Getting Shrewdies Restarted

[kct2020]

Overview is starting again for shrewdies.com. Especially by merging stuff that was in my personal blog.

• Decide purpose & title:

  • Learning For Shrewdies Not For Dummies is a good intro article - bit of history. Going forward, emphasis is on tools to support self-help and tools to support managing professional consultants*
  • Start with working title of Shrewd Learning.

• Add license similar to https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-docs (i.e. content & code). Except, I will use CC BY-SA 4.0 for content.

• Remove shrewdies.com from keith-taylor.pages.dev.

• Create new shrewdies.com/keith-taylor/ for my authoring profile.

• Change keith-taylor.pages.dev pages to shrewdies.com (change in site settings to make shrewdies.com canonical for this repo). Then...

  • https://keith-taylor.pages.dev/keith-taylor-terms-and-conditions/ to /keith-taylor/t-and-c
  • https://keith-taylor.pages.dev/help-keith-taylor to /keith-taylor/help
  • Any others from Foodary.com

• After 'admin' pages, focus on new content for Progress Notes and Project Maps.

• Clientship: Law, Mark. "Managing consultants." Business Strategy Review 20, no. 1 (2009): 62-66.

  So what is best practice for excellence in the client governance of consulting studies? The art of clientship and client governance is a complex, underdeveloped and under-researched subject. Of course, clients ought to know how to:

Design great value-added consulting studies

Find the most qualified professionals available to tackle these studies

Brief consultants properly and conduct “beauty parades” where external tendering is required

Ensure that they and their colleagues support consultants as they tackle the engagement

Fully implement and sustain sensible recommendations

The evidence strongly indicates otherwise. Apart from Toyota, which appears to be very good at this sort of thing, few organizations can do this consistently.

But it's not just organizations that need to manage consultants - individuals need to.

[KeithCharlieTaylor]

License used: 3-Clause BSD License for content

[kct2020]

I transferred this from a new repo based on https://github.com/planetoftheweb/seven. But that had too many problems to fix for implementation. So I'm switching my pages.dev idea to shrewdies.com.

11ta has problems, but this seems to be a quicker fix than starting from scratch (bearing in mind that GoutPal and Foodary are my main priorities for 2022).

[kct2020]

Finally, I've created a plan for gradually restarting Shrewdies (Project Map). But the plan differs from the above. So this issue needs to be replaced. In the meantime, I have changed the pages.dev deployment to Shrewdies.net and will continue to develop that as the "Home of Keith's Learners". Effectively, a personal blog that is focused on developing my learning plans. Including my history as an instructeer.

I will continue to evolve Shrewdies.com as a center for Shrewd Learning. That is, effectively, any instructions that don't fit into GoutPal or Foodary. Thus supporting opportunities for instructors and other instructeers to collaborate on a wide range of subjects.

My next task is to blog a re-introduction to Keith's Learners. So see Progress Notes for latest info.