Archive for the 'Culture' Category

I’m speaking at Office2.0 on mindmapping and culture of Enterprise 2.0

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

I’ve accepted an invite to speak on two panels (Thurs-Fri) at Office 2.0 in San Francisco, California this week:

Cultural and Technology in Enterprise 2.0 rollouts (hosted by Jevon MacDonald).

This will explore the cultural nuances related to designing, developing and deploying Social Software in the Enterprise. Being a wiki kind of guy I’ll bring some perspectives […]

Blogging for a job in a transparent, mass-socialized world

Monday, December 18th, 2006

In My Blog Got Me a New Job ex-Ernst & Young Rod Boothby explains how his blog enhances the chances of landing a new job, and how he attributes his job offer to having lowered the risk to potential employers by being seen to be more transparent and open. In this posting I extend this […]

KM 2.0 based on Social Media fuels Complexity. Managing complexity necessitates new culture and new leadership competences

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

In Tech Boom 2.0: Boom but no bubble?, I highlighted the collaboration centricity of new investments:

A new emphasis on social networking and connecting people, rather than e-commerce, which consumers did not trust in 2000.

Given the dismal failure of so many KM implementations - which were often poorly thought-out and brittle databases - a shift to […]

46% of online Asia has a blog, 8% of US do, what % of Canada?

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Ian Delany in http://twopointouch.com/2006/12/07/blogging-asia/ offers this insight into the huge variation between adoption of blogging in Asia vs. the Western World:
Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report shows that blogging is already a significant force in Asia. [I] haven’t been able to find the original report online, but I’ve been able to piece together the following […]

Roger Martin: “Ontario could not go out of its way to devise a more business unfriendly, non-competitive taxation system”

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

http://www.gagglescape.com/index.php/site/comments/528/ :
According to [Roger] Martin, [Dean of the Rotman School of Management] - and he pulled no punches - Ontario could not go out of its way to devise a more business unfriendly, non-competitive taxation system. “Taxing businesses at high rates is just counterproductive,” says Martin.
The article also covers key steps Ontario’s policy makers can […]

Canada: too cosy by half.

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

In one time goodwill gesture, Ryan comments on Canada’s extortionate anti-competitive corporate culture.
So, when I call to say “Hey you guys missed something” I don’t expect to be informed that YOU’RE doing ME a favour by fixing your own mistake.
I’m from the UK, and “let me tell you”, (in a stern voice), few Canadian […]

Workflow powers process. Process powers efficiency. Wikis need workflow.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

I took 30 mins out this afternoon to write 2 upcoming (and one, ahem, late) greetings cards to my family in the UK. (Tidbit: Sending cards is a custom in the UK far more common custom than here in Canada)
Anyhow. So I did the selections, payments etc, for the first two. I was using remind4u.com […]