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 […]
An interesting article that highlights some reasons why huge institutions, like e.g. GM, have such a hard time changing: They are attached to their (cemented) organizational structures as they are facing a changing world. Why is it so hard for those inside GM to see the inevitable? Take a step into the Detroit mindset. No […]
Reuters about XBRL, the business reporting language that was supposed to make it easier for computerized systems to run through financial filings and spot questionable data. The technology, a computer language developed by accountants, turns financial information into the equivalent of a bar code, allowing software to scan and comprehend information that would otherwise be […]
Many of the critical questions media companies face today deal with human capital, knowledge management, digital assets and expertise. Media companies are supposed to be sophisticated managers of these assets because these are the main if not only assets these firms possess. Hence, they are pure-form exemplars and the lessons drawn from their experience for […]
Article discussing blogs in a corporate environment, altogether positive and thoughtful, noting for one that … likely to happen is that the underlying technology of blogging– the software, the syndication– will become tools in corporate arsenals, but “blogs” as a specific literary phenomenon will be rare in the corporate world. of course, because … for […]
Interesting article (and quote) by James Surowiecki on how organizational cultures can come in the way of innovation … leading to misery … Remember the misled attempt of Sony to establish its very own format for compressed music … ignoring the established standard mp3 … at least they have stopped this folly … but apparently […]
Forrester Research is warning IT departments of Greasemonkey … oh boy, granted, Javascript extensions can be harmful … but the cat is out of the bag already, as eager (may I say power) users have downloaded FF and the most clever ones have also detected Greasemonkey and its benefits … [they started] using it to […]
