(cross posted at FastForward)
Dave Snowden, formerly of IBM, now on his own at Cognitive Edge has been thinking about the relationship between organizations, knowledge, and technology for a long time. In one of several recent posts, “If the world is flat, seek out the bumpy bits ,” he reflects on the challenges of meshing the [...]
This has been lurking in my RSS aggregator for the last couple of months, patiently waiting for me to get around to reading it (one of the core benefits of using RSS feeds). David Gurteen provides a nice starting point for discussion around attributes of effective knowledge workers.
While I would certainly want people with [...]
Case examples of organizations employing information technology in strategic ways that are relevant to Enterprise 2.0 can be difficult to find. I know of an example from the late 1990s that nonetheless offers relevant lessons for today.
Black and Veatch is an engineering management and design firm that builds large-scale projects such as power plants. I first [...]
If the set of technologies loosely identified at Enterprise 2.0 are to have any hope of real success, we need to take a closer look at how they are introduced into organizations. I see two basic patterns for technology introduction in general use and neither holds much promise.
The first pattern is embodied in the [...]
I recently pointed to Bob Sutton’s new blog as a good source of insight into the world of effective organizations. One of his recent posts, Crappy People versus Crappy Systems, offers an excellent case in point. The entire post is well worth your time, but here is the essence:
The worst part about focusing on keeping out crappy [...]
In one of my columns at Enterprise Systems Journal, I started to explore a nagging concern about why organizations have realized less of the potential of technology to support knowledge work than they could. In a nutshell, my hypothesis is that most organizations have not thought through what organizational roles need to be created to [...]
A reminder from Tom Peters to reread (I think, although I apparently didn’t blog it the first time round) Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Change. Worth reading again. Probably worth printing out and stapling to your forehead.
Beyond Thinking Different to Doing Different.
30 Dec 2005 from Brand Autopsy | Read the full story»
Originally posted on December [...]
I’ve been heads down the last month on a client project with a tight deadline and budget. I’m now catching up with a variety of things that have queued up in the meantime. For example. I have several columns that have run at the Enterprise Systems Journal that I haven’t yet posted about here. In [...]
Bill Ives finds a nice report on the use of new technology within the intelligence community. You will need to register with the Social Science Research Network (for free) in order to download the report, which is a PDF file, but it’s worth the trouble
The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a [...]
Some interesting point-counterpoint on the relative merits of
organizational scale, but I can’t help but smile at the notion the 80+
employees constitutes “big.” To me the more interesting question here
is how low we’ve been able to drive the scale of micro-businesses such
as 37Signals who are able to have impact and presence far beyond their
size because they [...]
