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- PC Forum: Moving from friction-free to productive friction
- PC Forum: Moving from friction-free to productive frictionBrown and Hagal on "productive friction"The principles and practices used by Toyota Motor have been described and thrashed around for at least two decades in business books and journals. Mr. Brown and Mr. Hagel appear to have taken that long to repackage...
- Tags: productive friction, friction
- Discussion threads 2005-04-12
- PC Forum: Moving from friction-free to productive friction
- Day three of PC Forum started with a discussion with John Seely Brown and John Hagel about productive friction, which is the subject of their forthcoming book The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends On Productive Friction and Dynamic Specialization.Seely Brown described differences between the way Toyota and Detroit car...
- Tags: productive friction, friction
- Blog posts 2005-03-22
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- The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda
- Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Cisco CTO's 5 Predictions for the Future of Collaboration
- Padmasree Warrior is, to quote her biography on their company blog "Cisco Systems’ Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, she is responsible for helping drive the company’s technological innovations and strategy, and works closely with its senior executive team and board of directors to align these efforts with Cisco’s corporate goals....
- Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Cisco Systems Inc., Padmasree Warrior, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-04-25
- Engineers are from Mars, Marketers are from Venus
- If you're familiar with the relationship book 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus' and work with technology, you may have noticed the fundamental differences in the way people think about software. In companies of all sizes, the challenges of working to keep existing...
- Tags: Line Of Business, Information Technology, Friction, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Letters to the President
- Letters to the PresidentHammer & SickleNuff said....Because before googleno one ever submitted a written paper for review and markup. All those red marks covering my research papers in high school must have been hallucinations.RE: Letters to the PresidentLet's clarify here. This process improves TEAMWORK not CREATIVITY. When you...
- Tags: NOW IT
- Discussion threads 2009-01-23
- 'Leading with Kindness'
- There is an interesting book and associated US public television series I'm intrigued by entitled 'Leading with Kindness: How good people consistently get better results' The two authors are William F. Baker, Ph.D., (Chief Executive Officer of Educational Broadcasting Corp...
- Tags: Team, Doll, Gore, Team Management, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- HTC Touch Pro (Sprint)
- Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Keyboards, Operating systems, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch, HTC Touch Pro, Touch Pro, smart phone, Sprint Communications
- Product reviews 2008-11-05
- Google App Engine creation process live on Twitter
- I'm watching Dion Hinchcliffe and a small group of other observers and developers create a Google App Engine GAE application live via Twitter. We're on the cutting edge of using social media and near-real time collaboration tools free to learn and use GAE for free, and then...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Twitter, App, Google Accounts, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-12
- Vista is taking body blows
- I've been on a bit of a blog and RSS hiatus the past couple of days and have been working my way through tales of destruction and distress (the 365 outage, not Lindsay Lohan's latest episode), news, and views. In my reading, there's a recurring theme that beats louder all...
- Tags: Microsoft, Productivity, Software, Uncategorized, Vista, Windows
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- What's next after Web 2.0?
- Nick Carr is welcome to stake a claim for the trademarks on Web 3.0, but I can cite prior art. Judging by the reaction of the blogosphere over the past 24 hours, theres not much value in the term anyway. People are feeling deflated enough about Web 2.0 and have...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- Do you want Windows XP on that Mac?
- Do you want Windows XP on that Mac?Why, Apple performance is questionable at best...Check out the comparative speed test results over at [url=http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/cpu2006.html]The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation SPEC website[/url]. Check out the CPU2006 results and see where Apple's dual core entry is.Note: SPEC is a non-profit corporation, and Apple supplied...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-10
- Panasonic's AG-HVX200K video camera enables a new age of video production
- When, as a part of ZDNet’s effort to turn its journalists into independent video producers as well, the folks in our broadband group sent me a Panasonic AG-HVX200K to play around with, I had no idea how much the camera they were sending me would prove to be a game...
- Tags: camera, video
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Panasonic's AG-HVX200K video camera enables a new age of video production
- When, as a part of ZDNet’s effort to turn its journalists into independent video producers as well, the folks in our broadband group sent me a Panasonic AG-HVX200K to play around with, I had no idea how much the camera they were sending me would prove to be a game...
- Tags: video, camera, Personal Technology, Entertainment, General
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- So, Dell's not a Wintel lapdog? It should probably thank AMD
- According to a report by News.com's Stephen Shankland, Dell wants the world to believe that it's not the Wintel sycophant that it used to be (or, at least that other OEMs could be accused of being). Wrote Shankland:[Dell's chief technology officer Kevin Kettler] outlined several areas where Dell has...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Intel Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-04-12
- The key to lowering transaction costs
- During a panel discussion about distributed business at SuperNova 2005, Philip Evans of the Boston Consulting Group BCG and author of "Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy," offered up some basic principles for business success, which he defined primarily as lowering transaction costs. He defines...
- Tags: Evans
- Blog posts 2005-06-22
- Dynamic specialization
- Cheap, off-shore outsourcing isn't the bogeyman it's made out to be. In fact, outsourcing and offshoring are nothing new. In the past, we've always referred to these trends -- in economic terms -- as specialization. In their new book The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends on Productive Friction...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2005-05-04
- Can friction spur innovation?
- Business thinkers call for reinvention of IT strategyAt PC Forum in Scottsdale, Ariz., scientist John Seely Brown and business strategist John Hagel talk to technology visionary Esther Dyson about "productive friction" and how it can harnessed to create value in IT.
- Tags: Strategy, friction
- Videos 2005-04-11
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