This is the reason why my two ventures, frogpond and BMID, exist: Via this post from Headshift I followed up these referenced videos of the latest NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) event: Collaborate to Innovate: the rise of social networks. […] creativity as a function of a situation and not of […]
Azeem Azhar: Web 2.0 isn’t about the Internet, right on Web 2.0 is really about disaggregation, unbundling and rebundling of resources. […] means a bunch of changes for traditional firms. In particular: as a firm you need to move from a mode of control to a mode of co-ordination
Spannender Artikel in der New York Times, nicht nur wegen der Einblicke in die Nutzung von Social Software für “Competitive Intelligence” und Wissensmanagement. Interessant ist auch das: The Spying 2.0 vision has thus created a curious culture battle in intelligence circles. Many of the officials at the very top, […] are intrigued by the potential […]
Florian Rötzer in der Telepolis mit einem Artikel zur Nutzung von Wikis und Blogs im Wissensmanagement. Interessant und bemerkenswert ist die Firma, die hier die Vorteile von Social Software nutzen möchte: CIA. Wikis sollen insbesondere beim Sammeln und Verarbeiten von Informationen eingesetzt werden, mehr dazu u.a. in diesem Paper von Calvin Andrus vom ‘Center for […]
Oh well, this is so right on point … Stephen Baker in BusinessWeek on the miseries of jargon (add this to the big list where nih-syndrome, group think, and a bunch of other organizational pathologies reside). Notice also that innovation is hindered by jargon: Why so? Breakthroughs occur at the borders between discliplines and cultures. […]
Douglas Rushkoff in an interview giving details about his new book: [the book] is about how to innovate from the inside out rather than the outside in. It’s aimed at business people and anyone engaged in an enterprise. Too many of them tend to think they need to get “outside the box” in order to […]
BBC article … nothing great, the misc. gems are noted hereafter … it caught my attention because of its provoking headline … that was chosen for catchiness’ sake … luring the unsuspecting reader … It is unlikely that future technological inventions are going to transform the world in the way that they done before now. […]
