'2005 was the year when more than 50% of US workers’ occupations involved non-routine cognitive work, that long-awaited milestone. complexity SocialBusiness Wirearchy Stowe Boyd. “Work has become distributed, discontinuous, and decentralized, hence, 3D” , says Stowe. – Ross Dawson. MORE >>

The world was waking up to the growing economic power of emerging markets and the BRICs in particular, especially with the publication of The World is Flat in April of 2005, Tom Friedman’s best-seller that did so much to explain the transformative powers of globalization and digital technologies. As summarized in its  website :  . MORE >>

In the spring of 2005, IBM used a wiki to create a set guidelines to provide practical advice for employees who wanted to blog.  Tags: Complex Systems Economic Issues Education and Talent Innovation Management and Leadership Society and Culture Virtual Worlds Each panel included experts from USC Annenberg and IBM. or something. MORE >>

This IT-based productivity resurgence has continued , except for a short period that reflects the declining IT investment right after the bursting of the dot-com bubble , and the maturing of the global economic expansion in 2005 and 2006.  As the US recovers from the financial. between 1973 and 1995.  economy.  open information access. MORE >>

At present, US demographics  are undergoing very rapid changes:     “Currently, population growth is fastest among minorities as a whole, and according to the Census Bureau's estimation for 2005, 45% of American children under the age of 5 belonged to minority groups. We are now going through another such major transition. MORE >>