I mentioned in an earlier blog post that I joined Livio Hughes and Linda Orton at a workshop we gave to a number of New York based organizations. Most of the participants represented large law firms, so the conversation focused on topics related to the legal industry. My presentation addressed some basic issues to helpe frame the [...]
Let me share and comment on an excerpt from the just published Harvard Business Review article: Ten Fatal Flaws That Derail Leaders. Authors Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman examined the performance reviews of business leaders who were either fired or considered ineffective. They found many common characteristics, including these: Lack of energy and enthusiasm. They “suck all [...]
Attending much of the Front End Innovation 2009 conference this week left me with some mixed feelings about the state of the Innovation marketplace. I’ll share my thoughts in two blog posts. First, the lens through which I observe this market: I was introduced to Idea Management and Innovation processes when I worked at the Center [...]
A rant on a growing problem: The social computing community is creating innovative technologies and marketplaces faster than organizations can consume them. And this creates an effect that I call the “long neck”. Whereas the “long tail” provides the market with access to low demand items via the Internet — and is a beneficial result [...]
Let me define what I mean and then ask you to comment and discuss – since I think this is an important question, one that is inspired by a conversation I had on Twitter that involved Hutch Carpenter and Mike Gotta. It was Mike who made the great point about “Department 2.0″, so I’d like [...]
Last week I had the pleasure to visit EMC and check out their internal EMC One Enterprise 2.0 communities. I wrote about it here. I just wanted to follow up with a little more information. Over the weekend I met with a few friends who work at EMC and asked them about EMC One. I’ll [...]