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Category Archives: Purpose
The Phone and the Organization
Take a minute to watch this instructional video from 1954 on how to dial a rotary telephone Now take a minute to think about how new these concepts must have seemed to people in 1954. Now take another minute to … Continue reading
Posted in Organization, People, Purpose, Strategy, Tools
Tagged communication, fluency, future, history, Organization, telephone
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Turning TEDxBloomington Ideas Into Action
TEDxBloomington was a great event that brought together local government officials, citizens, students, researchers, celebrities, employees, business owners, to share knowledge about today and ideas for the future. A question that was on many lips and on even more minds … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Purpose, Strategy, Uncategorized
Tagged collective action, strategy
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Your business isn’t all about the numbers. The numbers are all about your business.
There is a general spoken and unspoken idea that businesses are all about “the numbers.” I’d like to suggest an alternate idea: Your business isn’t all about the numbers. The numbers are all about your business. Businesses who focus on … Continue reading
The Difference Between Digital Literacy and Digital Fluency
Update 1/18/2012: This blog post was written in February of 2011, but has been receiving a lot of interest recently. We are close to releasing a book on this topic. If you find this post interesting, feel free to download … Continue reading
People: The Next Step in Social Software Adoption
The adoption of social software (a.k.a. social media, social computing, enterprise 2.0, etc) within organizations seems to be taking the following general path: focusing first on the tools, then on the broader purpose for those tools, and next, people and their skills … Continue reading
Posted in People, Purpose, Tools
Tagged adoption, alignment, digital fluency, enterprise 2.0, people, social media, social software
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The Need for Balance In the Digital Age
For the last year we’ve been researching and working with all different types of organizations in the areas that relate to the use of digital, and especially digital social technologies. One of the most important factors for success (or failure) … Continue reading
Posted in People, Purpose, Tools, Uncategorized
Tagged balance, digital media, people, purpose, tools
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New Collaborative Strategy Process: Preliminary Test Results
A few days ago, i wrote about a new collaborative strategy process that we are testing. The results show promise. The goal of the process is to enable a group of people to collaboratively develop an idea of the top … Continue reading
Posted in Purpose, Uncategorized
Tagged collaborative strategy, complexity, wicked problems
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Envisioning Possible Futures – Imagination Fluency
Any time a group of people do something together to build or improve an organization, plan a party, or go on a bike ride, a certain number of people within that group will have to come up with and promote … Continue reading
Posted in General, People, Purpose
Tagged Eric von Hippel, imagination fluency, Innocentive
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Finding the Right Media for the Context
One of the key indicators of fluency with a language or a medium is the knowledge of what tool to use when. Should we meet face-to-face more often for project meetings, or should we use video conferencing? Should we use … Continue reading
Social Computing and Pattern-Based Strategy
I just happened across a brand new Gartner report that placed “the business impact of social computing” and “pattern-based strategy” side-by-side as atwo of the four converging trends that “will change the face of IT and business.” At first the … Continue reading