Posts Categorized: Non classé

It’s always surprising to run across instances of professionals not having the basic courtesy to offer attribution to a term and a concept that have been around for 15 years or so, and that have been fairly rigorously examined and explained in a fair number of blog posts and articles, both on this blog and… Read more »

Nigel Paine, hospital ex-Head of Learning of the BBC and a respected authority on learning in the connected era, dosage offered me the privilege of being interviewed for his series called “From Scratch” on organizations and learning. https://audioboo.fm/boos/2286656-from-scratch-14-wirearchy

The title of this article is my combination of a term (post-normal) I learned from Stowe Boyd and a line from Leonard Cohen’s anthem “The Future” Fundamental innovation in business, education, culture-making and the arts  is aimed at catalyzing and supporting cultural transformation. As we face concurrent crises around the globe today, there is a… Read more »

Each of these models (or concepts) have their purpose and place, and to a significant degree which one will be most effective will depend upon how an organization wants to respond to the fundamental issues of flexibility, agility, responsiveness, execution and forward stability.  And it is also important to pay attention to and understand the… Read more »

I was recently asked to provide some thoughts to a yet-to-be published book about designing purposeful flows of information and interaction. Specifically, I was asked to provide thoughts and opinions about what kinds of impact may result from the increasing presence and volume of flows of information amongst interconnected people.   Based upon our individual… Read more »

“Social business is not dead. I’m learning that the most advanced organizations see social not as a technology movement but instead one of culture and philosophy But the challenge is that social media strategists may actually be hampering its potential by not helping executives see the bigger picture beyond the technology.” (Brian Solis) ***************************************************************************** Horizontal… Read more »

During an hiatus from blogging the notion of wirearchy continued to hang around and get noticed here and there.  Recently it seems that awareness has been spreading and growing.  I hope this continues.  Over the past decade a large number of people have asked, once interested in the neologism wirearchy, what it is and most… Read more »

The following seven sections of this essay are the summaries of the ‘chapters’ of an essay written in French (and abundantly annotated by schema and concept maps) by Michel Cartier. I have often said to many people that I believe he is the francophone world’s version of Marshall McLuhan.  I realize that many people think… Read more »

(Re-published from 2009) My storage space is a reasonably organized mess.  However, recently I decided to sort it out at a fundamental level for once and for all, or at least until the next time things accumulate to the point where it’s not orderly.  How anal of me.  Oh, well.  Most of the next two… Read more »

For the past several years we’ve heard lots about BarCamps, WordCamps, BookCamps, GovJams, Unconferences, Hackathons and various forms of collaborative spaces, etc. All of these represent forms of organization in which people come together and group around a purpose with the objective of carrying out some practical experiments. Typically today such groupings are invited, planned… Read more »