Putting people first has more information on 18o°Academy, so add this to my short entry. BTW, nice to see, that Richard Pascale, author of “Surfing the Edge of Chaos”, and who always highlighted the importance of emergence in organisations, is teaching change management – or as they put it: Transformation Management.
Florian Rötzer in der Telepolis mit einem Artikel zur Nutzung von Wikis und Blogs im Wissensmanagement. Interessant und bemerkenswert ist die Firma, die hier die Vorteile von Social Software nutzen möchte: CIA. Wikis sollen insbesondere beim Sammeln und Verarbeiten von Informationen eingesetzt werden, mehr dazu u.a. in diesem Paper von Calvin Andrus vom ‘Center for […]
Notice that Knowledge@Wharton has a special report (.pdf) on innovating whilst fighting against complexity: As companies struggle to innovate in today’s competitive environment, they need to continually guard against adding to their “clutter” — the creeping impact of complexity on efficiency and cost-competitiveness.
Almost a case study by itself: Chaos by design Nicely mashes complexity thinking, innovation management and more … with a poster-child of succesful (business model) innovation.
I’ve only gotten around this excellent post by Peter Rip of Leapfrog Ventures … on the cacophony of business model definitions and mental models … leading him to sketch his version of business model definition/architecture/configuration/help-and-cheat-sheet/… that I’ve included below … copyright due to Peter Rip of course. What striked me first place was this little […]
both hilarious and true …
I had to think of this smart little quote of C.K.Prahalad when reading this article on the emerging business of WiMax connectivity: Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations. (Spectrum) resources are always limited for upstarts, partly due to incumbents hoarding them (and because of government reserved space like in this case […]
