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Roy Youngman

  • Atomic Units of Collaboration
    In my last post, I suggested that groups of people could effectively collaborate on details if they had the mindset to do so, but most do not. In this post, I want to discuss ... read more
  • Collaborating in Among the Weeds
    Detail the devils in it, executives delegate it, and consultants typically fear it. Detail is the stuff that you can work on later when you are alone. Detail is the ultimate conversation and collaboration killer. Or is it? Wiki technology ... read more
  • Collaboration: Follow the Passion
    In my last post, I listed three behaviors senior people should consider when trying to encourage collaboration across the enterprise. The third behavior was Follow the Passion. This one I think is the ... read more
  • When Group-Think Poses as Collaboration
    I try to go on ski trips with about three other people. Too many more always seems to lessen the overall experience in some way. Often you find yourself waiting when youd rather be skiing. Sometimes you find yourself skiing ... read more
  • Metadata Management by Wiki
    As a former data architect, I still find myself networking with and interested in the work of data gurus at various companies. These are the guys and gals that build data models, design databases, create ETL logic, and manage what ... read more
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Esteban

Frank Capek

George Danner

  • Inspirations from E2.0
    I had the great privilege to attend Enterprise 2.0 this week in Boston with our friends from New Paradigm, now part of the nGenera Innovation Network. Perhaps it was the intellectual energy of Cambridge or the diversity and enthusiasm of ... read more
  • The role of intuition and experience in modeling
    I was visiting with a client the other day. We were talking about the possibility of building a model to support a small airlines operation. A gentleman in the room, a subject matter expert on aviation operations, turned to me ... read more
  • Predicting the Future
    I am often asked by clients, colleagues (and even family), "can your models really predict the future?". It's enticing to think that it's possible to know, with absolute certainty, how the future will play out--in a business dealing, in world ... read more
  • Welcome to our journey
    We are entering yet another exciting chapter in the history of Industrial Science. Founded just under three years ago, we have witnessed an amazing number of complex business organizations and the problems that they face. We have learned a great ... read more
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Tom Casey

  • Pas, UMNO perlu bersatu bantah campur tangan AS
    KUALA LUMPUR 2 Julai - Barisan Bertindak Perpaduan Melayu (BBPM) merayu Pas dan UMNO bersatu untuk menghalang campur tangan Amerika Syarikat (AS) dalam urusan dalaman negara. Ketua Umumnya, Osman Abu Bakar berkata, kedua-dua parti orang Melayu itu perlu segera berbuat demikian ... read more
  • HR's Leadership Role in Organizational Spin-Offs
    Introduction Organizational spin-offs offer companies the chance to reinvent the business while keeping a core of the familiar. Start a new company (NewCo), yet keep the advantages of existing customers, products, operations, and people. Re-focus an existing company (Parent) around ... read more
  • Outsourced Contact Centers - The Service Imperative
    At 12 PM a caller contacts a major U.S. airline to make a reservation and is connected to India. At the same time, a cell phone customer has a question about their new wireless plan and is connected to the ... read more
  • Self Directed Leadership Development
    The topic of leadership is like love; it defies definition in any organized manner. The same is the emerging view regarding leadership development as even those organizations, which profess to do it well, acknowledge that there are issues that ... read more
  • High Performance Executive Teams
    These days you cannot read a business periodical or participate in a meeting where the need for teamwork and frustration associated with sub optimization isn't being discussed. The sad truth is that in this era of restructuring where resources ... read more
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Julien Dionne

Eric Larson

Tammy Erickson

Tony Gonzalez

Brian Magierski

Susan Scrupski

  • More fun with Enterprise 2.0 diagrams
    Thanks for all the help and suggestions on the collaborative work of art in my last post. I’m still getting to making corrections/suggestions that came in on the comments. In the meantime, you can help yourself to the diagram, as < ... read more
  • Circles of Expertise in 2.0 for Biz
    For a long while now, Jevon MacDonald and I have been grousing about how the different players involved in delivering 2.0 solutions to business can often be confused and misunderstood. We started working on a graphic, which I’ll happily &# ... read more
  • Andrew McAfee: Rebel with a Cause
    A number of us at nGenera have been discussing internally what it means to communicate and create a supportive, yet fluid culture in the 2.0 era. One of our guys asked the question, “what was your ‘a-ha’ moment when ... read more
  • Prepare Ye: the We Generation is Upon Us.
    So, yeah. I wanted to change the world in my 20s. In some ways, I thought I could with Unix and my first Mac. But, mostly, I just ended up talking about it a lot to anyone who cared ... read more
  • A Year's Summary of Personal Reflection II
    It’s that time again when I feel compelled not only to wrap up highlights of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, but to divulge my thinking on where we are in the progression of widespread 2.0 adoption — in our personal lives ... read more
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Tom Steinthal

Katie Tierney

Vaughan Merlyn

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