by Jim Smelley | Oct 17, 2016 | Other
I’m sitting across the counter from my husband while he expresses his frustration. Loudly. “When you add up the rate we pay, the usage charge and all of these fees, these people are charging us 15 cents per kilowatt hour.” He’s not happy. Neither am I. When we lived...
by Jim Smelley | Aug 9, 2016 | Productivity
Last week was one of those non-stop weeks. There were a million little things that needed to be done: emails, responses, calendar invites, social media stuff, work stuff, personal stuff, lots (and lots) of stuff. And each one of these activities started another set of...
by Jim Smelley | Jun 8, 2016 | CIO Concerns, Project Management, Strategy
This is a comic about how to deal with the IT maze which has emerged, in many organizations, as a result of the increased success of software projects.
by Jim Smelley | Mar 14, 2016 | Other
A Thought Comic about yoga, improv, and accepting your mistakes.
by Jim Smelley | Oct 18, 2015 | CIO Concerns, Delivery Methods, Organization
A few weeks ago at Thought Crunch (Thought Ensemble’s digital idea brainstorming event), one of my teammates (Brent Lemons) brought up a touchy subject. It was a topic about how to organize people. We work with many organizations looking to build digital products...
by Jim Smelley | Sep 9, 2015 | Technology
My first couple of months with Alexa (a.k.a. Amazon Echo) were pretty disappointing. She could play the news, tune in to a radio station, and (with a little effort) play music from my iTunes library. She had a decent speaker and really good voice recognition, but at...
