relationships
  (tags: outsourcing relationships problems contracts strategy profitability)
• Online Dating UK – yesnomayB.co.uk Dating. Reinvented.
  A speed datingy site, looks good
  (tags: collaboration dating social web2.0)
• MIT SMR Article, “Six Myths About Informal Networks — and How to Overcome Them” – Spring 2002 Rob Cross, Nitin Nohria and Andrew Parker. Reprint 4337
  Informal networks and sna
  (tags: sna values value_networks research academics organisational_design collaboration)
• Will you still love me tomorrow? How to stay happy with your sourcing partner?
  More on outsourcing relationships
  (tags: outsourcing relationships problems collaboration organisational_design)
• davidmaister.com > Passion, People and Principles > How to Get Ahead: Lie and Cheat?
  People like to lie and cheat, especially in business
  (tags: principles lies ethics transparency research)

Tokyo Afternoon, originally uploaded by /\ltus.

Dazzling

Slipway into the North Sea, originally uploaded by Rob-H.

Between worlds

• Performancing.com | Helping Bloggers Succeed
  Revenue sharing for bloggers
  (tags: advertising blogging research content information internet traffic services)
• Genevieve Tennant – Associates must help themselves
  Talent management in law firms and Allen and Overy. Pay v. behaviours and culture
  (tags: culture behaviours psychology salaries talent-management law allen_and_overy)
• SwarmCreativity
  SNA type software… looks interesting
  (tags: collaboration creativity innovation management sna metrics software)
• TeCFlow Manual Page
  More SNA, this time in the form of software
  (tags: collaboration communication networking opensource research software sna)
• Practitioner Perspectives on Value Networks and Knowledge Innovation: Value Networks – Tip of the Day – VNA is NOT SNA or process!
  An Introduction to Value Network Analysis
  (tags: value value_network_analysis research methods principles perceptions gaps)
• Open Value Networks
  Value network and strategy tools
  (tags: strategy value Value_Networks sna research software principles metrics)
• Making outsourcing relationships work – SharedXpertise – Business transformation, shared services, business process outsourcing
  Thoughts on getting outsourcing relationshipss to work
  (tags: outsourcing relationships productivity collaboration profitability)
• Frustration in relationships & trouble ahead for BPO: Gartner – SharedXpertise – Business transformation, shared services, business process outsourcing
  Tough times with BPO relationships
  (tags: gartner bpo relationships problems behaviours profitability)

Photographic Psychology: Shooting Clones, originally uploaded by John Suler.

Cheeky!

Canary Wharf, originally uploaded by Dave Gorman.

Spacey

Tiger_Shark_02, originally uploaded by Pelagic Drifter.

Coming atcha….

Swan: light and shadows…, originally uploaded by gardawind.

Contrasts…

Hawaii 06 – Ko’olina evening, originally uploaded by J!.

Stunning