Posts under ‘Driving forces’
LIFT08: Gen-Y and digital literacy/practice
This is my first post about the Lift Conference (LIFT08) in Geneva last week. It was really an amazing conference, maybe the best conference I have ever attended. Thanks to everyone who participated in the organization of it! At the first workshop day of LIFT08 I attended a workshop arranged by Dave Brown about how [...]
Volvo IT blocks sites mentioning “social software”
When I was at Volvo IT (my former employer until 2000) for a meeting today, it became sadly clear that Volvo IT have entered further down the path of radical ignorance. I’ve heard about their strange firewall filters before stopping people from visiting web pages containing the phrases “IP telephony”, “sex” and “”games”. Apparently the [...]
Consumers in a connected world
I have now and then been involved in discussions about changing consumer behavior during the years. When at Volvo we recognized that Internet provided a price transparency which threatened the margins. The story were that people first went to shopping for a car, but when they had decided which car they wanted they asked their [...]
Accelerating economic shift towards the BRICs?
Are things starting to go faster when it comes to the economic shift from the western economies towards the new BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) or is it just a temporary dip? Frances Cairncross, economist and journalist summarized the current situation concerning the BRICs real good when she for one program took over [...]
Gartner analyst connect Maslow and the metaverse
I have never been impressed by Gartner but I must admit they are changing. A couple of years ago I realized they started to use scenario planning as a tool for understanding and communicating the analysis. Then a couple of weeks ago I came across a decent discussion about Digital Natives. And now through Future [...]
Cascio on Shirky and drivers behind change
It is enough… It is time I to stop thinking deeper on how and what to write on this blog and start writing something. It is just a blog for Gods sake! OK, let’s go… I will start softly by commenting on Jamais Cascio’s post: An Insufficient Present where he argues that the future belongs [...]
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt’s blogging irritates media
The last couple of days have been very interesting from the perspective of the political power of blogging. Carl Bildt, the Swedish foreign minister since last October, have recently after some time of blog silence picked up blogging again. Now he blogs in Swedish and started to use the blog for telling people of his [...]
Michael Raynor falls in the gap
Update: This post is adjusted since I attributed some of the answers to Guy Kawasaki and not Michel Raynor who actually answered the questions. Today Art Hutchinson pointed me to Guy Kawasakis blog and the post on Michael Raynor’s book The Strategy Paradox called How to Change the World: Ten Questions With Michael Raynor. It [...]
Mind the gap
Since I promised to explain why I thought that hierarchies were broken and in a longer perspective being recreated in a new form, I will start to do it here. When I had a conversation about organizational consequences of new communications technology a friend of mine told a story about what happened in a large [...]
