Catching up after an eventful summer

I am never very impressed when people start up blogs, keep them going for a while, then the posts dry up. So, I am a little bit embarrassed that it has been three months since my last post here. In my defence, I did declare right at the beginning that this was an extracurricular activity and that the day job would have to take precedent. Nevertheless, apologies to anyone left out there with Open Reasoning on their watch list.

So what’s being going on that’s prevented me from posting here?

Well project fulfilment work for one thing. Demand for the kind of services we offer at Freeform Dynamics, with a focus on short, sharp high impact research studies and consulting engagements, seems to be growing, despite what’s going on with the economy. I wonder if this has to do with budget pressures driving a shift in emphasis from ongoing subscription services, which don’t necessarily deliver stuff in sync with business requirements, to procuring tailored services on demand that are designed to address an immediate need and have a more obvious and direct payback. Not sure, but it would make sense. It will also be interesting to see whether free research output plays more of a role over time.

In the meantime, I feel compelled to point out that I have actually been writing elsewhere – check out the site if you are interested. Indeed, with nine people in the research team now, there is a pretty steady stream of content coming out of the Freeform Dynamics camp, so if you haven’t subscribed to our site RSS feed yet, get onto that now!

I’ll just mention one last thing for the record. Quite a few people out there are aware that I was suffering a bit health-wise over the summer, spent a short time in hospital, and was ‘grounded’ for a while when I got out. So, I would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for their support over that period and understanding when had to cancel meetings and events. I am pretty much fully back in the saddle now, though, so expect me out and about on the briefing and events circuit again pretty soon. I have a feeling the coming few months are going to be pretty interesting in lots of different ways.