Tag: change

  • Social Business is growing up.

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    Starting on a tangent… One of the beauties of the written word, particularly in digital format, is that it cannot be “worn out” in the physical sense which makes me think that overuse is the digital equivalent where we become desensitised to the significance and numb to the meaning being conveyed. At the current rate,…

  • Life’s Change Agent

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    This quote (emphasis mine) comes from Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address, and speaks to some core fundamentals of what for me is a big part of “Enterprise 2.0” or “social business”. It’s the hard part, the change. No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don’t want to die…

  • Uncertain, Yet Exciting Times

    Uncertain, Yet Exciting Times

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    Simon Scullion
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    Photo Credit: Ironclad HMS Warrior engine crankshaft by Elsie esq. Friend and colleague @NigelBarron earlier today passed me this post from Don Tapscott of Macrowikinomics fame: Davos: New Realities and Managing New Global Risks – Don Tapscott, which contains this inspirational line: the industrial age is finally coming to an end and to achieve economic…

  • “New-Generation Workers” Want Technology Their Way

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    Simon Scullion

    Today I caught a discussion on the findings of a survey carried out by Accenture. Millennial generation students and employees (those aged 14 to 27) expect to use their own technology and mobile devices for work and are increasingly choosing their place of employment based on how accommodating companies are to their personal technology preferences…