insight
“Someone trying to convince me today that a small company (< 50 people) is going to go out to land and successfully service million dollar enterprise software deals, would have a really hard time. I don’t buy it anymore." - Don’t try and punch too far above your weight category
Web of Change is back on
WebofChange is back on this year. September 19-23rd on Cortes Island, BC.
“Web of Change is an annual gathering connecting senior leaders working at the convergence of online strategy, technology, and social change. Held every fall at Hollyhock Centre on Cortes Island, British Columbia, Web of Change offers an exceptional environment for learning, engagement, and reflection.
If your work finds you leveraging technology as a tool for social change and transformation, then you belong at Web of Change.”
With NorthernVoice and WebofChange, BC leads Canada comfortably in the interestingness category of conferences.
wow
“Initially it seemed like Enterprise 2.0 packages would unseat IT Departments. I have been a big proponent of the “dump your IT†school of thinking. IT gets in the way, they are cranky and always turning up their nose… right?” - Read the rest on FASTForwardBlog »
aiderss
“If you are like me, your blog aggregator is getting a little out of hand. Once you start climbing over 150 feeds, and well in to the 200s, you are starting to get overloaded. I have, on a few occasions, deleted all the feeds from my feedreader and have started from scratch.” - Read the Full Post on StartupNorth »
Go get em’
Rannie became a free agent today. He blogs at Photojunkie and is one of the nicest guys I have gotten to know in Toronto in the last year.
Can’t wait to see what’s next. You make be proud bud!
“As the saying goes, a thing is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. But as the founder of Zantaz greviousy discovered July 3, this adage doesn’t always apply to a startup. When multiple layers of professional financings are in place, sometimes a company is worth merely the price for which one group of investors is willing to sell it.” - Wow: 7 Lessons from Zantaz firesale, More here
Oh wow, I really wish I could be at this conference.
“In parallel, there are rumors of bitter rivalry and that a tribal leader absconded with $75 m in US money given to fund militia development.“. Holy shit., perhaps this guy will be moving in to Sierra Towers in a few weeks.
To survive, Organizations must flatten
We Westerners are generally very proud of our current business practices. We institutionalize them in processes, and we praise them in business schools for their tenacity and efficient use of capital.
Evidence is mounting however, that our drive toward mass production, mass consumption and expansion are quickly coming under fire from enviromental factors and some of the early results of globalization efforts among others.
Do modern organizations do the most effcient job of creating value?
This is all a touchy subject for professors, CEOs and investors, so I do tread carefully.
The modern organizational chart is a sort of analogue for many of the issues organizations are coming up against. Let’s quickly explore a few:
Getting a Message out
“viral marketing”, “attention”, and concepts like “peer to peer marketing” are great examples of new concepts being retrofitted on to old ideas.
It is time to question our assumptions again.
- * Do industrial models work for a new network-based economy that is emerging (the same one that has completely changed the lives of your children already)?
- * Do capital markets really drive the most efficiency possible, or do they reward the most heavily structured effciency?
- * Has the current market-driven model ignored it’s most significant inputs and outputs (enviromental, psychological, personal)?
- * Has the Corporation had too many restrictions placed on it by the market?
- * Has the significance of actual agency costs been hidden from view?
