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Category: Management

Post-modern management: Partnership more important than leadership in 2010

Monday, 28 December 2009 11:18 Written by Eric Garland 0 Comments

Professor Karl Moore from McGill, who did that interview with Michael Porter the other day on the future of business’ role in society, is back with a TED talk he gave on the future of post-modern management. He notes that as the internet creates a system of “algorithmic authority” and tears down the rigidity of authority, “leadership” and “management” will have less impact on team-building than partnership, especially for those under age thirty-five.

Given the role of larger and larger bureaucracies in many key industries, this reality will be quite disruptive.

Arik Johnson on the organizations of the future

Thursday, 19 November 2009 09:56 Written by Eric Garland 0 Comments

The most important implications of any strategic trend is usually not that your organization must do something drastic, it is that your organization is obsolete and can’t respond effectively at all.

Case in point: newspapers and the Internet. It’s not so much that newspapers could have done something to maintain their business model of classified advertising, it’s that they need a brand new business model and structure to survive. If that is the major implication of the trends we track as strategic analysts, then we almost must develop skills to help organizations change quickly and painlessly.

On that note, check out this talk from Aurora WDC’s Arik Johnson on the future of organizations, recorded at last month’s Intelligence Collaborative meeting in Washington.

August Jackson: Be the change you want to see in the intelligence profession

Monday, 19 October 2009 19:13 Written by Eric Garland 0 Comments

A sneak preview of August Jackson’s presentation at the inaugural Intelligence Collaboration meeting coming up this Thursday.

An introduction to the Intelligence Collaborative

Monday, 19 October 2009 14:36 Written by Eric Garland 0 Comments

I’m very excited for our upcoming inaugural meeting, this Thursday of our new, increasingly global, professional society, The Intelligence Collaborative.

The following video explains what intelligence is, why we need to collaborate, and why now is the perfect moment.

Have a look at the video, and if you’re anywhere in the MidAtlantic region, consider a trip to our nation’s capital this Thursday. Tickets are free – just bring your interest in how social media will change the practice of intelligence.

Interview with Arik Johnson on the future of competitive intelligence

Monday, 07 September 2009 02:23 Written by Eric Garland 0 Comments

It is more than enough work thinking about how the world is changing. Exceedingly few people think about how people think arikjohnsonabout the changing world. I’m proud to say I know some great folks who are on the cutting edge of understanding intelligence and decision making. Here, we’ve got a copy of the latest Competitive Intelligence Podcast, the brainchild of August Jackson. This time, he’s interviewing our friend and colleague Arik Johnson of the intelligence consulting firm Aurora WDC, on his view of the present and future of intelligence and its effect on leadership. The interview is broad ranging

  • A new paradigm of intelligence: scarcity of analysis instead of scarcity of information
  • The “perpetual beta” mindset, one of rapidly-changing technology and reduced barriers to entry
  • The next decade of competitive intelligence: CI 2020
  • CI’s evolving role as a mechanism and process to correct for cognitive bias
  • The importance of a customer-centric model in delivering intelligence

It’s a great year to revisit our assumptions on how decisions are made. This is a great discussion to get you kicked off.

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