Business & Society Belgium. Buurtzorg. We Helpen. Corporations must join the Collaborative Economy. Right now, customers are sharing media and ideas on social technologies, in the near future, they’ll use similar technologies to share products and services, which will cause a ripple of impacts far more disruptive than what we’ve seen before.
Disruption: Customers are now sharing products and services with each other, like AirBnb (vs hotels), Lyft (vs buying cars), Lendingclub (vs banks), 99 Dresses (instead of buying clothes), odesk (vs traditional hiring methods) as an alternative to traditional sales, in fact, our small list of 200 startups only has a portion of the services that have emerged, enabling this trend. At Altimeter, we’ve been tracking this space, including a number of blog posts tagged Collaborative Economy (list of startups, list of corporations involved and more), an upcoming free webinar that you can join, and I’ll be announcing some private events for our clients to dive in further. The executive summary encapsulates what you need to know: Developer Auction. E-book Plan C 2013 'Tot uw dienst' Adam Johnson Garbology. The joys of launching a business with a strong "Why" It has been a little while since I've been around these parts, generally just loitering around the fringes offering a +1 here and there.
Sorry. The reason I've gone quiet is because life offline has gone crazy busy. In a good way. And since it relates to this community, I'm going to bend my own self-imposed rule and share what I'm up to with the community. In short, I finished up my paid employment a few weeks ago after a LOOONG notice period (6 months), and started full time in my business Garbologie. Garbologie is a business focused on creating a world without waste. Once the "why" is settled and out of the way, it is actually very easy to find opportunities.
The first opportunity I've landed on is mattress recycling. I don't think that's good enough, and so have set up Garbologie Mattress. My business plan was to start out with 50 mattresses per month, and then steadily grow that to 1,000 mattresses per month. Plan C vzw zoekt een voltijdse community manager (m/v) Plan C vzw zoekt een ondernemende netwerker die gepassioneerd is door nieuwe media en journalistiek.
Heb je een vlotte pen en ben je bij uitstek geïnteresseerd in duurzaam materialenbeheer, duurzame ontwikkeling, systeeminnovatie en transitiedenken? Pionierswerk van Plan C slagkracht geven. Jiska Verhulst is de allereerste netwerkdirecteur van Plan C, een mijlpaal voor het Vlaams Transitienetwerk voor Duurzaam Materialenbeheer dat al sinds 2006 als informeel netwerk actief is.
“De uitdaging voor mij is het pionierswerk de nodige slagkracht te geven door de visie verder te vertalen in concrete acties en doorbraken.” Jiska Verhulst was tot voor kort actief bij OVAM als hoofd van het team beleidsondersteuning van de afdeling Bodembeheer. “Ook in die functie werkte ik aan visie-ontwikkeling waarvoor een draagvlak moest worden gecreëerd. Om die visie te kunnen realiseren was het daarbij telkens belangrijk de juiste medestanders te vinden om gezamenlijk vooropgestelde doelen te bereiken. Dat is ook precies wat Plan C doet. Gift Education - Schumacher College. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Ghandi. Holacracy. Juan Enriquez: Your online life, permanent as a tattoo. Positieve Economie. Positive Entrepreneurs. Ten IT-enabled business trends for the decade ahead. Three years ago, we described ten information technology-enabled business trends that were profoundly altering the business landscape.
The pace of technology change, innovation, and business adoption since then has been stunning. Consider that the world’s stock of data is now doubling every 20 months; the number of Internet-connected devices has reached 12 billion; and payments by mobile phone are hurtling toward the $1 trillion mark. This progress both reflects the trends we described three years ago and is influencing their shape.
The article that follows updates our 2010 list. (For a more detailed treatment, download the related white paper [PDF–1MB] from the McKinsey Global Institute.) The dramatic pace at which two trends have been advancing is transforming them into 21st-century business “antes”: competitive necessities for most if not all companies. Implicit in our earlier work, and explicit in this update, is a focus on information and communication technologies. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Why Big Data Will Never Beat Human Intuition. Big Data is big business.
Sensors, GPS tracking, math modeling, and artificial intelligence offer companies real-time market insights at massive scale and open the door to unprecedented ways of monitoring, targeting, and measuring employees and customers. Analyst firm Gartner predicts that enterprises adopting Big Data technologies will “outperform competitors by 20 percent in every available financial metric.”
Big Data might well be “the new oil,” but I would caution us not to worship it as the new religion. I’m afraid that amidst all the data frenzy we are not only losing a more holistic view of business but also an important part of our humanity. How do we appreciate quality if we capture it only in quants? I am not a dataphobe, but I am concerned about relying only on data. Big Data comes with many benefits, but let’s complement it with Big Intuition.