News flash: Cat mops don't work.

"Chindogu", are the weird and wonderful inventions from Japan. They provide solutions that are simultaneously ingenious and ridiculous. The creativity is admirable, but you wouldn't really do it that way...would you?

Wrong. People, in fact, many people, really do. When bad practices produce spectacularly observable bad outcomes, they get fixed. If the outcome is bad but not spectacularly observable, it is remedied with a shrug of the shoulders. Plane and train crashes lead to commissions of inquiry. Office workers sitting in uninspiring meetings do not.

As organisations form and grow, the design, storage and sharing of information are left to the information technologists. While IT provide many excellent solutions, it doesn't end there. Users should optimise their interaction with all of the IT solutions they are using. Many don't know how to do this.

If the additional IT solution is one or two or more too many, it creates additional work without additional productivity. If it results in a pilot or a train driver crashing, it gets fixed. We have processes for that. But in your office...(shrug shoulders now).

My Information Coach is about promoting understanding and providing practical solutions to how you perceive, process and interact with the world. The focus is not on information or software, but on you. With the right training tools and techniques, your results will be better. Moreover, you won't be using "cat mops" to clean your floor!