93 Articles match "collaboration","hierarchy"

• The Best from Informal Learning Flow

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• The Cloud and Collaboration
  
  Hope can emerge from new collaborative models based on a new paradigm; science and art will act gracefully to match human nature, and to shape the future of humanity. (80+1, It expresses the idea that the cloud enables us to work together, to collaborate, to forge a new consensus. The response is a "worldwide social network of self-selected people resembling human brain and mind, who will collaborate in Paper written as a contribution to the Ars Electronica symposium on Cloud Intelligence . Let's take as a starting point the discussion of 'cloud intelligence' on the conference
  Half an Hour - Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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• The DNA of Organizational Hierarchy
  
  The DNA of Hierarchy And even more reinforcing of hierarchy, it assumes that the superior jobs (on the org chart) carry a greater capability to define, understand and resolve problems. As customers interact with organizations via connected software, and while peers collaborate using e-mail and on integrated systems, and can find knowledge quicly in databases or on the Web, is it any wonder that these fundamental assumptions aren’t up to the job of designing work? ( Re-published from October 2002 … browsing through old stuff, it’s interesting what comes up .
  Wirearchy - Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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• Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools (That Aren't Google Wave) [Lifehacker Top 10]
  
  Lest ye forget, there are plenty of web-based collaboration tools that don't require learning a new way of speaking. Still, MediaWiki's power lies in how easy it is for multiple people to make and commit changes to a document, link inside and out of other pages, create page structures and hierarchies on the fly, and work from pretty much any browser on Earth. For a certain kind of work, it's a real time saver, and it makes it easy to respond when your collaborators You've probably heard about a hard-to-get , hugely new service called Google Wave . Here are a few of our (mostly
  Lifehacker - Saturday, October 3, 2009
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• A Brief Analysis … McKinsey’s “Six Ways to Make Web 2.0 Work”
  
  People work mostly with current information, and as well as the use of collaboration platforms grow, all the exchanges that happen and the content material contributed will be automatically absorbed into the platform’s archives. have been saying from the outset that hierarchy and wirearchy are complementary (hence the beginning of the definition of wirearchy, ” a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority … “).  I McKinsey Consulting has recently released a report titled “ Six Ways to Make Web 2.0 Work ” (downloadable PDF).
  Wirearchy - Friday, February 20, 2009
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• Co-operation: from soft skill to hard skill
  
  Work in networks requires different skills than in directed hierarchies, which have nurtured these CEO’s for the past decades. In a hierarchy you only have to please your boss. Co-operation is not the same as collaboration, though they are complementary. What are known as soft skills , like getting along with others, are becoming much more important than commonly known hard skills. This is still not a general perception amongst business leaders; as recently as last year, Management-Issues reported:
  Learning and Working on the Web - Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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• 25 Stretch Goals for Management
  
  To build organizations that are more than merely efficient, we will need to draw lessons from such fields as biology and theology, and from such concepts as democracies and markets. Eliminate the pathologies of formal hierarchy. There are advantages to natural hierarchies, where power flows up from the bottom and leaders emerge instead of being appointed. Reduce fear and increase trust. In May 2008, a group of renowned scholars and business leaders gathered in Half Moon Bay, California, with a simple goal: to lay out an agenda for reinventing management in the 21st century. The two-day event, organized by the Management Lab with support from McKinsey & Company, brought together veteran management experts such as CK Prahalad , Henry Mintzberg , and Peter Senge ; distinguished social commentators including Kevin Kelly , James Surowiecki and Shoshana Zuboff ; and a number of progressive CEOs, including Terri Kelly from WL Gore , Vineet Nayar from HCL Technologies
  HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Overcoming the Obstacles To Social Business
  
  And this could cause a culture shock to the system of an organization structured upon decades of tradition, hierarchy, middle management and incentives. In order to get off the legal treadmill, you need a combination of leadership and collaboration. Riskphobia While social media often commands favorable media attention, the less often told story is that successful initiatives are rare to come by and that there still a number of organizational roadblocks that managers need to overcome in order to make progress. Still, we are seeing signs of progress in the form of new
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, November 9, 2009
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• 10 Mantras for Emerging Leaders in 2009
  
  We need to break down the walls of hierarchy, for our future role as leaders is not about leading from the top, but co-innovating at the front lines. 3. From Me to We Collaboration is the need of the hour. History has shown us that, be it the thawing of the Cold War or the formation of the European Union, dealing with cross border terrorism or cross border recession, the power of collaboration is our only answer. Tomorrow became a little distant from today in 2008. With the challenges facing businesses today--versus even six months ago-- emerging leaders find little
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, December 29, 2008
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• The future of the training department
  
  As The Cluetrain Manifesto succinctly stated almost a decade ago, “Hyperlinks subvert hierarchies”. Hierarchies may not die in the future but they may have to co-exist with a new form of workplace organization, the Wirearchy . The primary function of learning professionals within this new work model is connecting and communicating, based on three core processes: * Facilitating collaborative work and learning amongst workers, especially as peers. * by Harold Jarche and Jay Cross Prior to the 20th Century, training per se did not exist outside the special needs
  TogetherLearn - Friday, February 20, 2009
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• Power Laws and Power Dynamics
  
  especially hierarchies), are the power dynamics conditioned by the multiple hierarchies in most of the groups we participate unorganized collaborative activities ("pick-up" sports, karaoke, dances, this is rarely or never authentically practiced (most hierarchies pretend BLOG Power Laws and Power Dynamics Dynamics C hristopher Allen
  How to Save the World - Thursday, March 19, 2009
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