consultaglobal

 I just read Eigthbar’s blog on porting Google SketchUp’s designs to SecondLife. While I’ve been playing with the idea of a “consultaglobal” presence in Second Life, I have not made a decision yet. In the meantime, I’ve designed the basic 3D environment you see in this picture using SketchUp. I’m now working on understanding whether blogging can be somehow enhanced in an immersive GUI, such as SL’s.

The first thing that comes to mind is using the largest wall as a digital display with hyperlinks enabling visitors to access this blog on a browser such as Firefox. This concept would get a bit more interesting if the “wall” could also show blog updates, RSS feeds sync up. The next step would be enabling SL residents to post comments, thus creating an asynchronous communication bridge between SL and reality. Chances are, someone has already done this. So, I’ll do some research to see what I can learn.

Jose de Francisco Lopez. Chicago, 13/06/07

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This blog’s Long Tail:

• QoE: Immersive environments and experiential marketing
• Blogging from SL, user experience
• Corporations present at SL
• Blogging from SL

References:

• Read Tim O’Reilly’s comments on SketchUP, Google Earth and Second Life.
• Blender is listed on SL’s Kwnoledge Base under “other resources“.

Avery’s executives were concerned about time to market delays, which were apparently due to the length of the company’s process to turn ideas into commercial products.

However, the problem actually was a bottleneck aggravated by jumpstarting too many new projects, coupled with project plans that did not account for contingencies and cross-functional dependencies. Today, they are bettering their operations by focusing on a smaller number of projects.

In my view, what this type of situation requires is:

• Real Options and Opportunity Cost analysis: valuating options available, assessing the merits and trade offs of each project, making portfolio decisions that prevent minor projects from impacting development on the critical ones. As a result, the team is more focused and resources are not unnecessarily taxed.

• CCPM, Critical Chain Project Management: putting more emphasis on the resources required to execute project tasks than on rigid scheduling. This means implementing buffer management and keeping resources levelly loaded, being flexible in start times, quickly switching between tasks and task chains to keep projects on schedule.

Jose de Francisco Lopez. Chicago, 13/06/07

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This blog’s Long Tail:

• Innovation, a waste of money
• Top 10 innovation myths
• The cash curve
• Turning ideas into dollars
• Turning innovation into cash
• Profit driven innovation
• The myth of commoditization
• Innovation in motion
• Innovation must be managed
• Value innovation
• Lessons not learned
• Powered by innovation
• Spending less on R&D

References: Avery,  George Group Consulting LP

Please read George Ander’s article on WSJ’s Career Journal.com