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Projects Are the New Job Interviews - Michael Schrage
Michael Schrage, a research fellow at MIT Sloan School’s Center for Digital Business, is the author of Serious Play and the forthcoming Getting Beyond Ideas .
Wayne Gretzky is by most accounts the greatest hockey player ever. His father gave him a piece of advice that has been almost immortalized in business circles over the past several years.
Your organization 8 years from now – Value Creator (BrianVellmure.com)
This is a very interesting post by + Maria Popova Thanks + John Hagel "...So if information discovery plays such a central role in how we fuel our creativity and thus in our creative output, then information discovery is a form of creative labor in and of itself.
Brian Vellmure - Google+ - How we choose to pay attention, and relate to information…
What kinds of developmental thresholds would any planet of sentient beings pass through? The creation of writing would be a huge one. The unleashing of cheap non-biological energy is another.
The Technium: The Next Transitions in the Technium
Every year IBM predicts the future of technology via the IBM 5 in 5 initiative–our forecast of five innovations that will help transform aspects of modern life, making the planet smarter, within the next five years. We assess not just the availability of a new technology but also the likelihood of its large-scale adoption.
The IBM 5 in 5: Our Forecast of Five Innovations That Will Alter the Tech Landscape Within Five Years « A Smarter Planet Blog
12 Themes for 2012: what we can expect in the year ahead | Trends in the Living Networks
Towards the end of each year I share some thoughts on what awaits in the year ahead.
There has been much speculation recently about the role Facebook Credits could play in becoming a global virtual currency, and even the possibility of Facebook becoming a bank.
The Bank of Facebook: Currency, Identity, Reputation « emergent by design
How governments research and communicate about the future | Trends in the Living Networks
Governments around the world are increasingly recognizing that they have a responsibility for structured thought and research about the future, both to shape their own initiatives, and to assist companies and institutions in the nation to survive and thrive in times of change.
These stand for six large-scale trends moving through and comprising this new media. I expanded the notions in this 25-minute talk I did recently for Wired, at their Nextwork gathering in NYC. You can watch the video here .
The Technium: Generatives
Humanity and technology continue to co-evolve at an ever increasing pace, leaving traditional institutions (and mindsets) calcified and out of date. A new paradigm is emerging, where everything is increasingly connected and the nature of collaboration, business and work are all being reshaped. In turn, our ideas about society, culture, geographic boundaries and governance are being forced to adapt to a new reality.
4 Trends Shaping the Emerging “Superfluid” Economy « emergent by design
In the first post of this series , we talked about listening for what people are saying about you, your brand, your market, your products and services, or market needs that your organization has an answer for.
Three New Required Roles for your company: (#2) Social Anthropologist « Brian Vellmure's CRM Strategies Blog
Welcome to the roaring teens. We’re in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis, many people argue, since the Great Depression. As mightily as governments, central banks, and scholars have labored, a jobless, fruitless, and suspiciously meaningless recovery has begun.
The Meaning Organization | design mind
Jun 7, 2011 TEANECK, N.J., June 7, 2011 / PRNewswire / -- Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH), a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing services, today announced it has entered into a three-year agreement with the MIT Center for Digital Business (CDB) to fund research on the impacts of new technologies in the communications, information, media and entertainment (CIME) industries.
Funds Research at MIT Center for Digital Business on Emerging Social Workplace - Jun 7, 2011
A panel I sat on at the GigaOM Mobile Enterprise Summit a few weeks ago got me thinking a lot about how mobility is taking shape in the enterprise. There’s little argument that Mobile is going to have a profound impact on how we work. Here’s my colleague Maribel Lopez , one of the sharpest minds on Enterprise Mobility, sizing up the opportunity: