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• Transparency:: “the only lasting competitive advantage is extreme trust”

  
  A heid full of mince but at least it's my mince! — Authority: 112
  as technology generates more and more transparency ....you can expect consumers to hold businesses to higher and higher standards. And the only reliable competitive advantage that any business is likely to have, in the totally transparent future, is the extreme trust of its customers.
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• Nearly Three-Quarters of Businesses Admit Mobile Devices Have Increased Security Incidents

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 147
  By: Ian Mansfield | 18th Jan 2012 ?The number of personal mobile devices connecting to the corporate network has more than doubled in the past two years — with nearly half of devices storing sensitive data, according to a report commissioned by Check Point Software Technologies. The report shows 71 percent of ...
  4 days ago

• Blowup

  
  Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage — Authority: 104
    Not a good couple of days in the history of the American space program. Yet of all technological failures in history, perhaps none focused the lens on the dynamics of failure that the Challenger tragedy. Malcolm Gladwell explored the incident and equally profound aftermath in his essay ‘ Blowup’ ...
  4 days ago

• Efficiency, effectiveness and co-creativity

  
  Tom Graves — Authority: 103
  This one is a pick-up from a Tweet by Bert van Lamoen : transarchitect : The priority shift we make is from efficiency to effectiveness to co-creativity. #complexity Of course. Yes. That’s obvious, the moment I look at it. Except that I’d completely missed before now. Oops… I’ve long since drawn a ...
  6 days ago

• The challenge of living in a non-linear world [2]

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 402
  This is the second part of a general introduction to the book and project No Straight Lines: making sense of our non-linear world The opportunity and the design challenge Which brings me on to the title and the challenge of this project. Be realistic, imagine the impossible is taken from a poster from the ...
  1 week ago

• The Challenge of living in a non-linear world [1]

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 402
  This is an excerpt from the book No Straight Lines: making sense of our non-linear world What do these have in common? A car company built around a global community as an organisation, enabled by combining flex manufacturing techniques, open source platforms, open legal frameworks and social communication ...
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• Lost in Territories – Why Consulting Needs to Be Reinvented

  
  Sonnez en Cas d'Absence — Authority: 79
  Version française ici . Since the dawn of mankind, human beings have structured their social identity from their affiliation to one or more territories. This belonging, whether geographic, social or symbolic, has allowed the birth and growth of collective structures with tangible, concrete boundaries, which turned ...
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• Kodak:: NOT too big to fail…and not alone!

  
  A heid full of mince but at least it's my mince! — Authority: 112
  In the Digital Age, inter-connected “business systems” have transformed the business environment. At a pace that exposed the fragility of the institutional model: financial; political; religious; media.
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• Don’t Wait – Decide – Move On

  
  Leadership Development — Authority: 112
  There are 318, 979,564,000 ways to play the first four moves in chess according to  Yahoo Answers . Think that sounds confusing? How about life decisions? I’m not an expert in chess, I know the names of the pieces and what a chess board looks like. As complex as the first four moves may be, life is a lot more ...
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• Identifier, identity, persona and Mask

  
  Tom Graves — Authority: 103
  Who or what is ‘I’? How do others recognise that ‘I’? How does that ‘I’ express itself? – with what voice does that ‘I’ speak? And how do others recognise that voice? Yeah, I know, sounds like philosophy and stuff – woefully abstract, deep and pointless. Yawn. But those ‘pointless’ questions ...
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• Modelling, not shaping

  
  Harold Jarche — Authority: 480
  Tweet In social networks we can learn from each other; modelling behaviours, telling stories, and sharing what we know. This may not be highly efficient, but it it can be very effective. You will know you’re in a real community of practice if it changes your practices. Education and training are shaping ...
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• Innovative company recognized

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 147
  When Don McKillop lost his job 20 years ago, little did he know that his networking contacts would eventually make him a national star in the manufacturing industry. As the 2011 year winds down, McKillop and the company he founded — CAMcad Technologies inc. — have been recognized, yet again, for their innovative ...
  2 weeks ago

• Science, systems thinking, and advances in theories, methods and practices

  
  Coevolving Innovations — Authority: 85
  Commenting on the  Overview of Systems Science  (draft version 0.5) for the  Guide to the Systems Engineering Book of Knowledge  is problematic. Applying systems thinking on systems thinking constitutes a mess of ideas that is difficult to tease apart. Breaking the idea of “systems science” in its parts of (i) ...
  2 weeks ago

• Customer service – You’ve been Zappos’d

  
  Adventures in systems land — Authority: 92
  When I first ordered from Zappos.com and they screwed up with the packaging, craming a $200+ dollar jacket in a shoe box, so much so I had to have it professionally steamed to get the creases out, I was prepared to forgive them. After another order they put me on their VIP list, free shipping both ways[read shipping ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6 challenges for organisations in a non-linear world

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 79
  We have arrived at the edge of the adaptive range of our industrial world. At the edge, because that world, our world is being overwhelmed by a trilemma of social, organisational and economic complexity. We are in transit from a linear world to a non-linear one. Non-linear because it is for all of us socially, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Indispensable Considerations On The Various Shapes And Forms Of Injury Claims

  
  4myp - Custom Promotional Calendars — Authority: 139
  When you have been in this particular industry for such a long time, you see an amazing assortment of situations arise and there seems to be no limit to the complexity of cases, or circumstances that may develop leading to injury claims in the first place. We could say that humans are especially susceptible to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Multicellular Life Evolves in Laboratory

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 724
  An evolutionary transition that took several billion years to occur in nature has happened in a laboratory, and it needed just 60 days. Under artificial pressure to become larger, single-celled yeast became multicellular creatures. That crucial step is responsible for life’s progression beyond algae and bacteria, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Some Links

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 650
  The always-enlightening Max Borders offers his thoughts on the origins of envy . Here’s Ross Kaminsky on creative destruction . Bryan Caplan optimistically reads Charles Murray’s latest book . Most people – mercantilism seemingly being the default “theory” guiding the notions of economically untutored ...
  2 weeks ago

• Competing with time – A concept well worth re-exploring

  
  The 21st Century Supply Chain — Authority: 103
  Every now and then a concept comes along that resonates very strongly with what I perceive to be key issues in operations in general, and supply chain in particular.  One of these is the seminal work by George Stalk of Boston Consulting Group titled Time—The Next Source of Competitive Advantage published in ...
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• The Principals Of Visual Database Development

  
  College Debt Tips and Advice — Authority: 133
  A database is a collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system via database monitoring systems. Whether you are in need of a data mining application but never designed a database before, or simply want to save time on designing and managing a new database, your choices of database development tools ...
  2 weeks ago

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