January 2011
9 posts
The Maker Generation in the Enterprise – confused... →
In this post JP Rangaswami brilliantly, I think, captures many of the essences of the institutional and inter-personal culture of creative knowledge work that is emerging - from empowering people with control over their own tools; to the relationship between strong shared values and free choice of work tasks (loosely coupled, strongly aligned!); to the true implications of cross-functional...
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Rounding up Predictions Season 2011
To celebrate the end of techy prediction season (and hopefully, the end of ‘post-Christmas back to work shock’!), here’s a list of some of the best articles and reports I’ve seen:
Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2011
IDC predictions for 2011: Welcome to the New Mainstream
Trends in the Living Network: Map of the Decade, ExaTrends of the Decade, and the...
“Our abilities are not set in genetic stone. They are soft and sculptable, far...”
– David Shenk, author of The Genius in All of Us, in an article for the BBC.
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Of herds and hosting...
About a month ago, Kevin Kelly wrote a short post called “Prepare for flash crowds” in which he talked about the herding behaviour of people online and the poor readiness of the spaces they herd to. I’ve been thinking about this for a while as well, ever since a couple of years ago Steven Fry turned into whatever the opposite of King Midas is, by inadvertently overloading...
Building Open Innovation Capabilities in Small... →
Whether or not it’s really feasible (or necessarily desirable) to encourage staff to engage with open innovation intermediaries, this post does highlight some critical competencies that are hard to engender, especially, I would say, in medium sized company’s where diktat is not an effective means of creating behaviours.
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Of slippers and innovation...
I’m not into slippers - never have been, never wanted to be. And I’ve always been pretty sure that if I did possess some slippers, I’d never wear them.
However, two things happened just before Christmas that inspired me to buy a pair: firstly it got really cold, especially in the attic office I use on my working from home days; and secondly I found myself in a shoe shop...
“Unlike modern readers, who follow the flow of a narrative from beginning to end,...”
– Historian Robert Darnton quoted in Steven B Johnson’s “Where Good Ideas Come From”, describing pretty much perfectly how I use evernote, delicious and tumblr ;-)