If you're trying to navigate your way through my web sites,
you'll see that I maintain a number of web personas. This web site is
pretty well the only one where I'm really an individual. As a result,
it's flow may be less formal, and may meander a bit more than the
others. On my community web sites, I confer with my co-authors. On this
one ... I just do it!
Here's a map of the web sites accessible on the menu bar.
This is a personal weblog, which has evolved somewhat into a photoblog. Distractions, because I'm writing in
a blog while I should probably be doing something else. Reflections,
because it's mature to think (and it's rare for me to stop)! You'll
find an irregular trail of places I've been, and people I see. I try to
leave the names a bit ambiguous, but if you've met me in person, you
may have heard me mention some of these people.
This is my professional weblog. My employer, IBM, is encouraging
blogging
as a way to build community in the larger business
ecosystem. You'll find this weaving between high-level business
strategy, hands-on web technologies, and some academic research.
In 2006, coevolving.com originated as collaborative writing by three IBM consultants: Doug McDavid, Martin
Gladwell, and myself. Doug, Martin and I have worked together on various Academy of Technology
studies around the "Business-IT gap", business architecture, and the
emerging roles of business transformation architects and a "chief
business architect". One motivation for blogging together was to bridge the distances between Sacramento, California,
Nottingham, UK, and Toronto, Canada.
At the end of 2006, the three of us consciously agreed to end
the three-way venture, but then I resurrected the blog for content in
which my family would likely be uninterested.
The Systemic Business
Community was the first community web site, and certainly the
oldest. It originated as subgroup of the International
Society for the Systems Sciences, in particular the
Special Integration Group on Systems Applications in Business and
Industry. This is a loosely coupled group, and we expend
varying degrees of energy at different time. We do think that the
systemic approach is an essential foundation to good business, and thus
continue to do research together — both in internal and external
permutations. This blog is updated most irregularly, as the originators have scattered around the world.
In a collaboration with Minna Takala
and Taina
Tukainen, I'm a co-researcher in a two-year research project (September
2006 - September 2008) centered in Finland, on innovation
implementation and innovation measurements. This web site
includes content for a Masters's
program in International Service Business Management at the Helsinki
Polytechnic Stadia.
There's some writing that really doesn't belong on the Systemic Business
Community — such as lectures that I do off the cuff, or
homework assignments for graduate studies(!) It may be useful to
someone on the Internet, however, so you're welcome to look at it.
I've discovered that one good way of writing and
redrafting papers it to use a wiki. In
particular, I really like DokuWiki, which
is designed specifically for non-fiction writing (e.g. footnotes).
Parts of this web site are password-protected. (A requirement of
dissertation work is a demonstration that it's truly and independent
work). If you really want to see the content, just ask!
At the 20th reunion of the class of 1982 for the Kellogg
School at Northwestern University in May 2002, a small group
of us were disappointed that the turnout was so small. In anticipation
of the 25th reunion in May 2007, I've put up a wiki
where we can share stories. There's password protection on the site,
but if you were at Kellogg sometime between 1980 and 2002, you should
be able to figure that out. Send me news!
As apart from my own webmastering, some of my family have
content on the Internet. There's a blog and wiki there. I'll tend to
keep most of my content over here. Why IngWu? "Ing" is an anglicization
from my grandfather. "Ing", sometimes known as "Ng" in anglicized
Cantonese, and is "Wu" in standardized Mandarin (in the Pinyin phonetic
spelling). We're from the Taishan / Toisan / Hoisan
county in China. In particular, my father's village is Kaiping / Hoy Ping.
(There's a variety of names of "wu" in Chinese surnames.
Our character is found properly spelled on ingwu.com).
This is the most unreliable server that I use. It's a
computer in my basement, so if you don't get a connection, let me know,
and I'll reset the router and/or modem. I discourage identifying the
faces of the people photographed, so you either know who these people
are, or you don't! Direct access to specific sections is available for:
Since the address is really unwieldly, the easiest way
to get to the server is to remember ingwu.com/snapshots.
From there, you can get to: