A full month? October, 2009
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
This part of the AGB2009 series (see the presentation)
AGB2009: evolving alliances
BACKGROUND
In business, alliances are often a matter more of opportunity than choice- the lesser of two evils.
ABSTRACT
The lifespan of an alliance? Have a quick look at the European alliances since the French revolution: few alliances lasted more than a generation.
Also if we are now used to see NATO as long-term relationship, slightly more than 60 years ago the first seeds of the alliance, during the African side of WWII, didn’t seem promising: a coordination nightmare.
The old joke, that NATO was created to keep the Germans in and the Russians out is but part of the reason why, in the end, the bloc was able to operate also beyond its original purposes.
Tags: AGB2009, alliance, evolution, innovation, nato, russia, soviet, union
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
This part of the AGB2009 series (see the presentation)
AGB2009: chain reaction
BACKGROUND
Did you ever notice how small innovations could generate unintended consequences?
ABSTRACT
The Internet is based on a main technology: the “router”, a piece of hardware that takes whatever you send on the Internet, split it in small “packets”, then everything is re-assembled at the final destination.
A recent article showed how one of the pioneers behind the original routers evolved the system. But, unintentionally or not, created a potentially contentious innovation.
Tags: AGB2009, chain, future, innovation, internet, quality, reaction, router, supply
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
When I announced the AGB2009 series, I planned a three-stages publication.
First, the abstract; then, a mind-map of my argument; finally, the summary, to be published here or elsewhere.
The fourth step, the full article, is for future publication as an e-book.
I published other maps, as minutes of public events, on September 24th (for the post-i2010) and [...]
Tags: AGB2009, aleph123, evolution, mind.map, publication, xmind.net
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
We are heading toward interesting times but, as usual, time is the main constraint.
It is a small world- and, moving online, borders become even more irrelevant.
There are some calls to stifle innovation by creating artificial online borders- but it is akin to re-instating border controls within Schengen: a temporary, cumbersome, and annoying palliative.
Tags: copyright, european, icann, innovation, intellectual, internet, itu, patent, property, rights, schengen, union, wipo
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
When I was living in UK, I remember an advertisement from Inland Revenue: taxes do not need to be taxing.
I think that every taxpayer would agree- actually, it is one of the reasons why whenever available, I try to use only electronic services.
So, how do you generate “value added taxes”?
No, not by increasing the VAT.
But finding creative ways to generate unexpected benefits.
Tags: added, collateral, creative, innovation, red, regulation, tape, tax, value, vat
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
This part of the AGB2009 series (see the presentation)
AGB2009: a balancing act
BACKGROUND
In my business experience from late 1980s, I almost never saw a coherent organization- it is more a work-in-progress.
ABSTRACT
Few decades ago, the European Parliament started being directly elected by citizens.
Accordingly, a sequence of treaties and agreement gradually strengthened the European institutions.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
This bibliography is slightly more “technical”- nothing is worse that an uninformed discussion on the future of political or business organizations
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