Both present and future leaders expect the business environment to grow significantly more complex over time.  This is one of the main conclusions of two recent studies conducted by IBM, the 2010 Global CEO Study , and the companion student study, Inheriting a Complex World.  Are self-regulated free markets always the best answer ?  MORE >>

was asked to provide some initial recommendations for that initiative, in the form of responses to five questions. In essence, education and educational services represent one of the largest examples of the value-add online services distribution model. As one small example, the e-textbook market, which was 1.5 HRSDC. MORE >>

Our social systems are not designed to cope with complexity. Social and transformational architecture encompasses complexity and emergent change.” Critical thinking is not just thinking more deeply but also asking difficult and discomfiting questions. complexity WirearchyHierarchy kills all learning. MORE >>

In thinking about this question  over the last few years, I started to notice that a number of subtle, non-intuitive concepts that I learned many years ago as a physics student seem to apply to the world of big data and information-based predictions in highly complex systems.  players, is an example of such a system. MORE >>

The Times’ Paywall and Newsletter Economics » The Collapse of Complex Business Models. From the Q&A after, it was clear that for them, the question wasn’t whether the internet was going to alter their business, but about the mode and tempo of that alteration. That kind of question comes up a lot. Twice!) MORE >>