Vested interests, protectionism, conservatism are the enemies of diversity, innovation and change. This idea has been at the heart of liberalism since John Stuart Mill wrote On Liberty. He used the example of China, a ...
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Meta-ROI and social media engagement for brands
I want to believe. Granted, I'm finding it less of a credulity-stretching exercise than taking UFO-ologists seriously, Charlene Li's post for the Altimeter Group about their study of ...
Thick value and re-engineering the marketing value-chain for networks
Thick value is a concept Umair has ben talking about for a while. The idea is that businesses look to create value rather than extract as much as they can get.Thick value's a ...
Twenty Commandments
Curtis points to some TED commandments, that sounds like not only good rules for conferences, but a lot more in life besides... The guy who posted them recounts: After you’re asked to be a speaker at the TED conference, a number of ...
Communities of purpose
I like David Cushman's take on the way that the web disrupts everything it touches. My main focus has been in thinking about the shift from channels to networks in media. Reading David reminds me that it is everything that looks like a ...
“Command and control is dead”: the shape of next gen organisations is social networks
Image: John Chambers, CEO of Cisco: "command and control is dead". A lot of the questions I have had floating around my head for the past few years are beginning to be answered by innovative companies. Questions about how you manage companies, organisations, in the age ...
Comrade Excel and the Glorious Five Year Plan
Spreadsheets aren't strategy, as Umair Haque is fond of saying. Turns out they can actually be quite dangerous, for the temptation they bring ...
Strategy and innovation: Head for the edge
Business thinkers John Seely Brown and John Hagel are always worth listening to. Their perspectives on innovation and ...
Tag Archive: business
Bureaucracies defend themselves to death.
Vested interests, protectionism, conservatism are the enemies of diversity, innovation and change. This idea has been at the heart of liberalism since John Stuart Mill wrote On Liberty. He used the example of China, a ...
Meta-ROI and social media engagement for brands
I want to believe. Granted, I'm finding it less of a credulity-stretching exercise than taking UFO-ologists seriously, Charlene Li's post for the Altimeter Group about their study of ...
Thick value and re-engineering the marketing value-chain for networks
Thick value is a concept Umair has ben talking about for a while. The idea is that businesses look to create value rather than extract as much as they can get.Thick value's a ...
Twenty Commandments
Curtis points to some TED commandments, that sounds like not only good rules for conferences, but a lot more in life besides... The guy who posted them recounts: After you’re asked to be a speaker at the TED conference, a number of ...
Communities of purpose
I like David Cushman's take on the way that the web disrupts everything it touches. My main focus has been in thinking about the shift from channels to networks in media. Reading David reminds me that it is everything that looks like a ...
“Command and control is dead”: the shape of next gen organisations is social networks
Image: John Chambers, CEO of Cisco: "command and control is dead". A lot of the questions I have had floating around my head for the past few years are beginning to be answered by innovative companies. Questions about how you manage companies, organisations, in the age ...
Comrade Excel and the Glorious Five Year Plan
Spreadsheets aren't strategy, as Umair Haque is fond of saying. Turns out they can actually be quite dangerous, for the temptation they bring ...
Strategy and innovation: Head for the edge
Business thinkers John Seely Brown and John Hagel are always worth listening to. Their perspectives on innovation and ...