The ever thoughtful David Pollard has an excellent article on the Wisdom of Crowds versus the Wisdom of Witch Doctors (Consultants and Senior Management) and how to tell the difference. By Paul Sweeney.

Dancing bees help businesses describes how researchers at Cardiff University have developed an algorithm based on the honeybee waggle dance to help companies optimize their business processes.

A new survey of 1500 UK business people has shown that poor email and phone habits damage productivity rather than increase it.

Government should look to Open Source for more than software according to Demos, an influential Think Tank, in their recent report Wide Open.

Probably not with 50 billion e-mails dispatched every day wordwide but the signal to noise ratio is getting pretty bad with The Times, July 15, reporting in ONLINE, ON THE PHONE, ON THE UP that 88% of them are junk.

In How I put my husband through the hoops Amy Sutherland writing in G2 for the UK Guardian describes how she used tricks trainers use on wild animals such as dolphins, elephants and african crested cranes to modify her husbands behavior!

Dave Pollard writes an excellent article Stewardship: Remaking Traditional Companies into Natural Enterprises on the difference between traditional organisations and what he calls ‘natural enterprises’ and how to move from one to the other.

THE way the body's immune system responds when its cells are under attack has inspired a new way of protecting computer networks from viruses and hackers according to an article in the NewScientist.com news service, 20 May 2006

In Busy doing nothing Steve McKevitt author of the book City Slackers describes how every company has a ‘city slacker’: they're always on the go but they never achieve anything.

Paul Sweeney, European Marketing Director at voicesage reports that in China, the newest shopping craze is tuangou, or team buying, and it uses the aggregating power of the web and creates flash mobs focussed on creating bargains. Here's a taster…