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Sig Rinde

Born in Norway, lived in Switzerland and Spain, now living in the south of France. Educated at ETH Zürich, Switzerland and INSEAD, France. Done multiple LBOs, founded a few companies and advised on Mergers & Acquisitions world wide. Now entirely focused on Enterprise Software and a radical break with all former how-to-run-your-business assumptions and systems architecture - distilled into a new solution named Thingamy. Spending time off running orienteering races, cycling, skiing and snowboarding.
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Enterprise Apps User Interface – the wrong discussion

Enterprise Apps User Interface – the wrong discussion

By Sig Rinde on March 10, 2010

Imagine an Enterprise App with UI design lifted from World of Warcraft? A tad gothic? But games work, kids dive into them in droves and never seem to scratch their heads. Electronic games now being a bigger industry than the…

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Elegant Organisations? Daily Simplicity? Fugetaboutit!

Elegant Organisations? Daily Simplicity? Fugetaboutit!

By Sig Rinde on March 2, 2010

“Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem” Occam’s razor keeps it simple – “entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity”. Or in short form; simple is better. A basic philosophy of science – simple is better. Einstein could be a signatory…

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Enterprise Software’s blind spot

Enterprise Software’s blind spot

By Sig Rinde on February 19, 2010

A Project is a temporary activity or sequence of activities with a specific goal initiated by an issue, an idea or a request, often with multiple participants. It is usually unstructured, at least somewhat unpredictable and hence Barely Repeatable. There…

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Work Flows and Wealth Creation

Work Flows and Wealth Creation

By Sig Rinde on February 2, 2010

Inseparable since the beginning. Following the last post about Information, Knowledge, Wisdom and Innovation let’s add one particularly interesting and dynamic object organiser, an object by itself: The Workflow. The representation of a particular sequence where value is created and…

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Information, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Innovation

Information, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Innovation

By Sig Rinde on January 19, 2010

These four concepts makes humanity move forward. They’re basic requirements for every day work as well as for Big Important Decisions, hence nothing to take lightly. Indeed, if possible to grasp, sort, handle, and model efficiently we would all be…

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Process Engine + Social Media -> Thingamy & ESME

Process Engine + Social Media -> Thingamy & ESME

By Sig Rinde on January 7, 2010

Image by Now I’m Always Smiling via Flickr

For a long while I’ve been keeping an eye on the E 2.0, collaboration and social media efforts meant for enterprise use. I have to admit to being a sceptic, still viewing such as mainly single-task tools with little or no process and mostly lacking any way to [...]

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How not to do it – 12sprints and Chatter

How not to do it – 12sprints and Chatter

By Sig Rinde on December 21, 2009

More and more Enterprise Software vendors (and users) have their “aha!” moments, getting the reality that “unstructured”, Barely Repeatable Processes are immensely important. Not only happens about 60% of all work in such processes, but no proper process based IT…

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It’s so strange here…

It’s so strange here…

By Sig Rinde on December 15, 2009

As a kid I was a huge fan of a Norwegian poet named Sigbjørn Obstfelder, a contemporary and friend of Edvard Munch (I’m a big fan of him as well). [Drawing by Oda Krogh, Wikimedia Commons] Now, many years later,…

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Office work is like shovelling snow

Office work is like shovelling snow

By Sig Rinde on December 9, 2009

When I entered the work force I lived in a log cabin in the woods, only connected by a footpath to the road, very romantic, but with a few “hardships” thrown in. When winter hit, nightly snowfalls had me out…

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No…

No…

By Sig Rinde on December 4, 2009

No container, then no content. No data context, then no meaning. No process, then no business. No presence, then no record. Words makes no sense unless they’re arranged sequentially on paper or in a text or html file, i.e. held…

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