Business Metrics and "I.T. Event Horizons"

Is there any reason the "Public Service", as we call paid Government Administration in Australia, isn't the benchmark for good Management and Governance??

Summary: This piece proposes 5 simple metrics that reflect, but are not in themselves pay or performance measures for, management effectiveness and competence:

• Meeting efficiency and effectiveness,
• Time Planning/Use and Task Prioritisation,
• Typing Speed,
• Tool/I.T. Competence: speed and skill in basic PC, Office Tools and Internet tools and tasks, and
• E-mail use (sent, read, completed, in-progress, pending, never resolved, personal, social, other).

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Bad Science or Science Done Badly?

Is 'Science', as practiced by Academic Researchers, executed poorly?

More specifically:
Is the practice of Research as undertaken by Academics, as effective as it could be?

This posits that an aspect of "Professional Research" is intentionally increasing your capability and effectiveness.

Computing/Information Technology is a Cognitive Amplifier - exactly suited to central parts of "Professional Research" - e.g. learning, recalling and searching published papers and books.

If an individual researcher can increase their "knowledge uptake" just 7% in a year, after a decade they know twice as much, given uptake builds on existing knowledge.

What is Research about if not Knowledge: Gathering, Analysis, Representation, Taxonomy/Ontology, Management and Communication?
This field began in 1995 and is broadly known as "Knowledge Management".

Startups: selecting and nuturing.

A comment on Paul Grahams post Why to Not Not Start a Startup.

Paul along with Robert T Morris (author of the 1988 Morris Worm, now MIT assoc. professor) run a Venture Capital firm.
They run Startup School as well. An exceptional idea.

At the end of this is a list of Paul's 16 points.