Editor-in-Chief
Jim Hancock joined the InsideWork conversation in 2003, bringing with him a background in content design and digital movie production. He's written a dozen books and developed more than 200 digital shorts for clients including Compassion, International Justice Mission, Youth Specialties and InsideWork. His newest book is How to Volunteer Like a Pro
Brett Johnson is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson serving clients in Asia, Africa and the US. After 14 years with Price Waterhouse in the US and South Africa and stints as a partner at KPMG and Computer Sciences Corporation, Brett founded The Institute for Integration, Innovation & Impact in Silicon Valley.
Picking up on Al Lunsford’s Write What You Mean post, Jim Hancock spots a common offense against clear thinking and customer communication: Useless Data.
Jim Hancock is caught between Bernard Moon’s question, “Can You Wait On God?” and Harvard Business School professor James Haskett who wants to know, “Why Don’t Managers Think More Deeply?”
Brett Johnson is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson serving clients in Asia, Africa and the US. After 14 years with Price Waterhouse in the US and South Africa and stints as a partner at KPMG and Computer Sciences Corporation, Brett founded The Institute for Integration, Innovation & Impact in Silicon Valley.
Every August, the Education Department at Wisconsin’s Beloit College publishes a Mindset List to remind the school’s faculty — and the rest of us — what the world looks like for the incoming freshman class. Most of this year’s freshmen were born in 1990. They will enter the workforce in 2012 not knowing some things [...]
Mea (so very) Culpa
In all the excitement of launching InsideWork 3.0. one thing I missed was that while I knew Brett Johnson’s five videos on Repurposing Business were brand new every Monday, the way we presented those videos on our front page did nothing to tell you they were new every Monday. By which I mean, they all [...]
Jim Hancock interviews Brett Johnson — an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson — on transforming businesses to accomplish more than bottom line profitability.
In tightening markets, if you can’t (perhaps shouldn’t) compete on price, you can still (and certainly should) compete on service.
Pete Blackshaw — executive vice president of Nielsen Online Digital Strategic Services and author of Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3,000 — points to low-hanging fruit in an AdAge piece called Marketers [...]
What are the top ten most innovative companies? Jim Hancock takes a look, and discovers an interesting relationship between innovation and age.
InsideWork Chief Technology Officer, Sam Nguyen reports from O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention on the business implications of emerging software design principles and practices.
Jim Hancock looks at upgrading his homeowners insurance and ends up frowning.
Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge finds that cutting costs on employee health insurance can be extraordinarily expensive in terms of lost productivity.
Computer scientist and theologian Noreen Herzfeld finds a rapture-related website. We are momentarily giddy.
Malcolm Salter’s book may be the best informed treatment of Enron so far. And the questions he can’t answer may be even more significant than those he can.
“When Microsoft last week announced the launch of its new ‘hypervisor-based virtualisation technology,’ Financial Times columnist Michael Skapinker says, “I did not have a clue what it meant, but no doubt software people did.”
This is the thing about jargon… Skapinker writes:
Any group that works, plays or lives together develops its own vocabulary, often incomprehensible to [...]
Each Monday from June 30 - August 4, 2008, we’re giving away cool stuff to people who enter the hidden door: 
Every Monday the hidden door will move to a new location. Find it, click to enter, and follow the simple instructions on the other side. It’s our way of inviting you to explore the new architecture and find what InsideWork has for you.
