Sustainability might not be sexy, but life depends on it
I attended the Hannover Messe 2019 for the first time, courtesy of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. It’s not as big as CeBIT was, but it is still a huge conference with over 20 halls of exhibitors, covering everything from Industry 4.0, integrated automation, the digital factory, industrial supply, research & technology to the digital workplace. HPE are […]
SMILE London Workshops 2016 – Enterprise Social Networks and more
Back on 12 May, Marc Wright of Simply Communicate kindly invited us to join in the latest version of his Social Media Inside the Large Enterprise London Workshops. The new format has 4 time slots each with 3 choices of workshop, so you could attend 4 out of 12. They covered a varied set of […]
Of organizational Operating Systems, Frameworks and Flows
The Paris edition of the Enterprise Digital Summit is coming together for next month. Bjoern posted recently on the conference’s key themes with some great links to ideas around platforms, the elastic enterprise and machine learning, but he also talks about the company’s operating model and operating system, and that triggered some thoughts around terminology […]
“Are you saying the map’s wrong?” – “Oh dear, yes!” – an example of Liminal Thinking
Earlier this week I met with Dave Gray and he gave me an advance copy of his new book, and then I went to his talk at Postshift on Wednesday night. He talked Liminal Thinking, so what is that? You might know that I am a huge fan of The West Wing (and Aaron Sorkin’s […]
Seven Signs of Corporate Innovation Culture
Culture defines every company regardless of whether it is an early stage startup or a global enterprise. It influences behavior, and for this reason, culture is a very important issue for corporate innovation. Many corporate innovation initiatives failed because the corporations driving them lacked innovation culture or innovation DNA. Based on my experience from the startups […]
8 Strategic Building Blocks to enable Digital Transformation
This is the blog post version of my lightning talk at this year’s Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT Paris. My script for 43 slides in 10 minutes, PechaKucha style, and I finished ahead of time! My purpose was to do three things: Spend five minutes giving the Agile Elephant view of the current complex and disruptive digital […]
Failure Fridays
Someone very close to me is about to begin a very cool new gig. Its a role that most would love and in fact be envious of (I sure am – and will be blogging about it soon!). So this…
Oracle’s Influencer Relations: Mom Are We There Yet?
A fellow Enterprise Irregular posed this question to the EI’s relative to the maturity of the industry and the acceptance of bloggers @ Oracle Open World:Especially after the Workday session where 20 of us from small and large firms all…
Hubris
From Wikipedia: Hubris: extreme haughtiness or arrogance. Hubris often indicates being out of touch with reality and overestimating one’s own competence or capabilities, especially for people in positions of power. When I woke up this morning the word hubris popped into my mind (I also had the weirdest dream about overcoming hurdles but that’s for […]
A Memo regarding Corporate Social Media policies
From: @TheManagementTeam To: @TheEmployees Subject: Corporate Social Media Policies
It has come to management’s attention (we own your PCs, the network and the log files, remember?) that our employees are spending an increasingly large amount of time on Social Networks – and that we may have even […]
A Memo regarding Corporate Social Media policies is a post from: The SiliconANGLE
