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Organizational blindness
In 1970, the scientific journal Nature published a small but important article by Colin Blakemore and Grahame F. Cooper, two neurophysiologists from the University of Cambridge. The article, titled Development of the Brain depends on the Visual Environment, described the … Continue reading
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Tagged business design, complexity, culture, governance, networks, paradigm, wirearchy
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Return of Venn – Looking at the Future of Business
My last post sparked a few amazing comments. Looking back to the little exercise I attempted – representing organizational structure as Venn diagrams – I realize that my view was a bit enterprise-centric. “Customer”, as a concept, is quite reductive … Continue reading
Venn’s Adventures in the Future of Work
A few weeks ago, I was invited to speak at BPM Conference Portugal by Alberto Manuel, its chairman and delightful host. My talk focused on the inability for business processes to adequately address real world problems, either from a knowledge … Continue reading
The Broken Business Model of Business
Every day, we can see new evidences that our society is broken. More than ever, we live on the edge of an era, without knowing if the present unstable equilibrium will collapse into a dystopian future or lead us to … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, business design, business models, culture, economy, enterprise 20, governance, social business, thin organization
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The tainted narrative of the workplace
Technology is influencing more than the way we work, it also deeply changes the notion of workplace. As IBM wrote in 2011 in its The new workplace: are you ready? white paper: “Today’s workplace is a virtual and/or physical environment, characterized by … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, business design, culture, enterprise 20, governance, IBM, Jive, management, narrative, strategy, workplace
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