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Of mice and men – John Steinbeck

barry o'gorman — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:24:10 +0000

Finally got to this book – listened to it,via www.audible.co.uk, over the last few days as I resumed my walking schedule. This story took me back to my boyhood memories of all those westerns – with ranch hands living in bunkhouses. In this case George and Lenny arrive at the ranch looking for work. Lenny [...]

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Way back when – The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

barry o'gorman — Fri, 31 May 2013 07:28:22 +0000

Just finished listening to ‘The Burgess Boys’. Excellent story of two brother and their sister – I guess calling the book ‘the Burgess brothers and their sister’ was too much hard work. The book is set in New York and Maine and concerns two brothers living in New York and their sister living in Maine. [...]

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What do we mean or suggest by a German hegemony in 2013?

barry o'gorman — Mon, 06 May 2013 08:00:33 +0000

Just read two articles from the Irish Times: Derek Scally’s piece: Germany would have much to lose from a Eurozone failure., and Dan O’Brien’s Paying German workers more is a win-win fro Europe. Both pieces are written from a different angle while both recognising the power and influence now exercised by Germany across Europe. We are well [...]

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Review of @AJKeen #digital vertigo

barry o'gorman — Sat, 04 May 2013 20:58:49 +0000

One of the very few books I have reread. Andrew Keen’s book is a brilliant critique of social networking as we know it. Keen did his research – be that it looking back to ancient philosophers, the history of computing, social change in the US and globally – and has managed to explain much of [...]

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Questioning the value of the online experience

barry o'gorman — Thu, 02 May 2013 22:33:17 +0000

Just finished reading Digital Vertigo by Andrew Keen. Excellent book – should be compulsory reading for anyone like me who spends a reasonable amount of time participating in/ contributing to social networks. Questions the value of much of this – and the gradual elimination of privacy. More of this anon. This piece from the Verge [...]

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What makes teams pull through?

barry o'gorman — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:55:49 +0000

Three recent football matches again had me thinking about what we are often looking for in work. Munster won a Heineken Cup quarterfinal match against the odds away to Harlequins. Leinster won against Munser in Thomond Park. And last night I watched an underage GAA football team turn at half time to play into a [...]

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Listening rather than reading

Barry OGorman — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:14:59 +0000

Audible.co.uk affords me the opportunity to read lots.

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Is the CIO the person to take IT forward?

Barry OGorman — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:14:19 +0000

Are companies well served by their CIOs? In many cases senior executives and boards are sceptical, at best, as to what is being delivered off the back of significant investment in Information Technology. Is the CIO part of the problem or part of the solution? Where businesses have a strategy – against which they are [...]

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UK – gathering momentum for electronic health records

Barry OGorman — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:49:09 +0000

Good to see that US push on electronic health records has not gone unnoticed elsewhere. UK Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, seems to be push adoption of electronic records and alluding to the nonsense which is the current situation. Will be interesting to see whether UK government seeks to push some real pounds sterling behind the [...]

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Ongoing challenges for traditional retail businesses

Barry OGorman — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:16:15 +0000

Today we read about appointment of Deloitte as administrator to HMV. As I see my kids charging my credit card, again, last night for downloading songs to their ipods. This is the reality. My kids do not need to go to a HMV store to buy music. In fact over Christmas we were in a [...]

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