Some posts on the web these times about Education 2.0, Classroom 2.0 and so one... As a lecturer in MBA's, some feelings on all that stuff: - first of all, a nice report , with comments , rather optimistic, showing new trends - then less positive views and comments - some good lists of new exciting tools for education.. I tried, as a lot of professors in Europe, to use and spread those techniques, from informal networks with ning for classrooms to some moodle or dokeos ...
Web 2.0: a large bag with so different feelings and philosophies. Can "subversive" concepts become institutional? Can those tools and techniques, reflects of self image, with a total appropriation (what do I do now..., my specific passions and friends..., it's happening now..., my special tricky way to access information...,), become a common practice for everybody? Will people seek contact and networks or go back to CAN (Computer aided narcissism) ? This one open the ...
Fantastic video to re-stimulate your minds (if necessary). A Microsoft research using photos of real or virtual objects "scraped from around the Web, creating multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation". Some short thoughts on that: - This idea of making real hyperlinks between photos, videos open the question: Who code the links? who makes the relations. To day the "machine" is still a bit unable to do that (image semantic ...
I just recently found this David Weinberger fantastic presentation video (alerted by Tony Karrer blog). Very close of my way of thinking. I really love it (content, style, ideology). A bit long (57 mn) but no feeling of time looking at it! ...I permanently have a difficult relation with order (who defines the order? why, for which reason...), I like freedom of choice in existentialist way (and without illusion, knowing internal and external determinisms...). ...I prefer Google search ...
IT Governance is key, but some good tricks and more there if you want to fail ! And you know that bad IT governance is a big risk ... - Look about IT governance this "perfect" synthesis report by PWC... - And what is board implication in IT governance? and more ... The first objective of IT governance is strategic alignment (this "mechanical" concept !). A rather new magazine focus on that... - Concerning alignment, some nice companies , Staples, ...
(stole the title of this post from there ...) Let's start these posts by this fantastic recent study by Bain about trends on usage of management tools in 2007. This study shows usage and usage satisfaction, in different continents, of the main "management tools" : Balanced Scorecard, Benchmarking, BPR, Collaborative Innovation, Consumer Ethnography, Core Competencies, Corporate Blogs, CRM, Customer Segmentation, Growth Strategy Tools, Knowledge Management, Lean Operations, Loyalty ...
Voir la video Et grand merci au toujours stimulant forum de l'Oulipo , qui m'a fait découvrir ce bijou...
Among existing yottabytes of data , we will use, during our life, billions of information ( data becomes information when it correspond to some conscious or unconscious project or objective I have...), but how much tacit or explicit knowledge (information embodied after really using it, "learning by doing"...)? I always was reluctant to the next word, wisdom , the word appearing a bit too spiritual to me. But competency is a good one. In my opinion, competency emerges when ...
Not impressed by high tech evolution? Just read 2007 ten emerging technologies . And what's new just now? about Computing - Super lenses and chips, to see nanometers... - Intel going on... about Communication - Optical fibers ... and the web - IBM going on... - and all the mobile stuff, changing potentially your life... about Storage - Nanotubes again... - and flash memory on your desktop about Man/Machine interfaces - what about ultramobiles ...
Governing IT (look at this PWC perfect report ) is (and that is not new!) key for company performance: Strategic alignment is key , but clearly a subtle adaptive one, not too mechanistic... What are CEO feelings on that? Some new innovative ideas on this old alignment topic, like this definition of IT organizations as fitting into one of three categories, which called Solid Utility, Trusted Supplier, and Partner Player. McKinsey emphasizes on some conditions of success... All that ...
SOA story is a nice one! It was at the top of CIO challenges for 2007, and reemphasised in recent C eBit, ... To consider the best way to develop, maintain application is to design them as independant LEGO buiding blocks, exchanging services is a nice creative dream. But... picture, in large companies, of application portfolio shows the real mess: heterogeneous applications, different programming language, weight of history, big amount of usable application, only a small part being used ...
This Web2 emphasis is a bit enervating for some people (like me). Any rational? This big Web2 bag contains a lot of concepts and techniques, sometimes rather new (Ajax, long tail, ..), sometimes rather old (social networks, blogging, forums, ...). Some of those concepts where historically peripheral, borderline, even sometimes freakish, and are now becoming, just because technology is more mature, full mainstream. - a first immediate consequence is irruption of merchants, vendors, consultants ...
About Moore's law, Intel still invest strongly in 45 nanometers technology in competition with AMD, IBM, ... For the future, why not quantum computers ? May be not ready ! ..and atom thin graphite to build transistors... And this fantastic technology, RFID, with all its opportunities and risks, now at 50 micrometer size ! Man/machines interface: Suppressing the mouse , eye movement driven computer? It's an old dream. I already tried that in an IBM research lab years ago. A ...
- So many management concepts! Smoking or non smoking management concepts? I really like this one ! Remind me an old chart about management concepts life cycle... - A good manager has surely to be stress tolerant , have to feed his curiosity , ... In daily life, some nice vizualization tools can help him (look at the demos...) Ignorance is his basic state. Can Artificial intelligence , this prothesis to natural ignorance help him? ( "Before we work on artificial intelligence why ...
- Just found a good new book about KM and performance manager. It examines the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions and suggestions for 42 decisions areas, taking into account the need to understand your data, but also plan and monitor performance. - One way to start KM in an organization is to consider it as a service - KM often needs technology, what do you do in front of that kind of people (good funny story about ...
BPM: Processus, toujours un thème central. Ce séminaire a lieu en Europe pendant tout 2007. Some very nice useful charts , from Gartner, about best of BPM, and a lot of additional charts . Among these, this one about BPM and SOA relation, or another one ... but... what about HOP (Human and Organizational Performance)? Must human problems be treated before technological and organizational problems? Old debate. Is corporate performance depending from good management of management ...
So many publications mentionning this topic. Does that mean that - nobody understand anything? - there are some unsolved problems in the concept and its application? - it is now just a way for vendors (consultants, gurus, SOA solutions providers, scorecard specialists ) to market - Organizations, in spite of the "official speech", are very very far from that? One of the permanent criticism is that too much governance can kill agility, can kill innovation and adaptation. It is sure ...
I like this one: MIT's Michael Schrage explains why getting highly relevant results from a search can actually inhibit the iterative process by which we discover and learn. Idea we have about relevance of our search evolves while searching. Creativity can come from that iterative process too: I search something, I am partially dissatisfied of the result, that makes me refocus on new idea about my search, I search again, .... So: If you find what you search immediatly, you stop your brain ! ...
What's next after still well living silicium ( yes , 45 nanometers... ) to go-on on Moore's law? Photonic computer is one of the opportunities. Telephone still moving: Ultramobile is the keyword. McKinsey (just register!) shows an interesting study about value of mobile phones... Man/machine interface nice evolutions: - Flexible plastics, flexible screens, even flexible RFIDs . Why not become invisible, with flexible screen as clothing and a camera behind you, ...
Ultimate and permanent challenge for people, companies, societies is to innovate (to survive?) This week, a lot of point of view on this topic, re-emphasizing some basic evident ideas: First, innovation in IT is often nowadays coming from "transgressive renegades" . Continuous flow of new emerging technologies allows permanently unsatisfied end-user to invent their way. A good IT department must consider/absorb these innovations, considered as valid prototypes, and to transform ...
Derniers commentaires