If you’ve got the feeling that something is afoot out there in your marketplace, but haven’t quite been able to put words to it yet, I highly recommend carving our 30 minutes to listen to John Hagel’s keynote (mp4 video) at the recent FastForward conference. I’ve been reading Hagel and John Seely Brown’s The Only […]
Strategy
Are You Stagnant? (And Does It Matter?)
Presidential campaigns (see previous posting) always make for interesting and intense case studies in organizational strategy. After all, they are essentially start-up businesses that must figure out very quickly, in a very competitive environment, how to achieve much higher adoption rates for their “product” (the candidate) than most businesses ever have to achieve. They have […]
Experiment (But Strategically)
“Trying stuff is cheaper than deciding whether to try it.” As Stephen Downes noted, this showed up quite a few places yesterday, though I came across it first on Kottke.org. Kottke and others quote from a LinuxWorld posting that suggests knowing when to kill something—in this case, GooglePages—can be as important as trying it in […]
The Capacity Continuum
The intense scrutiny by the nonprofit sector of topics like effectiveness, capacity, and learning leads naturally to the question of where and how, concretely, these things occur. The answers are important because they suggest where capacity builders should focus their efforts. But, as nearly every capacity builder and every organization knows, the answers can also […]
The Balanced Scorecard: A Framework for Learning
A couple of years back, feeling that performance at a learning technology company I was running at the time was declining, I brought in a firm call SUMMIT Performance Systems to help us take a look at our strategy and general operations. SUMMIT introduced us to the Balanced Scorecard approach to formulating, implementing, and measuring […]