Monthly Archives: January 2009

Review: The Difference

Posted on Jan 25, 2009 by sim

The positive impacts of diversity have been discussed in many areas such as innovation management – I’ve also touched the topic more than once. However, most evidence for this has been anecdotal or based on experience. The Difference: how the … Continue reading →

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Family gender balance restored

Posted on Jan 23, 2009 by sim

Through the birth of our son earlier this week, that is: This is the Big Change #1 of several expected this year. So far everyone’s doing fine, but being a bit busy finding and settling into new routines means slower … Continue reading →

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Fraud enablers, customer non-knowledge and more

Posted on Jan 14, 2009 by sim

Could we maybe sell you the same thing twice? Or more? Don’t companies know anything about their customers? With customer relationship management, targeted & personalized advertisement etc increasingly important, I fail to understand how some basic stuff can be missing. … Continue reading →

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Winter photos

Posted on Jan 9, 2009 by sim

Over the past week or so, we temporarily got some respectable winter weather with temperatures hovering around -10C – -20C. Yet there was very little or no snow in most of southern Finland; that made for some interesting possibilities like … Continue reading →

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2008 in pictures

Posted on Jan 1, 2009 by sim

First off, Happy New Year 2009 to everyone! To begin with a small piece of food for thought, here’s a nice quote that I found: New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march … Continue reading →

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