A full month? October, 2009
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
This short article (1000 words) has just a purpose: try to see beyond broadband.
It is quite interesting to read every few days articles repeating yesterday’s news, trying to foster a change to generate the news of tomorrow.
What I am referring to? Well, considering the title… Finland’s choice to have universal broadband access by 2015.
Tags: broadband, credibility, education, finland, innovation, news, nokia, pull, push, skype
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
This part of the AGB2009 series (see the presentation)
AGB2009: technological disintermediation
BACKGROUND
Technology and tecnological innovation are not anymore what they used to be.
ABSTRACT
Most of the publications on the “new” or “soft” economy talk only about the positive side-effects of this “crowdsourcing” of innovation, but..
In the past, user-generated innovations required skills, or money, or both, e.g. in “tuning” the engine of you car.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
For this article, not really a bibliography, but a “mini-library”.
Tags: AGB2009, crowdsourcing, disintermediation, framework, innovation, intellectual, jurisdiction, property, regulatory, rights, technology
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
This part of the AGB2009 series (see the presentation)
AGB2009: a creative workplace
BACKGROUND
Over the last few decades, creativity, or its development, became an industry in itself.
ABSTRACT
I have a systemic (or “holistic”, if you prefer) approach to change: no initiative lives in a vacuum, and is constrained by time and environment.
The starting point has therefore often to be the end: in our case, why do you want to introduce creativity in the workplace.
Tags: AGB2009, bono, brainstorming, creative, creativity, de, innovation, motivational, systemic, workplace
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
I attended today a conference in Gent, “Ondernemen in Vlaanderen”
Earlier today I twittered: “In Dutch now, but why the talks about talent come always to the same diagnosis?”.
This short article (800 words) is to share some considerations from few conferences that I followed today.
Tags: educational, financing, flanders, human, innovation, ondernemen, resources, startup, system, talent, vlaanderen
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
Beyond Microfinancing
If you pick up any newspaper or magazine covering economic issues, every month you will find articles about microfinancing.
The idea of microfinancing expand globalization benefits available to developing countries, by changing the way funding is accessible.
Figures do not lie. And the picture that is projected, despite the 2006 Nobel peace prize to the Grameen Bank founder, is closer to the old way of managing financial relationships with developing countries, creating what was described already in 1990 in a Museum in Germany as the “spiral of debt”.
The idea? Merging microfinancing and charity to deliver self-sustaining development.
(2000 words)
Tags: acumen, banking, dev2009, development, financing, google, grameen, micro, microsoft, nobel, town, village, wolfram
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A practical impossibility
Saturday, October 31st, 2009If you follow my blog, you know that, beside the rumors, I surrendered to the idea that, without Dutch, I would never be able to do here what I did since 1990 (project and change management).
But this is not the practical impossibility I am referring to in the title.
On my personal Facebook profile, I started a small count-down, as since I passed an A2 exam in Dutch in June 2009, I was looking for any position that could use as much as possible of my experience and skills (or add new ones, if needed), while completing my language skills (local and not).
The tool? Studying more formally for the exam was a first step- you can get individual language training (up to 60 hours) if you get at least A2.
This article is 750 words, but divided in sections (150 words each; excluding the index).
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