One evening in the second half of August 1906, the well-to-do Warren family, vacationing in Oyster Bay, Long Island, had their favourite dessert: fresh sliced

peaches, served with ice cream. It was a speciality of their cook for the summer, Mary Mallon. Ice cream was still a small luxury, and August had been hot. The temperature in central New York had peaked in the mid-thirties Celsius at the start of the month, and it had been thundery and humid, with frequent storms, followed by a prolonged dry spell. It was much healthier to be out of the city in such weather – typhoid, an endemic disease in the United States at that time, was particularly active in the hot summer months, and it thrived in urban environments.

Posted on 30 April 2003

Every day, an Ethiopian entrepreneur goes to the only cybercafe in the capital, at the Meridien Hotel, Addis Ababa. There he logs into a website he has set up in America, and he checks the orders he has received from Ethiopian cab drivers in New York, for goats to be sent to their families back home.

Posted on 10 January 2002

How To Do Business Network Analysis: Part I 

In this 26 July 2007 talk for the Information and Knowledge Management Society in Singapore (now defunct) Graham Durant-Law of Holistech explains how you can use social network analysis (SNA) to get actionable insights into your business - a technique he terms business network analysis. In Part 1 Graham introduces the basic concepts.

How To Do Business Network Analysis: Part II

In this 26 July 2007 talk for the Information and Knowledge Management Society in Singapore  Graham Durant-Law of Holistech explains how you can use social network analysis (SNA) to get actionable insights into your business - a technique he terms business network analysis. In Part 2 Graham takes us through the steps and issues to consider in a business network analysis, including a couple of test cases.

How To Do Business Network Analysis: Part III

In this 26 July 2007 talk for the Information and Knowledge Management Society in Singapore Graham Durant-Law of Holistech explains how you can use social network analysis (SNA) to get actionable insights into your business - a technique he terms business network analysis. In Part 3 Graham debriefs the group discussions and takes us through essential references and resources.