Curated articles from various sources.
ByTED
Assistant professor and founding director of the Media Innovation program, Jeff Howe, and early-stage investor in technology companies including Twitter, Flickr and Kickstarter, Joichi “Joi” in a combined effort for TED, contends that the best way to prepare for a future of unknown complexity might be to build on the strength of our differences. This is to…
McKinsey & Company means that in order for companies to be more agile & effective, quicker to react, deliver great customer experiences, take advantage of new technologies to cut costs, improve quality and transparency, and build value – they need to commit to a next-generation operating model. This operating model is a new way of running the organization…
Mckinsey & Company explores the pros – and now- the previously overlooked cons of organizational transparency within the business world. When thinking of buyers and sellers rating each other on eBay, Airbnb, and Uber – transparency (sharing information freely) in the business world is generally considered a good thing insofar as accelerating information gathering and helping along…
It is contended that giant internet firms such as Google and Facebook like to view their rapid rise as the product of their founders’ brilliance. Others argue that their success is more a result of lucky timing and network effects – the economic forces that tend to make bigger firms even bigger. But often forgotten,…
ByHBR.org
Intensive care physician Peter Pronovost and chief engineers Alan Ravitz and Conrad Grant, contrasts the way we build hospitals to the approcah taken by an aircraft manufacturer upon deciding to create a new model. Where the former typically happens in a piecemeal, patchwork approach, the latter doesn’t ask pilots and crew to identify the best cabin, wings, jet engines, and other parts, to…
ByTED
In this technologically oriented TED talk, digital visionary Kevin Kelly compares technology to the actual path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley – which is unpredictable, but of which the general direction is inevitable. Over the next 20 years, he says, our penchant for making things smarter and smarter will have a profound…
