Here’s a 7 minute clip on complexity in organizations (from a presentation by Holger Nauheimer at the International Association of Facilitators conference, Atlanta, GA, April 12, 2008): An introduction into why complexity matters for 21st century organizations; some aspects of how we can deal with issues of complexity in organizational change: The embedded slides can’t […]
HBR IdeaCast number 80 sounds interesting again: “Where Does Strategic Innovation Come From?” with guest George Stalk of BCG, and now author of 5 Future Strategies You Need Right Now, a new book in the Harvard Business Press Memo to the CEO series. I wonder if a small booklet can make that much a difference, […]
Tonight I participated in a book presentation by Rod A. Beckström on The Starfish and the Spider (side event at the Web 2.0 Expo Berlin). He started off with his motivation for writing this book, 9/11. Yes, Al-Quaida is an archetypical network, and mapping this decentralized network is quite a task. Social Network Analysis shows […]
Via Anecdote: The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next This doesn’t hold for a sunny sunday morning in September of course 😉
Noch nicht gehört, aber sieht interessant aus: Leithammel und Alphatiere – Wie animalisch ist die Welt der Wirtschaft? Ein Sendung von SWR 2 Forum, Moderation durch Eggert Blum mit Prof. Dr. Michael Hutter – Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Universität Witten-Herdecke, Harald Schumann – Journalist und Buchautor, Berlin, Dr.-Ing. Rainer Dulger – geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der ProMinent Dosiertechnik GmbH, Heidelberg, […]
This is interesting business model innovation case material: New York Magazine has an ambitious piece that looks at 21 different organizations, and the ways they make money: The inner workings and profit mechanisms of diverse outfits (from drug dealing to the city government …) are explored in The Profit Calculator. Doing so it also looks […]
Harald Staun rezensiert David Weinbergers “Everything is Miscellaneous … The Power of the Digital Disorder” in der F.A.Z. (“Die Vermessung des Web“): […] Weinbergers Thesen, die im Prinzip nur zusammenfassen, welche tektonischen Verschiebungen auf der Landkarte des Wissen derzeit zu beobachten sind, sind dabei gar nicht so wahnsinnig originell, die Art aber, wie er die […]
