Last week I attended a fascinating event in Manhattan called “The Trust Summit Breakfast”. It featured two pairs of authors who collaborated on two business books on the topic of Trust. Specifically: Charles H Green and David Maister, co-authors of The Trusted Advisor (with Rob Galford). And Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, co-authors of Trust Agents. Both are considered must-read books. I [...]
I read Dennis Howlett’s recent blog post “Enterprise 2.0: what a crock“. He’s right and wrong. Let me explain via a story that I read in Noah benShea‘s book Jacob the Baker, many years ago (Note: I like to keep this blog focused on business — but I read a lot and feel I have much to learn from everyone, so [...]
A couple of days ago I presented in a webinar with Knowledge Management Associates and NewsGator. KMA is a medium sized consulting company in the greater Boston area that consults with regional clients helping them with a variety of IT needs, including the IT support for SharePoint. NewsGator is a provider of Enterprise 2.0 software [...]
I have already shared a summary of my one-day TEDxBoston experience on this blog. If you are interested in tracking the TEDxBoston activities, you can become a Facebook fan, track their Twitter feed, or just visit their web page. I’m going to highlight the talk that Melissa Withers gave about the work she is doing at the Business Innovation Factory — BIF. [...]
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 [...]
I just spend this morning in Manhattan giving a workshop on Enterprise 2.0 and Workplace Video along with Livio Hughes of Headshift and Linda Orton of Intelligent Video Solutions. An upcoming post will be about the workshop itself. This post is just about my impressions of walking around downtown Manhattan and that it reminded me [...]
Part two of my thoughts on the Innovation Marketplace based on my visit to the Front End of Innovation Conference… Please read part one here. Despite the importance of innovation to most companies (and nations), the innovation market suffers maturity and clarity challenges. Innovation is not a new marketplace, but it has many rough edges. [...]