This post has been updated to include COVID pandemic perspectives. Eliminating Your Company's Fear of Change It's time to argue with bloggers over at Harvard Business Review again. In Cure Your Company's Allergy to Change, Brad Power discusses how to break the cycle in the failure of change programs. Let me just focus on the list at the end of his post, which starts … [Read more...] about Eliminating Your Company’s Fear of Change
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New Fast Company Blog Post: Redefining Diversity For The New Global Workforce
Our views of diversity in America are changing, but they aren’t keeping up with the global reality that now faces American companies. Traditionally, diversity-focused on the integration of people from racial, gender, physical ability, and religious perspectives inside of large corporations motivated by political or operational imperative, or social good. The idea was to … [Read more...] about New Fast Company Blog Post: Redefining Diversity For The New Global Workforce
3 Reasons CIOs Need Scenario Planning
3 Reasons CIOs Need Scenario Planning Scenario planning is the art and practice of imagining multiple futures to create a strategic context for planning and decision-making. Pioneered by Royal Dutch Shell in the ’60s and ’70s, the technique is now widely used by businesses and governments as an important element of strategic planning. Functional departments increasingly … [Read more...] about 3 Reasons CIOs Need Scenario Planning
Must Listen: Reinventing Discovery: The New Era Of Networked Science
A must-listen interview from Seattle's KUOW THE CONVERSATION. Reinventing Discovery delivers a highly recommended new way to see science. It hints about how the Serendipity Economy is becoming reality for scientists. Michael Nielsen is the author of "Reinventing Discovery: the Era of Networked Science." http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=25124 … [Read more...] about Must Listen: Reinventing Discovery: The New Era Of Networked Science
Shakespeare in Theory – and Why Computer’s Aren’t As Interesting As They Used to Be
or Shakespeare isn't Anonymous In light of the fun, interesting, and I think, utterly fictional Anonymous, I thought I would repost this item from my now defunct Future of Information Work blog. Be challenged, but enjoy. 4/7/2008 2:45:59 PM Shakespeare Wars I have finally finished Rosenbaum's Shakespeare Wars. I love Shakespeare, but why include comments on … [Read more...] about Shakespeare in Theory – and Why Computer’s Aren’t As Interesting As They Used to Be