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Three ways to improve British Productivity. The Solow Paradox - and how it's been solved. Innovation key to Scottish Government's plan. North Sea a third full: challenges and opportunities. IT Trends for 2014. Softengines - Latest News. The term "ICT" should be dropped. ICT Replaced in Schools by Computer Science. Education pipeline failing to deliver 'hard' skills. Guidelines for a Web 2.0 educator. Jon Bon Jovi is not dead. And the Joys of Twitter. No SQL - what is Softengines up to.
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Three ways to improve British Productivity. Productivity is now a key issue for the UK economy. How much we produce, as a nation, per hour, is now 30% less than Germany, the US and France, we are even 10% less productive the Italians. According to the OECD. This weak productivity is problem for us because it keeps wages low, which in turn keeps economic growth stagnant. The cause of this poor productivity can be put down to three major factors, investment, management, skills, and the lack of them. The ed...
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Innovation key to Scottish Government's plan. The Scottish Government has launched its latest economic plan. This is the vision thing for raising economic productivity alongside improving social inclusion. This policy document outlines an agenda that includes nurturing a culture of innovation, entrepreneurial ambition and a greater international outlook. According to the plan technological change is one of the key drivers of productivity and growth. Http:/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotl...Http:/ ww...
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Guidelines for a Web 2.0 Educator. Education in general is one area where Web 2.0 promises benefits as well as difficulties. Someone on Twitter has already grabbed that portmanteau, tweatcher. However I thought it worth defining and expounding on the role of an educator teaching Web 2.0 in a Web 2.0 way, a teacher 2.0 if you like, with the following guidelines. More on www.nmk.co.uk . Softengines is available to support and deliver education and skills development. Back to Blog Home Page.
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Saras Sarasvathy set out to identify what makes individuals entrepreneurial. Through discussions with successful business people, getting then think aloud while working through a set of problems, she was able to analyse their thought processes. The distinctive way an entrepreneur thinks is described as effectual reasoning or effectuation. Read more: What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial? Email: duncan@softengines.co.uk. Registered in Scotland No.435831.
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The Solow Paradox and how it s been solved. Robert Solow made the observation "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics". This quote became known as the Solow Paradox and spawned much research and analysis. The words of a distinguished professor were gospel or at least merited further investigation. Time and research however has shown this passing comment is not true. Why then is IT still regarded as an enemy of productivity? How do you define productivity? Also the time...
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The real Duncan Stonebridge (as opposed to the fictional, BBC Radio 4 Duncan Stonebridge MP) lives in rural Aberdeenshire. Born in Clevedon near Bristol in 1970, but largely brought up in the Scottish Highlands, I was educated at Edinburgh University, and then Inverness College, where I graduated in 1996 with a HND in Computing. Later in 2002 I undertook an M Phil research Masters in computer Science at the University of Wales Bangor. [more.]. Softengines is my personal service company.
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If you do have the hardware and the networks, using software designed for the web instead of more convectional desktop applications could have many advantages. It can be easily installed, set up, easy to use and cheaper, as the necessary software licences can cost nothing. For example familiar web browsers can be used to access databases on a server. Email: duncan@softengines.co.uk. Registered in Scotland No.435831. The 7 Heresies of Agile. Three ways to improve British Productivity.
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Softengines has now signed the manifesto for software craftsmanship. This manifesto follows on from and extends the manifesto for agile software development. And whether it is self-evidently an oxymoron. Stands alone as a suitable mission statement for anyone in the profession. For more information on agile software development, read The New Methodology. By Martin Fowler, also I would recommend The Cathedral and the Bazaar. By Eric Steven Raymond for different perspective on creating software.
