Knowledge Management: The Price of Entry Knowledge management requires a price, and good design an even higher price. It is important that those involved in knowledge management pay attention, acutely, to the world around them, if they are to pick up the weak signals that precede new knowledge, or the wake of dissonance that alerts […]
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Machine Learning Will Challenge Work and Intellectual Property Law
I have been briefing with companies that find patterns in data. In my recent Pinchot “intensive” I was talking to students about the kind of patterns that could be found, as well as the implications for intellectual property law related to pattern recognition…
Apple Event: I Waited Too Long For You To Only Cover Things that Were Leaked
Tim Cook and company, as expected today, announced a bunch of stuff they already announced for about 30-minutes (iPhone 6, Yosemite, i?Cloud, iOS 8 updates, Apple Watch, etc.), and then announced a number of products for which features were already leaked. I’m not sure what we waited so long for in this line-up for. I was hoping Apple was going to go with a nostalgic announcement that it had really kept secret, something like a 128GB solid-state iPod Classic, iMacs with color bezels or perhaps an Apple stylus for the iPad. But no…
Angry Birds Layoffs: Poor strategic aim causes pigs to proliferate as Rovio’s growth slows
Rovio, the makers of Angry Birds, recently announced layoffs, as reported in Wired and elsewhere. I don’t believe, however, that Rovio’s issues stem from the inherent nature of mobile gaming.
If we look at their iconic games, we find “innovations” that distract from game play and push advertising and upgrades at every turn. Angry Birds started as an engaging game playing experience that was simple and well designed. Rovio has lost its strategic path as the company attempted to enhance revenue streams through push sales automation and near coercion of their audience.
What exactly is Microsoft Delve?
Download PDF here What is it? Microsoft Delve is an machine learning technology that integrates with Microsoft Office 365. Delve discovers patterns within Office 365 using analysis from documents, calendars and communications, including e-mail. The technology provides personalized, contextual awareness of information that its relevant to a particular knowledge worker’s current activity. Who […]
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Scenario Planning: Getting to the Matrix
The creation of the matrix is the most intellectually challenging analysis that takes place during a scenario planning project, and also the intuitive. Because of this dual nature, it is also the most difficult to teach because the process uses and combination of implicit and tacit knowledge. This blog post intends to make the implicit knowledge explicit, while identifying the areas of tacit knowledge, or ‘content-dependent practical knowledge’ (Thornton 2013), in use at the same time.
Why Big Data is Making Your Phone Ring During Dinner
Big data wants to know how you will vote in November (it also wanted to know how voters would lean in the Scottish national vote and other exercises in democracy around the world). Well, not big data exactly but other bigs: big business, big campaigns. But there is no data about the future.
How to Write a Good Scenario Planning Focal Question
The focal question in scenario planning acts as an anchor and as a fence. It anchors the project so that people are clear about what they are solving for. “The future of learning” will pull in dialog about learning, acting like gravity, placing appropriate ideas, concepts and evidence in orbit, while material not related to the question floats off.
Four Quick, Easy, Surefire Ways of Improving Customer Experience
MightyCall‘s Edmund Tee captured some of my comments from a recent advisory session and posted them as a blog. He did a great job of representing the issues we were discussing. His accuracy also reflects on the value of recording meetings so you don’t have to rely just on handwritten notes.
How to Think About Voting For Uncertainties in a Scenario Planning Project
Voting for uncertainties in a scenario planning project is counterintuitive and sometimes overwhelming. The list of items arrives for consideration from interviews and research in which the people voting didn’t likely participate. That means that people voting need to familiarize themselves with the items on the list.
