Putting the soul back to national and organizational economics
Gary Hamel wrote a great article about the lack of purpose and values in the corporate world at the Management Innovation Exchange. This post reminded me of a comment, I think by Drucker, that money is like oxygen for corporations. You cannot live without it but noone lives just to breathe. I think the industrial age became the dominant metaphor in our ways of thinking, especially in the business world and the business world became focused on metrics, processes to the degree of neglecting personel and intra-personal qualities, which are in a sence harder to develop because they are more...
read moreCorporate collaboration makes semifinalist for the HCI Human Capital M-Prize
The Management Innovation eXchange, an open innovation project for reinventing management for the 21st century, recently announced the semifinalists for the HCI Human Capital M-Prize. It is great to see IDEO’s collaboration system make one of the 10 semifinalists in this contest. Doug Solomon, CTO of IDEO company, talks about the design principles of their system, which you can read here. I agree especially with three of the five parameters, that the systems should reward and incentivize contribution, that it should bring intuitive interfaces and be able to integrate...
read moreHappy birthday wikipedia
On January 15th, Wikipedia celebrated its tenth birthday. It is great to see the continuation of such a large scale collaboration project. Wikipedia has its critics, but it for sure adds a lot of value. Even if you do not like or agree with its model or value proposition, I think it is interesting as an experiment and merits supports for that as well. When I search for a topic, I often read the wikipedia entry for a quick introduction and follow on with the links at the bottom of the articles. When Wikipedia asked for a donation last year, I happily contributed. Shortly afterwards,...
read moreWanna reward people? Do something *truly* meaningful.
Reading through Idea Management Group debate on Linked-in titled “Use contribution rewarding system or not”. It’s a debate about how to incentivize people (employees foremost, but also external partners, customers, etc) to innovate with the company, so that… so that what? that they get an iPod. Who-hoo.. listen to more music and BE HAPPY. of course, if you have an iPod, you will be happy, no? for a minute you will be – you will project the beautiful moments you will have with your iPod. From all the movies you’ve seen – you must be able to feel like a...
read moreDragonfly Effect
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