Please note there are two Harolds as keynote presenters! Complexity and our interconnectivity have rendered the world unpredictable. To justify its continuing existence, the training department must shift direction in three areas: Embrace complexity and be open to uncertainty. Communities complexity SocialLearningTweet. MORE >>

Our present information technology and telecommunications age, whose starting point Perez pegs at 1971, is the fifth such major revolution in that span. Rather, they are based on applying the best complex systems thinking and organizational management practices to government institutions. This is not the case with citizens. MORE >>

Before examining how disruptive innovation might apply to higher education, one needs to first articulate the key problems with the present system: “Our country’s dominant higher education policies have focused on expanding access for more than half a century - allowing more students to afford higher education.  The key here is focus.  MORE >>

A few weeks after we announced the initiative in January of 2000, I gave a keynote presentation at the Linux World conference in New York City.  It has been widely adopted in business and government, in addition to its continued use in the research and Internet communities.  In those pre-Web 2.0 and social networks. MORE >>

My new interest was sparked in part by the work I have been doing over the past few years on complex systems , especially in market-facing complex systems involving people and services; and in part by my attempts to understand the underlying causes of the global financial crisis , the worst since the Great Depression. MORE >>