It is a bit weird that it is much more easy to write things in the unstructured and undemanding link stream i e my Tumblr feed, than to write things here. I will try to change that…
For some time I have been thinking about the role of destruction in change processes. That lead me e [...]
Posts under ‘New organizing’
Why knowledge is destroyed with fall of civilizations
Don Tapscott on Internet and end of recession
Don Tapscott, is stating the paradigmatic effect of Internet on the whole society in this short and radical movie. He states that:
The web is creating a global infrastructure for collaboration (which leads to disruption and confusion)
As a result, all of our institutions have come to the end of their life-cycle
The current recession is a [...]
Mumbai attacks – the systems learning perspective
One major strength with humanity is that every time the current system is being threatened it is learning something. Some of us argue that we should be using our relatively recent develop pre-frontal cortex in order to foresee things, but at the same time we know that real collective learning emanate from real experiences which [...]
The organizational silo confirmed
In July this year HBS published a working paper by the name: Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization where the authors analyzed e-mails from 30.000 employees in a large company over a 3-month period. It is really interesting that this has been done, even if I wonder why it wasn’t done before (or [...]
How much does national political governance matter?
Many of you readers know that I am skeptical to to future of traditional hierarchies. I believe the huge change that is happening now (again) is that new communications technology is simply creating another playing field for the basic human capacity to organize and solve problems at hand. A field where the model of traditional [...]
The future of Internet – the next 5000 days
Kevin Kelly say something like this in the speech:
“The Internet’s development is really amazing, but strangely enough, we are not amazed?”
Do we really understand what is going on?
The last time I wrote about Kevin Kelly in this forum was when he had been writing an interesting article in Wired about the future of Internet [...]
The Big (Bad) Picture! How ready are we??
Today Jamais Cascio wrote a post about The Big Picture where he paints a picture of the 6 main drivers behind the major development of the next 20 years. I am really looking forward to following posts in the issue.
Climate Chaos
Resource Collapse
Catalytic Innovation
Ubiquitous Transparency
New Models of Development
The Rise of the Post-Hegemonic World
He starts his last [...]
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 [...]
