Archive for May, 2010

Motivation with carrots and sticks …

… doesn’t work when dealing with creative, hard to pre-plan types of work. Knowledge work, yes. Much better to equip people with autonomy, mastery and a sense of purpose. And that’s putting up some interesting questions with regard to leadership styles (command and control is doomed …), the organization and improving of collaborative work (facilitating [...]

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Visualization for business impact

The last two days I was in Rome for the IBM IOD2010 EMEA conference – mainly because I’ve got a bit of an interest in enterprise software, smarter work, innovation management, business model innovation and design, improving organizational processes, and the smartening up of the daily worklifes of us all. You can call it “interested [...]

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Insert coin, please

Oh yes, they know how we click and tick …

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Development of Design Sensibilities

via ideo.com [...] design thinking entails much more than applying methods: to create value, methods must be applied together with design sensibilities. Posted via web from stirring the frogpond

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Management Innovation eXchange

What is the MIX? An open innovation project… The Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) is an open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. The premise: while “modern” management is one of humankind’s most important inventions, it is now a mature technology that must be reinvented for a new age. The spur for [...]

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Die Lebensweisheiten des Dieter Rams

Funktion beinhaltet Funktionen, die über die reine Funktion hinausgehen. via createordie.de mehr Inspiration nach dem Klick … Posted via web from stirring the frogpond

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Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options

via nytimes.com FB out on probation with me, yes Posted via web from stirring the frogpond

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