More on Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger at IT Conversations (mp3): In Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. In his rollicking tour of the rise of the miscellaneous, he examines a number of topics to illustrate this change. He [...]
Apropos Prometeus, via Teletaucher, Tipps für einen fröhlichen Fernsehabend: Das 3sat-Magazin “kulturzeit” fragt heute nach der Zukunft der Mediengesellschaft, wenn es einen Journalismus ohne Journalisten geben sollte. Im Arte-Themenabend “Wir werden alle überwacht!” geht es auch nicht viel fröhlicher zu.
Well, for the record, BusinessWeek columnists Jack and Suzy Welch (neutron jack, you know …, this time with a bad cold) start off explaining the rationale of the fight against organizational layers, and they go on talking about organizational pathologies and communication problems. Yet and although I’m all for flat hierarchies I don’t follow Welch’s [...]
Via centrestage: Prometeus – The Media Revolution Ob dieser Prometheus eine gute Rolle spielen wird oder eher ein “big brother” wird? Wir werden sehen …
Managers might not want competition in their industry to become more Schumpeterian, but they don’t have a choice. In “Dog Eat Dog” by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, where they hold that industries that buy a lot of technology are becoming as cutthroat as those that produce technology …
Putting People First has put together a compilation of videos from IIT’s Institute of Design Strategy conference in Chicago … [...] addressing how businesses can use design to explore emerging opportunities, solve complex problems, and achieve lasting strategic advantage [...] design, with its ability to understand users, redefine problems and create systemic, human-centered solutions, can [...]
Note to myself (and some of you, my dear readers), Harvard Business Review magazine has introduced a new format for the regular HBR case study: It’s now a a “HBR Interactive case study” where anyone can download the case study as pdf and enter his solution directly into the form at the end. I like [...]
