What a year! 2009
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”.
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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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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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"Ondernemen in Vlaanderen" and educational systems
Thursday, October 15th, 2009I 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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