Learning Organizations: New ways of managing As companies grapple with the effects and opportunities of the Internet, social media and the smartphone, internal organizations are having to adapt and transform to accommodate new ways of communicating, new marketing methods and metrics and, in sum, new ways of managing. An organization’s ability to learn and to [...]
Digital Marketing by the Pols I made a presentation a couple of weeks ago at Hotel Napoleon, at the Conference entitled “Innovation Napoleon.” This conference, at which I have made a number of presentations, unites a heterogenous crowd around digital and innovation topics. Usually, there is anywhere up to 100 people in attendance. At this [...]
With all the news about the “close quarter” searching in the United States at airport security check points, one might be excused for thinking that airlines are getting a bit too close for comfort. Technology that spies on you, airport security that rubs you up… and, recently, airports closed in certain places around Europe due to weather and flash controller strikes.
Companies need to manage a fine line between collecting and protecting client data and implementing an effective and personalized Customer Relationship Management. Are airlines setting the path?
Companies that tout that they are “2.0″ or are ‘working hard’ to become enterprise 2.0 should beware. It is painfully obvious from the outside which companies have truly espoused the Internet 2.0 mentality. Furthermore, for the younger employees, saying you are there when you are clearly not is, at best, disheartening. At worst, it will keep the better talent away.
Digesting all the information at #LeWeb conference 2009, I wrote up what I found were the nine most interesting points in three separate posts (one, two, three).* Here are the consequences of these highlight points, as I see them, for business: Le Web 2009 Even if it’s tera-bly fast, it’s still a slow long tail. The digital world [...]
If you are like me, you will have said, “what on earth is an ontology?” Some form of scientific anthology? Well, I first came across the word “ontology” here, a post in which Professor Michael Wesch from Kansas University said/wrote that “Ontology is overrated.” While the term remains somewhat esoteric, I am ever more conscious [...]
Changes? What Changes? The ongoing worldwide economic crisis has created many obvious changes in behaviour, mostly focused on the effects of reduced funds. Whether it is the fear that makes a salaried person “tighten” his or her budget or someone who actually has less money coming in (for example, an entrepreneur struggling to make ends [...]
OBAMANIA & OTHER REFLECTIONS ON A SUNDAY MORNING The effect of the Obama victory overseas has been impressive. Much like the initial outpouring after September 11th, 2001, since November 5th, 2008, I have come across a newfound sense of support for the US from many different corners of the world, and the support is quite [...]
Web 2.0 and Sustainable Development – A Way of Life Via personal predilection and, as it happens, in my work, I am embedded in Web 2.0 functionality. When I take a helicopter view of web 2.0, especially as it applies to the corporate world, I associate the 2.0 mentality with the desire to interact, to [...]
