A few minutes back on my other blog OrganizationalThinking
something caught my eye. Just a link. It was Otto Schamer's blog.
Even though I am not in Egypt or the area where the change of
history is happening right, I am confident that words and connecting
people, resonate, and reshape thinking through conversation will
also make a difference from the city of Dresden.
1989 in Dresden (back then East Germany) and elsewhere the pictures
were quite similar to the ones today we see on YouTube, CableTv, and
Twitter and Facebook.
Let's support each other with what we know from our past history. We
can all learn together collectively across boundaries (that are only existent
in our minds).
WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
The Tipping Point of Collaboration
It was summer 2009 when Google announced Google Wave as the "next big thing". Should it be useful for the (potential) users?
I remember vividly meeting with Alina Hsu in Harvard in 2009. We talked about Lean Thinking, System Dynamics. The major finding was, "An aggregator for all this interdisciplinary information is deeply needed. Is there one way or the other?" A few months later I got an invite to GoogleWave by Siggi Becker. The experiment could start.
We have used the tool for several sub-projects around LockSchuppen - quite successfully.
Then early 2010 the big earthquake in Haiti hit the news. Quickly the desaster made it clear that GoogleWave was helpful in order to work as an integrator of information flows. Nevertheless the service and active contribution by Google to its newest collaboration tool was lately cut down.
Egypt and its people raised the "Power of Pull" (thanks John Hagel & John Seely Brown) to reinitiate the platform to collectively create our future. (Note: one has to have a GoogleWave account to step in, searching for "Egypt" a seed will be found).
There are probably already hundreds of blog, website, aggregators of news/ info / support on the web. Let bring them together in a joint effort. This small seed could be helpful - just a beginning for a lovely flowbed of collective knowledge ;-)
I remember vividly meeting with Alina Hsu in Harvard in 2009. We talked about Lean Thinking, System Dynamics. The major finding was, "An aggregator for all this interdisciplinary information is deeply needed. Is there one way or the other?" A few months later I got an invite to GoogleWave by Siggi Becker. The experiment could start.
We have used the tool for several sub-projects around LockSchuppen - quite successfully.
Then early 2010 the big earthquake in Haiti hit the news. Quickly the desaster made it clear that GoogleWave was helpful in order to work as an integrator of information flows. Nevertheless the service and active contribution by Google to its newest collaboration tool was lately cut down.
Egypt and its people raised the "Power of Pull" (thanks John Hagel & John Seely Brown) to reinitiate the platform to collectively create our future. (Note: one has to have a GoogleWave account to step in, searching for "Egypt" a seed will be found).
There are probably already hundreds of blog, website, aggregators of news/ info / support on the web. Let bring them together in a joint effort. This small seed could be helpful - just a beginning for a lovely flowbed of collective knowledge ;-)
Friday, February 4, 2011
Wild Dueck and Saxonian Entrepreneurs
Saxonian division of BVMW had its New Years Reception at Messe Leipzig and was actually tweeted. Gunter Dueck AKA wilddueck, Chief Technology Officer of IBM Germany, running his personal website, on the list of distinguished speakers. No agenda, no powerpoints (!), pure PASSION!
Story after story he drew the audience deeper and deeper into what is for techies and Web 2.0 addicts already inevitable: the WEB changes business, education, and society.
The knowledge worker 2.0 is morphing into reality. It is a Jules Verne story we are playing the main role right now and then. Future is written today! And we personally are as entrepreneurs, politicians, teachers, professors, managers, workers, employees the very active part of changing the world.
What is it your company is already adapting to that in order to be on top of list in the future?
Story after story he drew the audience deeper and deeper into what is for techies and Web 2.0 addicts already inevitable: the WEB changes business, education, and society.
The knowledge worker 2.0 is morphing into reality. It is a Jules Verne story we are playing the main role right now and then. Future is written today! And we personally are as entrepreneurs, politicians, teachers, professors, managers, workers, employees the very active part of changing the world.
What is it your company is already adapting to that in order to be on top of list in the future?
Thursday, January 20, 2011
From Entrepreneurial Ego-Systems to Eco-Systems
VivekWadhwa, a tech-entrepreneur, academic, researcher, and writer, on why and how the economy can be re-boosted (not just in the US (!)) through accelerating the startup process. Like in any eco-system the entrepreneurial eco-system needs certain ingredients, without which fresh startups (either in the tech, computer science, design, production, and service field) can't really emerge.
It needs some kind of constraint to build up the ability to grow steadily (and not dying in the first down turn of the economy). Especially where subsidies are paid out the constraints are hidden by this money, only leading to future difficulties when the subsidies are not any longer in practice. In about two years time the subsidies in area of the former GDR will run out (the track will move further East to the new economies, where subsidies are paid for development).
