Yesterday I was preparing for an Innovation Management training session I will be doing later this week. The sponsor, after reviewing my credentials asked “How you make the leap from information and knowledge management to coaching/developing innovation skills? … Your background seems to be IT.” I provided what I hope was not too lengthy a […]
Last Friday’s cover of the Boston Metro proclaimed “ How recession is forcing creativity in entertainment.” It’s an interesting article on how the current economy mixed with the advent of Web 2.0 is affecting the entertainment industry, but the title held a different appeal for me. Serendipitously, I am working on IAI’s soon to be […]
While much of the work that we do is focused on the application of technology to business workers, we’ll depart from that theme in this interview, to address issues around personal development, team-based working, and the “strengths movement” coming out of Positive Psychology – along with the re-invention of the publishing industry in the form […]
In 2008, Dan Keldsen and I published on behalf of AIIM, a groundbreaking report on Enterprise 2.0. One of the more startling and fundamental facts that we uncovered was that age did not matter as much as folks thought, as it relates to the adoption of Enterprise 2.0. In fact it really didn’t matter at […]
Arguably there is no important time than NOW to ensure that your organization has an innovation strategy. After all, without a strategy, how are you going to making the changes to your business that you need to make, in order to survive the economic storm, and (if you move quickly and intelligently) to be well […]
In this latest podcast, IAM Talking with Carlos Dominguez, Senior Vice President in Cisco’s Office of the Chairman of the Board and CEO. Carlos has worked at Cisco for 17 years in a variety of roles, and advocates for the broad and creative use of technologies that are transforming how companies do business, creating distinct […]
IAM Talking with Cisco: Making Innovation Work in a Downturn [ 33 min 47 s ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThanks to the generosity of Randy Corke of Chaordix, this Wednesday I had the opportunity to go to a meeting of the Ad Club. The Ad Club is the trade organization for marketing, advertising and communications in New England. A different crowd for me. So why was I invited? Why did I go? The topic […]
I have said it before, as have many others, Enterprise 2.0 is not just about technology. As I have commented on, this was a common theme at this year’s Enterprise 2.0 conference. Indeed, if web-based collaboration were only about the technology, then any organization with even a modest IT budget would be doing it and […]
IAM Alert: Amazon.com has announced a “definitive agreement” to purchase the ecommerce, “powered by service” Zappos.com for 10 million shares of Amazon stock (current market value of $807 million). (see the Letter from the CEO – Tony Hsieh – to Zappos employees, describing the drivers and benefits behind the acquisition) Amazon has long been held […]
As I blogged about in my summation of the Enterprise 2.0 summit, innovation was a popular term being tossed around at the conference. New web-based social networks provide new, wider, leaner and more agile environments in which to collaborate, group think and brainstorm, leading to innovation. But there is (obviously?) more to innovation than simply […]
