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The post-productive economy Kevin Kelly makes some great points about a "post-productive economy". This really scratches lots of itches for me. Even if you don't agree with him, I think it's a great attempt to get fish to see water: challenging some deep...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on January 21, 2013
Will the net disintermediate a whole class? Harold Jarche reflects on Jaron Lanier's prediction that The people who are perhaps the most screwed by open culture are the middle classes of intellectual and cultural creation. The freelance studio musician, the stringer selling reports to newspapers from warzones...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on January 9, 2013
Emergence and onlyness Tim Kastelle has tweeted two great spots recently: Experimentation is the new planning a Fast Company article contrasting conventional with emergent strategising. I think a lot of managers might find this thought a bit scary:Let’s be honest: You have no...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on September 16, 2012
Chiefs, indians and networks Eariler this week I went to the Cambridge Pitch & Mix. There was a great mix of people and lots of ideas stuck in my mind. One in particular was a comment made that the tech scene in Cambridge suffered...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on September 7, 2012
A rocket aimed at conventional education? Kevin Carey has a fascinating article looking at the growing number of startups challenging conventional universities with cheap online services. I've felt for a long time that education would eventually suffer the kind of disruptive change that has hit the...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on August 30, 2012
Against big-is-best banking In One Man Against Wall St, Simon Johnson introduces us to Jeff Connaughton. He's a Wall Street pro who now spends his time debunking the arguments for big-is-best megabanks. It makes a lot of sense to me. I think that...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on August 27, 2012
Talk about agile... Shinsato spotted this remarkable TED talk by Joe Justice on using agile processes to develop a legal (and amazing looking) car with exceptional fuel efficiency, in three months. He highlights how slow improvements are in conventional cars because their...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on August 22, 2012
Savage clarity I like Jay Rosen's perspective on journalism in a time of wicked problems. (Thanks to Harold Jarche for the link) Near the end, Rosen calls for "savage clarity" in journalism. Harold picks up on that phrase and I like it...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on June 27, 2012
Central currencies vs peer-to-peer Doug Rushkoff believes central currencies, and big corporations, were invented to repress peer-to-peer production. And their time is now up.It's not the 99% who need to retrain themselves in order to get jobs. It's the 1% who need to face...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on March 25, 2012
It's the network, baby Harold Jarche has written a good, succinct post on the shift managers have to make from hierarchy to network. It makes lots of sense to me, and it's a challenge I'm seeing lots of organisations wrestle with. Harold challenges the...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on November 3, 2011
Another disintermediator... John Steen asks,Have you heard of Ruslan Kogan? I think he is one of the most exciting business entrepreneurs in recent years. I only got to hear about him when the major Australian electronics retailers started to complain about how...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on May 28, 2011
Networks and complexity I enjoyed Antony Mayfield's notes on business networks. This line resonated strongly:We don’t grasp how magnificently, terrifyingly complex networks are. We like to draw pictures of them and then think we’ve captured their meaning, when they are more like the...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on April 15, 2011
Thoughts on networks Roland Harwood has written a nice post about working in networks. Short on jargon, long on common sense. Viv and I often riff on Roland's mantra: conversations, then relationships, then transactions. He remembers the days of the maligned "old boy...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on April 11, 2011
Benny Hill on social networks In a hierarchical world, the cohesive authority group has the edge over a loose agglomeration of individuals. In a networked world, the scales may be reversed. The loose agglomeration have a far higher capacity to reorganise themselves, and the authority...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on December 2, 2010
Mickey Mouse and Social Media Rob makes a great point in his post about Boingo's human approach to social media. At Disney the surface of the Brand Icon never changes but inside the mask is a person who changes all the time and so is...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on October 2, 2010

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