Businesses around the world are transforming into extended enterprise networks but their training departments are stuck in the previous century. In Social Learning The process of Innovation WorkscapingThe Twenty-First Century Corporation. In the pursuit of trying to ?x Workers were mere cogs in those machines. Twenty-?rst MORE >>

I’m a big fan of Tim Stock ‘s work, which weaves together a deep network perspective with a rich view of how culture is changing informed by semiotic analysis. earlier shared one of his presentations in a post on how the culture of luxury is changing. Culture Networks (SXSW 2012). MORE >>

The column addresses a fundamental question that those studying innovation have been wrestling with for years:  “Are big companies the best catalysts of innovation, or are small ones better?” After 20 years where startups have rightly dominated the innovation headlines, we will show that the pendulum may be swinging back.  MORE >>

During the evening I had a very interesting conversation with one of the regional directors about how professional service firms are tapping external networks. As I wrote in Chapter 9 of Living Networks : Professional networks, although hardly a new phenomenon, are rapidly rising in importance. MORE >>

If in doubt, blame the culture seems to be a golden rule in consultancy and management alike. And of course once blame has been allocated we end up with a visitation from the cultural change specialists with their tool kit of communication plans, key drivers, motivational posters, games and the like. I'll quote from that article. MORE >>