Organizational Change

Some IT gurus gathered at Harvard the other day to discuss offshoring, outsourcing, etc., etc. Nothing new in that, but one intriguing idea got discussed toward the end: the 24-hour knowledge factory. That is, if companies have branches or contractors around the world they can work on projects 24/7. At one guy put it: …Gupta described his dream: a twenty-four-hour ...

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,574323,00.html DAVID KIRKPATRICK Why ‘Bottom Up’ Is On Its Way Up This new style of business, birthed by the Internet, is ignored at any company’s peril. FORTUNE Monday, January 12, 2004 What do these things have in common: the TV show American Idol, Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, eBay, and the open-source Linux operating system? They’re all manifestations of a key ...

A recent opinion-piece in Wired magazine is titled flatly: “Futurism is Dead.” The article condemns the field of futurism and the World Future Society in particular as failures because the record of predictions from professional futurists has been so bad. The great irony is that there has been no publication with as many articles over the past 10 to 15 ...

Social networking targets the enterprise Here’s a new gimmick that is CRM, Friendster and social software all rolled into one. And it seems pretty snoopy too.