http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog My own private online moleskine Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:42:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 2006-2009 gatw73vb42@robertolofaro.com (Aleph123) gatw73vb42@robertolofaro.com (Aleph123) thinking about impacts 1440 http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/cworg_boxes_bigger.jpg http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog 144 144 Getting around the world My own private online moleskine media, politics, technology,impact Aleph123 Aleph123 gatw73vb42@robertolofaro.com no no http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/11/13/the-future-of-it-0404-itinerary/ http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/11/13/the-future-of-it-0404-itinerary/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:00:01 +0000 AGB http://localhost/wordpresssites/blog/?p=1072 http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/11/13/the-future-of-it-0404-itinerary/feed/ 0 http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/11/11/the-future-of-it-0304-starting/ http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/11/11/the-future-of-it-0304-starting/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:00:33 +0000 AGB http://localhost/wordpresssites/blog/?p=1069 http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/11/11/the-future-of-it-0304-starting/feed/ 0 http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/11/09/the-future-of-it-0204-destination/ http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/11/09/the-future-of-it-0204-destination/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:00:24 +0000 AGB http://localhost/wordpresssites/blog/?p=1066 http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/11/09/the-future-of-it-0204-destination/feed/ 0 http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/11/05/the-future-of-it-0104-introduction/ http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/11/05/the-future-of-it-0104-introduction/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:33:54 +0000 AGB http://localhost/wordpresssites/blog/?p=1056 http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/11/05/the-future-of-it-0104-introduction/feed/ 0 http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/11/01/agb2009-bridges/ http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/11/01/agb2009-bridges/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:26:40 +0000 AGB http://localhost/wordpresssites/blog/?p=1046 the presentation) AGB2009: BRIDGES

BACKGROUND

I know what some of the locals would say. But, on an overall "helicopter view", it is irrelevant.

ABSTRACT

Mixing change in politics and business is always a risky affair- and I am not referring to the tulip craze. Just read the enclosed bibliography. I might be wrong- but changing a culture requires a long-term view, that sometimes requires more real-politik and less short-term results.]]> http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/11/01/agb2009-bridges/feed/ 0 http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/10/24/agb2009-quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes/ http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/10/24/agb2009-quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:48:43 +0000 AGB http://localhost/wordpresssites/blog/?p=1021 the presentation) AGB2009: QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES

BACKGROUND

Look around: you will see an increasing role in our complex society for various forms of "oversight", "audit", "watchdog", "rating" entities.

ABSTRACT

The first issue is certainly related to authority and initiation. If, by consensus, established authorities set up a watchdog, the line of authority is clearly inherited from the source, and the initiation contains also the framework for the potential evolution (or dissolution) of the new watchdog. But what about some of the pre- and post-Internet self-appointed watchdogs?]]> http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/10/24/agb2009-quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes/feed/ 0 http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/10/22/agb2009-the-future-of-it/ http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/10/22/agb2009-the-future-of-it/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:00:28 +0000 roberto.lofaro http://localhost/wordpresssites/blog/?p=1017 the presentation) AGB2009: THE FUTURE OF IT

BACKGROUND

It has been a long time since IBM supposedly said that few computers would be enough to forever satisfy all the computing needs of humanity. Do not worry: this is not a technical article.

ABSTRACT

My suggestion? Well, I still hold an Italian passport. Therefore, I suggested an idea inspired by another industry: segmenting the market by building standardized elements, and then offering different levels of "tailoring", but with an option to then re-insert, after sometime, the custom-designed services into the basic portfolio. But, in my view, the issue is becoming even more nuanced. And more complex. And still actual.]]> http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/10/22/agb2009-the-future-of-it/feed/ 0 http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/10/19/agb2009-technological-disintermediation/ http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/10/19/agb2009-technological-disintermediation/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:00:37 +0000 GettingAroundTheWorld.Net http://localhost/wordpresssites/blog/?p=996 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".

]]> http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/10/19/agb2009-technological-disintermediation/feed/ 0 http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/10/16/agb2009-a-creative-workplace/ http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/10/16/agb2009-a-creative-workplace/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:00:13 +0000 GettingAroundTheWorld.Net http://localhost/wordpresssites/blog/?p=989 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.

]]> http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/10/16/agb2009-a-creative-workplace/feed/ 0 http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/10/08/agb2009-evolving-alliances/ http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/10/08/agb2009-evolving-alliances/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:00:46 +0000 AGB http://localhost/wordpresssites/blog/?p=934 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.]]> http://www.robertolofaro.com/blog/2009/10/08/agb2009-evolving-alliances/feed/ 0