Posts Tagged ‘Complexity’

Co-production by gamers

Interesting article on the benefits of integrating customer-driven innovations in ones business model … note this: User-created content has two extraordinary benefits. No. 1 is that when somebody makes a piece of content, they are so much more emotionally attached to it. It doesn’t even matter if it’s good or bad. If they made it, […]

CFOs Avoiding System To Make It Easier To Spot Accounting Problems

Reuters about XBRL, the business reporting language that was supposed to make it easier for computerized systems to run through financial filings and spot questionable data. The technology, a computer language developed by accountants, turns financial information into the equivalent of a bar code, allowing software to scan and comprehend information that would otherwise be […]

Change is hard and failure looming

Many of the critical questions media companies face today deal with human capital, knowledge management, digital assets and expertise. Media companies are supposed to be sophisticated managers of these assets because these are the main if not only assets these firms possess. Hence, they are pure-form exemplars and the lessons drawn from their experience for […]

Aktionismus bringt nichts

erschienen im Hamburger Abendblatt … Der Psychologe Peter Pächnatz über den Umgang mit steigenden Anforderungen. Er fordert mehr Ruhe und Übersicht von Führungskräften. Interessant im Interview ist der Neologismus Dynaxität … für mich eine unnötige Wortschöpfung, Komplexität als Begriff umfasst in meiner Sicht auch den Aspekt Dynamik – oder anders ausgedrückt: statische Systeme sind nicht […]