I read this today (I won’t say where because I have no wish to embarrass the writer or the publication): In the heart of Africa, energy giant Total is about to build the biggest heated oil pipeline in the world. To […]
Author: Dave McClure
The Professor, the Owl and the Pussycat
Our Professor of Physics was fond of explaining the difference between the Owl and the Pussycat. “The Pussycat” he would intone, “when cast into the middle of a pond, is powerless (once in flight) to avoid his fate. We see […]
Conquering Lockdown
Introduction Great numbers of us are suddenly facing the prospect either of working from home in our substantive positions or, in many cases, reinventing ourselves as wholly self-employed workers. Home working can bring great opportunities but there are also challenges, […]
How to Write a Business Case
What is a Business Case? A Business Case is a rigorous (and usually financial) advocacy of a preferred course of action, clearly presented for objective scrutiny. What is a Project? A Project is a programme of effort and capital expenditure […]
Old equipment loves old people
If you are planning to create a digital asset archive from legacy content on film and/or redundant video tape and cassette formats, here’s a tip: Don’t recruit fresh young operators to staff the transcription processes. You will only land yourself […]