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Game Dynamics and Internal Market Making
I like the idea that Seth Priebatsch is ‘determined to build a game layer on top of the world’ in the same way I like Jane McGonigal’s work to save the world with games. Seth says in his TEDxBoston talk … Continue reading
Dan Pink: Management is a television set (i.e. technology)
From Dan Pink’s TED talk on “The Surprising Science of Motivation”: “In the 20th century we came up with this idea of management. Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree it’s a television set. Okay? – … Continue reading
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David Heinemeier’s ‘Unlearn Your MBA’ talk at Stanford
This is nice. My favourite section: “There’s no management when we’re three people. There’s no management when we’re 15 people. We still don’t have any managers hired in 37signals. Every single one of us are producers. I’m still a producer. … Continue reading
Breaking down innovation accountabilities
I’m attending an ‘innovation workshop’ today. I’m looking forward to it but it also feels a little bit dirty. Innovation is important – but I’m not sure it can be managed directly. Management of anything politicises it; but with vague notions … Continue reading
Explicit collaboration
MWT Collaboration Architectures are a critical component of the MWT Model. In short, a collaboration architecture defines how individuals collaborate on a particular task. As with most architecture work, the focus is on what needs to be shared and what … Continue reading
Project Managers Should Not Fear the Baseline | CIO – Blogs and Discussion
There is some wisdom in Jim Vaughan’s article and the related comments: The poor performance of the project usually has less to do with the project manager or the project team and more to do with the systemic failures of … Continue reading
The Professional Mess
There is a very interesting interview with Dr. Thomas Dorman on the Lew Rockwell podcast entitled ‘The Medical Mess’. Dr. Dorman talks about how placing an intermediary between a professional (the doctor in this case) and their customer (patient in … Continue reading
No wrong way to slice the pie? (and do you even know?)
Management, as a discipline, has a problem it can”t solve. It needs to coordinate separate but related activities caused by the division of labour. And it needs to be able to do this regardless of how labour is divided. Project … Continue reading
Does the enterprise architecture really ‘contain’ the organisation?
Is the enterprise architecture a town plan? I’m not sure I agree with the idea that the enterprise architecture is analogous to a town plan. For example, under the work-in-progress ‘Coherent Enterprise Archiecture’ (CEA) e-book maintained here, the follow definition … Continue reading
Traceability in enterprise architecture
Whenever I read about enterprise architecture I’m always struck by how technical the conversation seems. I’m not anti-technical; but in my mind architecture is more important than what we generally call management. This is also implicit in the principles of … Continue reading