buy modafinil provigil uk In 1990 I was an academic in Romania, teaching control systems theory. And I was making $50 a month — enough for food and utilities. For a series of political and economic reasons, I left Romania to move to Canada, and things changed dramatically — pretty soon I was earning a lot more than $50/m. […]
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Thoughts from Finovate Fall 2011
I have attended for the first time a Finovate event this past week in New York. A very successful event, it was attended by hundreds of people from the financial services industry, and I’ve seen a lot of interest in listening to presentations from over 60 startups attempting to change the way people interact with […]
Enterprise Ecosystem Social Network
(adapted from previous work in collaboration with Mike Wing, Jack Mason, Brian Goodman) In a global enterprise, where does the individual fit into the organization? How must the relationship between knowledge workers and global enterprises evolve and adjust? Does the focus move from the organization as a hierarchy to a smaller networks of connected people? […]
Wikis or Blogs?
In an eye-opening blog post, Andrew McAfee talks about “How to Hit the Enterprise 2.0 Bullseye“. His theoretical foundation is derived from Granovetter’s “The Strength of Weak Ties” — applied to social computing. In a nutshell, McAfee argues that the we need to look at social relationships from the perspective of their relative strengths. While […]
Do You Want To Be My Friend ?
I have profiles defined on Facebook, Linkedin, Plaxo, and several others. In each case, I have a list of connections/relationships/friends, and it is up to me to remember the social context of that relationship, a context that is “in my head” and not saved in the system. What we need is a way to classify […]