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27 Oct 09

Clive Thompson on Why Idling Mind Is Mother of Invention | Magazine

  • But what if we’re wrong about daydreaming? What if it’s crucial to solving problems in our personal lives and at work?


    Brain scientists are beginning to suspect that it is. And if they’re right, we might need to rethink the way we work — perhaps even develop tools that actually encourage mental drift.

  • A 2007 study by Michael Kane of the University of North Carolina found that our minds drift away from our tasks fully one-third of the time
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Change By Design - BusinessWeek

  • an underlying culture of innovation
  • a kind of internal think tank and includes anthropologists, industrial designers, and business strategists
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21 Sep 09

The Cloudy Future of Corporate IT : Andrew McAfee’s Blog

  • None of these claims is ridiculous. Each of them, in fact, has a lot of merit. But how many of them have lasting merit?
  • So based in part on what I’ve learned about electrification, here’s are my predictions about the move by businesses to cloud computing: It’s going to be a long transition, but an inexorable one.

Social media monitoring - more first step than end game :: Blog :: Headshift

  • If you look at a longer timeframe, you will see that our new era of
    social technology and social business is in fact more traditional, and
    continues very old, resilient models of network-based trade, business
    and socialisation. The difference is, we now have the technology and
    infrastructure (and arguably the globalised world) that enables us to
    scale up these old ways of working to support our modern life.
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    In short, consumers can and should be closely involved in the co-creation, testing, refinement and marketing of products and services - something that nearly always involves a conversation - and social tools are now available to support this.
  • I'm not quite ready to believe that human behaviour is something that can or should be turned into zeros and naughts to be categorised, visualised and measured.
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