Here’s a pointer to an excellent interview with Alan Kay. As always, Alan shares some deep insights about technology innovation and the willingness to take on risk (he’s not confident in the ability of most organizations to tolerate risk no matter how small the level of funding involved). Anyone with an interest in the continuing [...]
Tagged Alan Kay, Innovation, Smalltalk8 Things We Hate About IT: How to Move Beyond the Frustrations to Form a New Partnership with IT, Cramm, Susan The tensions between business leaders and their IT counterparts remains an evergreen topic. Susan Cramm, a former CIO herself, weighs in on the topic in a way that’s revealing and productive in two ways. [...]
Tagged IT organizationCognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, Shirky, Clay Anyone who can use lolcats to make a relevant and provocative intellectual point is worth paying attention to. Clay Shirky pulls it off in his latest book. Here’s his point: Let’s nominate the process of making a lolcat as the stupidest possible creative act…. [...]
Tagged Knowledge work, Social mediaThe discussion about organizational culture in knowledge management and Enterprise 2.0 efforts is evolving in useful and pragmatic ways. The earliest discussions ignored culture entirely and implicitly assumed that technology would magically shape the organization as needed. The next round of discussion identified sharing as a desirable global cultural characteristic. If you were in a [...]
Tagged observable work, process, visibilityI took a brief break from writing some other material to view the following sent from my good friend Morry Fiddler. Worth a few minutes of your time going into a holiday weekend here in the U.S.
