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Category Archives: Collaborative Age
Crowdfunding… a local bakery!
Crowdfunding is a very trendy idea. And crowdfunding a local shop using your customer base as an investor base? Look at how a local bakery got funding through a ‘soft’ crowdfunding initiative linked to the products! That form of crowdfunding … Continue reading
What we can learn from complex systems to understand today’s world
In this follow-up post on the topic of complexity (read “How the Fourth Revolution brings us from the complicated to the complex” if you’ve missed it), we’ll examine in the world that surrounds us, how complex systems behave, to take … Continue reading
How the Fourth Revolution brings us from the complicated to the complex
Complex is not the same as complicated. Industrial Age got us used to the complicated mindset. Collaborative Age is the the era of complexity. And here lies a fundamental difference overlooked and misunderstood by so many people. This is the … Continue reading
How we finally realize that Human Capital is worth much more than Physical Capital
In the Fourth Revolution book we argue that traditional accounting is obsolete. On of the arguments is: it does not measure human capital. Some economists have tried it though at the national level and here is the result, in this … Continue reading
The Education Revolution: a crisis is coming already!
Education is a key institution that will necessarily be fundamentally changed by the Fourth Revolution. Traditional education was created during the Industrial Age to produce people for Manufacturing. Still, today, the education model is already changing, deeply and more quickly … Continue reading
Educate people, don’t train them anymore
“How many of you believe in training? You train animals but you educate people” I found this thought in one book by Alan Weiss, a consulting guru. I noted it because that’s quite deep actually, and it relates perfectly to … Continue reading
A day’s activity in the internet… what will we do of all this power?
Even after my research on the Fourth Revolution I am dazzled by the expansion of the internet. See this infographics by MBAonline.com: Created by: MBA Online Did you remember the time where there was no email, no internet, no wikipedia, … Continue reading
Fourth Revolution literacy: do you follow the basic rules for social networks?
The Fourth Revolution is a great opportunity. Social networks are fantastic communication and creation tools. As with all powerful tools, social network can be used the wrong way. A new literacy for the Fourth Revolution is needed; it will without doubt … Continue reading
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Video of the month: the Open Enterprise by Shereef Bishay
VIDEO OF THE MONTH: Shereef Bishay – Open Enterprise: Applying Open Source Principles to the way we Work – on the organization of the Collaborative Age is a real eye-opener on how conventional workplace is boring and how to transfer … Continue reading
The proof of the failure of conventional R&D, and what to do about it
In high-tech, breakthrough technology appears to be negatively correlated with R&D expenditure. In this amazing article, how Apple disrupted its market on a shoe-string R&D budget, we see how R&D expenditure (relative to the revenue of the company) does not … Continue reading
Kaggle.com is still missing the point of Crowd-Innovation – unleashing the Value of the Fourth Revolution
Did you hear about Kaggle.com? It is one of the most innovative startups of 2011 according to Business Insider. Agreed, it is an improvement on the model of “Open Innovation” developped by Innocentive or Ninesigma, but unfortunately it still misses the point of collaborative … Continue reading
How can we push social media more quickly in the organization?
There have been a few interesting and controversial posts in the past few months about the topic of the adoption of social media in the organization. Clay Shirky the famous social media expert (“Here comes everybody: the power of social … Continue reading
What can we learn from Jonathan’s Starbucks card experiment?
Did you hear about Jonathan’s starbucks card experiment? It’s quite a simple experiment with deep learning in crowdfunding. Jonathan made his starbucks card available to anyone on the internet. Anyone could buy a coffee with it. And anyone could put … Continue reading
The one thing organizations that want to move Collaborative need
Moving to the Collaborative Age is simple… but not easy! Many organizations just touch collaborative tools from far, sometimes just using them as another broadcasting tool. The thing is, organizations need to dramatically change their approach to be able to … Continue reading
Multiple identities on internet: why debate? The trend is obvious!
Should multiple identities be allowed for a single individual on the internet? The debate rages. Facebook and Google+ try to force everyone to show a single identity. Still, since the beginning of internet, geeks often like to have different identities … Continue reading
The corporate revolution is upon us!
The coming corporate revolution due to collaborative technology becomes mainstream. See for example this interesting article by Forbes “Social Power and the Coming Social Revolution”. Several examples in this paper show how consumers can influence company decisions, sometimes decisively. While … Continue reading
The Fourth Revolution in 10 bullet points
I have had some requests for a quick digest of the Fourth Revolution book. So, here is ‘The Fourth Revolution’ in 10 points: the Fourth Revolution changes the world as we know it fundamentally: our society, our institutions, the way … Continue reading
Still skeptical about the Fourth Revolution? Read this post, and experience it firsthand!
Have you seen this video on TED? “What we learned from 5 million books” video on TED. The idea is dead simple but only the Fourth Revolution would allow it. Based on Google’s now huge and unprecendented database of scanned … Continue reading
Open leadership – giving up control is inevitable
As the Fourth Revolution grows and spreads, giving up control is inevitable. Leaders cannot any more control everything that is being done in the organization. Organizations cannot control any more their market as they used to do (for example, spending … Continue reading
The history of crowdfunding – the Fourth Revolution in action
I have had quite a few reactions from the blog post on Kiva.org, or how we can give money to needy individuals at the other end of the world. That’s called crowdfunding. Here is a link to an interesting post … Continue reading