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18 Jul 09

The Big Shift: Measuring the Forces of Change

To help managers in this decidedly challenging time, we present a framework for understanding three waves of transformation in the competitive landscape: foundations for major change; flows of resources, such as knowledge, that allow firms to enhance productivity; and the impacts of the foundations and flows on companies and the economy. Combined, those factors reflect what we call the Big Shift in the global business environment.

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  • The first, foundational wave in the Big Shift consists of the extraordinary changes in digital infrastructure that enable vastly greater productivity, transparency, and connectivity. Consider how companies can use digital technology to create ecosystems of diverse, far-flung users, designers, and suppliers in which product and process innovations fuel performance gains without introducing too much complexity.
  • The second wave involves the increasing movement of knowledge, talent, and capital. Knowledge flows—which occur in any social, fluid environment where learning and collaboration can take place—are quickly becoming one of the most crucial sources of value creation.
18 Apr 09

The philosophy of the meta-currency project

And we call those systems currencies, i.e. trade currencies, reputation currencies, loyalty currencies, performance metric currencies, etc. In each case the flows they interact with, or the ways they interact with flows may be in different realms of social manifestation, just as sound, light and water waves all have wave properties in different realms of physical manifestation. But what we have found, is that once we recognize this common pattern, we experience a paradigm shift: we change our focus from the information tokens, to the flows themselves. We begin to actually be able to see these flows, and see how the flows are what create wealth, and how the information tokens just help us interact with the flows.

Thus, the goal of the meta-currency project is to create a new expressive capacity, a “flow mechanics” that amplifies our ability to see and shape the flows that underlie healthy social systems. This is much like how “wave mechanics” is an expressive capacity that gave us amplifies our ability to build physical systems.

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22 Aug 08

Mapping Information Flows: A Practical Guide | Information Management Journal | Find Articles at BNET

Information mapping based on an organization's goals and objectives can help shift the information professional's natural bottom-up point of view to a top-down, strategic perspective and increase his or her perceived value
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3. It helps to focus information services on the highest potential opportunities. This last benefit can make the value of the information center even more obvious. Orna tells us that libraries or information centers are undergoing an unexpected development. They are changing from "... a store of information to a source of knowledge and innovation ... a business intelligence service converting information to intelligence by means of expert filtering, editing, archiving, and researching." In order to accomplish this transformation, the information professional uses skills and capabilities uniquely suited to the task. According to the Information Advisor, among these skills are the understanding of the organization as a whole and how the parts work together; the ability to comprehend and elaborate on information needs; the ability to identify inefficient or improper uses of information; and the ability to improve the value of the information by evaluating, filtering, abstracting, and providing a broader organizational and/or industry context.

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Architecture Organisationnelle: Petite Réflexion Prospective sur l’Entreprise de Demain

Le fait que le traitement et le transfert de l'information deviennent progressivement la majorité du travail de la majorité des entreprises moderne conduira nécessairement à s'affranchir du « chaos » actuel en termes d'utilisation des différents outils. Le chaos vient d'une part du fait que nous utilisons le même outil et le même canal pour gérer des flux très différents. Ceci nous conduit à des situations d'embouteillage, où des flux de basse priorité obstruent les canaux (un sujet déjà abordé). D'autre part, l'utilisation des différents outils est personnelle, et chacun utilise ses propres règles, ce qui conduit à des incompréhensions et de l'inefficacité. Ce sujet est d'autant plus important que les canaux électroniques se multiplient, et est donc aggravé par l'apparition des outils « Web 2.0 ». Mon intuition est que le volume et l'importance croissante des communications vont conduire à l'émergence d'un « ordre », au moins selon les 3 axes suivants :

* La séparation du signal et du contenu. Elle permet d'utiliser les canaux réactifs (faible latence) pour propager le contrôle, et utiliser les outils collaboratifs pour gérer le contenu (avec des gains évidents en termes de partage, de sécurité, de sauvegarde, …). Ce point est déjà compris et noté par les spécialistes de l'entreprise 2.0 (voir les articles de Fred Cavazza).
* Séparer les flux critiques des non-critiques, les flux liés aux processus métiers des flux informels. Il faut utiliser l'abondance des outils pour que chacun soit utilisé à bon escient, et de la même façon par tous (bien sûr). Cela passe par la rationalisation et l'édiction de règles collectives (cf. le chapitre 5).
* Une gestion plus rigoureuse du temps. Le temps est clairement devenu la ressource critique dans les entreprises. Il ne sert à rien d'avoir le téléphone ou l'email d'une personne si vous n'avez pas son attention. La multiplication des flux est illusoire, et les outils modernes offrent des « tuyaux bouchés ». Les outils de pilotages des flux critiques liés aux proce

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