An article in the Telegraph, reporting from an encounter and interview with Russell Ackoff, grand-father of systems thinking. Some gems include: The idea that you can improve a business by focusing on just part of it is plain wrong, Ackoff says. In fact, it’s more serious than that: attempted “improvements” can actually make everything else […]
Via Businesspundit I’ve learned of this research finding: “Rotten to the core: How workplace ‘bad apples’ spoil barrels of good employees” by William Felps and Terence Mitchell (professor of management and organization in the Business School and UW psychology) of the University of Washington. Yes, no surprise here, Bob Sutton’s also arguing that a******s can […]
Well, in fact, BusinessWeek has a whole collection of articles on the Virtual Workplace, as part of the CEO Guide to Technology. Besides the Virtual Workplace Podcast, that I’ve already pointed out this “Towns Chasing Workers, Not Just Jobs”-article is interesting, it holds that knowledge workers will always find ways to get work from other […]
Der SWR2 mit einem interessanten Beitrag in der Reihe Welt am Draht – Digitale Lernwelten, hier das mp3. Bildungseinrichtungen wie Schulen und Universitäten entdecken zunehmend die neuen Möglichkeiten und bieten ihre Lehrveranstaltungen per Internet oder zumindest mit Internet-Unterstützung an. Aber auch kommerzielle Anbieter wie der Computerhersteller Apple entwickeln zunehmend Strategien dafür, wie der lukrative Bildungsmarkt […]
Via Soulsoup: “Everything you wanted to know about Producing Open Source Software, from economic-political-business context to copyright issues via successful strategies to implement a good project plan and links to tons of free resources, you can get it all here”: Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel: Producing Open Source Software is a book about […]
Gero von Randow mit einem informierten Artikel zu Web 2.0, Social Media, Partizipation und mehr … nett, um Zweifler und Zyniker mit Zitaten zu zermürben … Das Web 2.0 ist ein Medium der Beteiligung. Eltern beobachten, dass ihre Sprösslinge viel Zeit damit verbringen, und sorgen sich, ihnen entglitte das »reale Leben«. Eine Befürchtung, die freilich […]
Following up the last post, have a look at this short interview with Mark HJohnson of Innosight:Innovation Q&A. On the role of knowledge management, related systems and the importance of knowledge brokering and gardening in the innovation process: Q: Is there a formal process for tapping into the knowledge of your workforce? Mark Johnson: We […]
