Interesting things we have found this week about building 21st Century business
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NOTICES
Lee is speaking today (Thursday) at Social Media in Utilities in London, and Cerys is speaking tomorrow (Friday) at Social Connections 8 in Boston. Come say hi if you are around.
We launched our new ESN Diagnostics offering and a mini blog series sharing what we have learned over the years about user adoption strategies and tactics for social collaboration platforms.
ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Hear from an ex-googler what it means to be a full-stack employee.
Get insights from the startup that introduced new techniques and tripled its revenue, inspired by Holacracy.
Self-organisation is a worthy goal, but here is why it is so hard to achieve in organisations.
INNOVATION
Led by Credit Suisse NEXT Investors, banks are supporting a startup, which will disrupt their own business.
Get the download of why IBM’s Watson represents the future of human-computer interactions.
3 questions that can help you predict the future of your business.
ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORKS
The digital workplace is complex. Org culture is complex. How can one shape the other?
The end of information asymmetries will lead easier trade & higher productivity.
Searching for new models for collaboration tools to create fluid interactions.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
User Adoption Strategy for Tenaris.
Thanks for the link to the Chris Messina post re full-stack employee – I think Elia Chang’s rebuttal is worth a read too https://modelviewculture.com/news/the-full-stack-employee-and-the-glorification-of-generalization
Thanks Julian – good food for thought in the link. I think the key difference is between valuing good knowledge across connected fields as a base level for any employee working in this type of role versus the need for real specialisms and also genuine polymaths.
Yes, my sense is that for many roles it’s the combination of good social learning skills (through disciplines such as PKM) and good context awareness (e.g. as aided by company-wide working aloud) that gives the most initial value…
Thanks for the link to the Chris Messina post re full-stack employee – I think Elia Chang’s rebuttal is worth a read too https://modelviewculture.com/news/the-full-stack-employee-and-the-glorification-of-generalization
Thanks Julian – good food for thought in the link. I think the key difference is between valuing good knowledge across connected fields as a base level for any employee working in this type of role versus the need for real specialisms and also genuine polymaths.
Yes, my sense is that for many roles it’s the combination of good social learning skills (through disciplines such as PKM) and good context awareness (e.g. as aided by company-wide working aloud) that gives the most initial value…