Then the same will happen as was seen in Finland in the beginning of the 90s, where in the area of Jyväskylä, a new form of entrepreneur education popped up in form of TeamAcademy. Combining this model with other initiatives such as High Tech U (HTU) and the library and institution of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden could also a very special blend of eco-system.
What new models for generating economic growth with what is at hand already?
It needs some kind of constraint to build up the ability to grow steadily (and not dying in the first down turn of the economy). Especially where subsidies are paid out the constraints are hidden by this money, only leading to future difficulties when the subsidies are not any longer in practice. In about two years time the subsidies in area of the former GDR will run out (the track will move further East to the new economies, where subsidies are paid for development).
Then the same will happen as was seen in Finland in the beginning of the 90s, where in the area of Jyväskylä, a new form of entrepreneur education popped up in form of TeamAcademy. Combining this model with other initiatives such as High Tech U (HTU) and the library and institution of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden could also a very special blend of eco-system.
What new models for generating economic growth with what is at hand already?
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Changing to the Better - Would You Dare?
In tough times, challenges ahead, just take the detour to the bookstore closest to you. Stroll around (in the real Presencing mode) and let surprises catch you. Mine was definitely MikeRother's newest book which I found in German version (quite uncommon for lean or state of the art international business literature).
My key points taking away:
1. Change can't be imposed to running processes (which are mainly influenced and lived by people) through workshops, specialists/experts, teaching outside the workplace
2. MBM - Management by Means (to go the next level managing what you have most elegantly)
3. Start small - even though you can't really foresee what the future brings
4. Do that - quick, transparent, and learn immediately on feedback
5. Mike mentioned a holistic view, where everything is connected, which goes right into system dynamics
6. ... ask yourself where you are today (with the company), where you want to be (in the future), and what is currently hindering you. Then decide on small action that go into that future direction (immediately (!)) and let your folks on the shopfloor and office have their way (they mostly know best)
Reading through the following books is also highly recommended in doing the follow up and putting the read into practice. They are not mentioned in the book, however it became clear to me that the fields are highly interconnected. A small investment for a person, a huge for personal learning, and an immense for the people and the organization!
1. Business Dynamics, John Sterman
2. Theory U - To Lead from the Future as it Emerges, Otto Scharmer
3. Process Consultation, Edgar Schein
My key points taking away:
1. Change can't be imposed to running processes (which are mainly influenced and lived by people) through workshops, specialists/experts, teaching outside the workplace
2. MBM - Management by Means (to go the next level managing what you have most elegantly)
3. Start small - even though you can't really foresee what the future brings
4. Do that - quick, transparent, and learn immediately on feedback
5. Mike mentioned a holistic view, where everything is connected, which goes right into system dynamics
6. ... ask yourself where you are today (with the company), where you want to be (in the future), and what is currently hindering you. Then decide on small action that go into that future direction (immediately (!)) and let your folks on the shopfloor and office have their way (they mostly know best)
Reading through the following books is also highly recommended in doing the follow up and putting the read into practice. They are not mentioned in the book, however it became clear to me that the fields are highly interconnected. A small investment for a person, a huge for personal learning, and an immense for the people and the organization!
1. Business Dynamics, John Sterman
2. Theory U - To Lead from the Future as it Emerges, Otto Scharmer
3. Process Consultation, Edgar Schein
Sunday, January 16, 2011
A small group CAN make a CHANGE
The most positively disturbing article for quite some time on entrepreneurship and the "game change" by Vivek Wadhwa. Following the essential:
"There is nothing to prevent there being many Silicon Valleys and nothing to stop most regions in the world from innovating. The focus just has to change from investing in real estate to investing in people."
"There is nothing to prevent there being many Silicon Valleys and nothing to stop most regions in the world from innovating. The focus just has to change from investing in real estate to investing in people."
Friday, January 14, 2011
Don't be Evil - Just Do Good, the Rest will Evolve
Times are going faster every day, at least it feels like it. Talking with someone of Forio, a system dynamics simulation consulting based in San Francisco, I stumbled across the SD Forum.
"Creative Destruction of Companies
For many organizations, alarm bells were going off long before the meltdown of financial markets. The emergence of two-way traffic on the internet has been destructive to many markets and companies. The classic example is Wikipedia, the free web encyclopedia based on “user-generated content...." (taken from the booklet)
Are our organizations running full speed into the crossing, seeing the traffic light on RED yet thinking, "We will be fine moving on!"?
Don't Be Evil crossed my eyesight and whooosh it didn't take long to dig deeper into this interesting sounding info.
"Creative Destruction of Companies
For many organizations, alarm bells were going off long before the meltdown of financial markets. The emergence of two-way traffic on the internet has been destructive to many markets and companies. The classic example is Wikipedia, the free web encyclopedia based on “user-generated content...." (taken from the booklet)
Are our organizations running full speed into the crossing, seeing the traffic light on RED yet thinking, "We will be fine moving on!"?
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