![]() The interconnectness of innovations means that you have to be looking outside your industry, your discipline and yourself, in order to see the connections. Too many learning companies are still structured around the industrial command and control model. Not only are creative people necessary, but they need a creative environment. If innovation drives technology, then your competitive advantage is the ideas you can generate, not your technology, with its ever shortening half-life. Learning companies have to fill a real need – and there are lots of learning needs just listen to the customers. Neither will products that are developed because they have new features. Build it and they will come, will not work. Since need drives innovation, a solid understanding of customers is essential. Using Dave Pollard’s principles, what could the industry infer? Having just completed an analysis of the learning industry in New Brunswick, I had the opportunity to reflect on global issues relating to the industry and make suggestions on how the industry could better position itself. Innovation Requires Discipline & Patience Posted - filed under Learning, Technology, Work.ĭave Pollard in A Prescription for Business Innovation Part 1 cites six basic principles of the innovation process: Update Thursday Night: Amidst the increasing hype and noise, there is another word of caution from Mark Federman. So how much extra market leverage will all of this additional data on user behaviour give Amazon? I haven’t used it yet, but probably will. Third, that bloggers could be used by vendors to sell their wares so bloggers beware.Ī9 beta seems to be an innovation on the Google Tool Bar that lets you do all kinds of specialised searches and files those searches for your own knowledge management system. Second that some folks in advertising agencies may soon be looking for new jobs. What could this mean? First, that Amazon believes that the blogosphere is a viable marketing and communications channel. My first notice came from Jay Cross but this post from Common Craft says that Amazon decided to release the news through a blogger, instead of the mainstream media. ![]() I wasn’t going to comment on the latest release of Amazon’s A9 because I thought that it would be in all the media outlets before lunch, but the way the news was released is interesting. It’s great to see this use of social networking software in our region’s universities. Worth the read, and worth some reflection. Great technological shifts of the past, such as the advent of speech, fire, writing, and the printing press, can help us to understand our current transformation. Legal, ethical, and social institutions are lagging far behind our technological evolution. Much of the existing complex has been undermined and is slowing crumbling around us. We are hurtling through an era of unprecedented change – a transformation of unimaginable scale and proportion. Networking offers an opportunity to reclaim our real voices and restore real human relationships. Web-like Internetworking provides us with a new freedom, and allows us to grow faster than we ever could when we were fettered by the hierarchical classification systems into which we bound ourselves. Posted - filed under Learning, Technology.įrom the University of Prince Edward Island, Mark Hemphill’s end of course notes from “Networking, Knowledge & the Digital Age”, discussing eBusiness, enterprise software and the social and commercial forces of the Internet. “It is difficult to overstate the significance of the Internet …” Via Stephen Downes, who makes this pertinent point in yesterday’s OLDaily – “… if democracy is actually the best form of governance, why don’t we use it in our institutions?” I have not read Malone’s book yet, but it is now high on my to-do list. Malone envisages four potential organizational models: According to the author, Malone expects that pervasive information technology will force businesses into becoming more democratic. More on Tom Malone’s new book “The Future of Work”, this time from Fortune Magazine. Posted - filed under Democracy, Technology, Work.
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