In my preparations to deliver the closing keynote at Intel’s Business API event (link) last week, I considered how I could entwine my theme of the future of work/humanity with that of the event. Despite the seemingly ‘under the bonnet’ nature of application programming interfaces (APIs) I realised that this was a theme that is […]
According to Harvard Business Review business and society are careering towards hyperspecialization. This is Adam Smith’s ‘division of labour’ taken to the extreme. I can see that as a possible evolution in work design, but it would need wondrous task design and impeccable task management. If it is successful then much of your organisation’s head […]
‘The e-Skills Manifesto: A Call to Arms’ was launched on the 30th June 2010 at the European Business Summit in Brussels. It has contributions from a number of high profile people in politics, industry, academe and beyond. Coincidentally a Gala dinner was held that evening and was attended by the Crown Prince of Belgium and […]
Are you serious? Do you really need to sack your best people? Good posting from marketing guru Seth Godin (click here). His most recent piece makes reference to the technical wizard found in many organisations who uses his or her (usually his) knowledge / technical expertise in a manipulative manner. Perhaps not dissimilar to the […]