From The Future of Work - April 2006 Last week I had a discussion about information with Dr. Carsten Sorensen of the London School of Economics. We ended up talking around an idea I floated several years ago as an analyst at the Giga Information Group (acquired by Forrester Research): namely this: as yet, the computer industry has failed to come up with a theory of work … [Read more...] about What Computers Still Need to Learn: Theories of Information and Being Bought to be Brought the Right Information
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Enterprises Not One Dimensional – Technology Not the Only Influence on the Future Enterprise
From the Future of Work blog, January 2008 Stop with Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, etc. I've said it before and I will say it again and again. Analysts at Gartner, Forrester, Ovum, etc. continue to beat the drum of change with only technology in mind. If that was the case, Enterprise 2.0 happened when the computer first showed up in big overly cooled rooms, and 3.0 occurred when … [Read more...] about Enterprises Not One Dimensional – Technology Not the Only Influence on the Future Enterprise
Adaptation and Handedness
First entry from my Future of Work blog migration to this blog. From the Future of Work: December 2007 Observers of the future ask people to adapt all the time. To face the subtlety of change, to suck it up and just find a way to fit into a new rhythm. Having just experienced a broken arm, I understand that change is not swift, and not at all about learning: change is about … [Read more...] about Adaptation and Handedness
Collaboration Driven Content–Who Owns the Future of Collaboration?
People using collaboration tools have found that working on shared documents often struggle, as they charge small portions of a document to meet their obligations, but perform those edits on an entire document. This situation is exacerbated even more when working on legal documents, when some parties should not see portions of a document at all. Over time, documents will … [Read more...] about Collaboration Driven Content–Who Owns the Future of Collaboration?
Augmenting Strategic Planning for Dummies
Overall, I like Erica Olsen’s Strategic Planning for Dummies, but I am not a fan of the scenario planning overview, which comes rather late in the book. Here are some thoughts for readers that they should consider when using Olsen’s text. Strategic Planning for Dummies covers scenario planning in a very cursory way on pages 291-294. It provides a high-level overview, which … [Read more...] about Augmenting Strategic Planning for Dummies
