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Wired Magazine's Gary Wolf has an extensive profile of Getting Things Done author David Allen in the October 2007 issue.
Allen's GTD system is a heuristic for time and workflow management popular in Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley firms. GTD gained visibility after The Atlantic Monthly's James Fallow profiled Allen in its July/August 2004 issue. New York Times columnist Clive Thompson also mentioned Allen and GTD in an influential article on the "life hacking" movement, which includes sites such as Lifehacker and Merlin Mann's 43 Folders. Allen has parlayed this exposure into the coaching firm David Allen & Co. and its subscription online community GTD Connect. Lockheed, Microsoft Research and O'Reilly Media have all applied or debated Allen's GTD in their research environments.
Wired Magazine's Gary Wolf has an extensive profile of Getting Things Done author David Allen in the October 2007 issue.
Allen's GTD system is a heuristic for time and workflow management popular in Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley firms. GTD gained visibility after The Atlantic Monthly's James Fallow profiled Allen in its July/August 2004 issue. New York Times columnist Clive Thompson also mentioned Allen and GTD in an influential article on the "life hacking" movement, which includes sites such as Lifehacker and Merlin Mann's 43 Folders. Allen has parlayed this exposure into the coaching firm David Allen & Co. and its subscription online community GTD Connect. Lockheed, Microsoft Research and O'Reilly Media have all applied or debated Allen's GTD in their research environments.
Professor Michael Fry of the University of Sydney has offered public details about the Smart Services CRC's project in Multi-Channel Content Delivery. Professor Fry is seeking research students for two deliverables that can be taken as credit-bearing subjects: Trends in Mobile Technologies & Services and Emerging Vehicular Technical and Service Environments. From the second project's description:
I also had a 2006 conversation with the CRC's Dean Economou about XM Satellite Radio's financial troubles in the United States market. XM had established a new market channel through a factory installation deal with GM. Economou countered that Australia lacked the mature market for satellite radio to be scalable in the same way.
In March 2007 shortly before leaving the Smart Internet CRC I discussed the sensor and wireless networks aspects with Swinburne University's Professor Ryszard Kowalcyk. The details remain "commercial in confidence" and Kowalcyk impressed me with his team's knowledge, which will be vital to the Smart Services CRC.
The business trends dimension of Professor Fry's project is important because his team already faces a probable major competitor.
The project will study and analyse technical and business trends in vehicular ICT environments. The project is not about core automotive technologies, but rather addresses new and emerging in-vehicle sensors and wireless networks, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and networks, vehicle-roadside communications and networks, and their capabilities and possibilities for the provision of new services to vehicle users such as context-aware navigation and traffic congestion avoidance. Potential convergence with other in-vehicle technologies such as digital radio, mobile telephones, etc, should also be considered.In 2006 a senior project manager explained to me that the Royal Automobile Association of Victoria and its state counterparts were undergoing some fundamental shifts in customers, markets and their management portfolio for members. For example, the drivers for vehicle-roadside communication included the RACV's expansion into hotel and resort management. In return, I pointed the senior project manager to Peter Morville's book Ambient Findability (O'Reilly Media, Sebastapol CA, 2005), and his discussion of wayfinding, or how people use symbols and objects to spatially orient themselves when navigating. Wayfinding is thus relevant to developing context awareness in physical and virtual worlds.
I also had a 2006 conversation with the CRC's Dean Economou about XM Satellite Radio's financial troubles in the United States market. XM had established a new market channel through a factory installation deal with GM. Economou countered that Australia lacked the mature market for satellite radio to be scalable in the same way.
In March 2007 shortly before leaving the Smart Internet CRC I discussed the sensor and wireless networks aspects with Swinburne University's Professor Ryszard Kowalcyk. The details remain "commercial in confidence" and Kowalcyk impressed me with his team's knowledge, which will be vital to the Smart Services CRC.
The business trends dimension of Professor Fry's project is important because his team already faces a probable major competitor.
