Category: collaboration
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. Continue reading
The world is changing and needs Social Business Architects. Gone is the epoch of the passive consumer, now customers want a say. At the same time, the quest for survival and growth is causing companies to stop looking at suppliers as someone to squeeze on price and instead as partners in innovation. And, employers are realizing that to maximize their success they need to attract and engage the best talent not just into internal talent pools, but external ones as well. Continue reading
It seems that poor economic conditions provide an ample excuse for leaders to abandon collaboration and innovation for the sake of managing (and saving) the “bottom line.” This reaction could cause one to believe that innovative leaders are a novelty of times past. Sure, we all appreciate the accomplishments of innovative leaders within Apple, Google, and the like – but in “these difficult times”, can we afford to desire innovation over “practical business management”? Continue reading
Cooperative innovation is transforming project management, evolving from “all-in-one” integrated projects to collaborative design, building innovative components on top of which various applications can be designed. Continue reading
We think about networking as a very modern notion, with our accumulation of virtual “friends,” “followers” and people-who-might-be-useful-to-us-someday. To me, it is just an extension of what my people, my family have been doing since 70 AD – making critical connections that enable both our survival. The tools may have changed, but our reliance on the network has not. In fact, without the network, I literally wouldn’t be alive. Continue reading
In this paper we outline a strategy to make your entire organization more innovative. Kipling’s serving men are at the core of our strategy. We visualize them; we respect them as experts in their respective fields – “They taught me all I knew” – and we put them to work to improve existing processes and to innovate new ones. Continue reading
