Placing a price on research; #HBR blog on #innovation and the long term . . . .
Anne Marie Knott from Wash U biz school raises briefly a profound question: how to maintain a major R and D budget when returns are graded quarterly and markets fluctuate by the second. Which always makes me realize how much better, in fact, is our corporate decision-making than it really should be. Out there is … Continue reading
Rupert #Murdoch ‘s Unfolding Disaster #CSR
How to Hit an Iceberg: Rupert Murdoch’s Unfolding Disaster Reposted from 7/28 2011 As events have unfolded in the News of the World scandal I have kept being reminded of a phrase that explains much of the appeal of that (now defunct) newspaper: the fascination of the horrible. Really grim things can grip. That’s 50% … Continue reading
Unilever’s #CSR #Sustainability Marketing Push
Unilever plans corporate sustainability ads | News | Marketing Week. It’s an old principle that if you don’t actually keep your good deeds entirely to yourself, at least don’t flaunt them all over the place. (Jesus said quite a lot about that.) In general, companies have been cautious about claiming too much for their efforts … Continue reading
Saving the net, one way and another and another
“Prove It or Lose It” I spent much of Sunday afternoon with Gunther Sonnenfeld (@goonth) in Santa Monica, and am delighted to read and recommend his rumination that picks up our conversation and takes it a lot further. Yesterday was spent crossing the continent, and lunchtime today I was in DC at the Aspen Institute … Continue reading
Our Brands, Ourselves
Brands Under Pressure – The Brand Lives in the Employees’ Voice | Networking Exchange Blog. Cheryl Burgess’ (@ckburgess) timely discussion of humanizing brands in the voices and persons of employees looks to the Apple “genius bar” as a prime example. I’d assumed it was a reverse riff on Best Buy’s longstanding Geek Squad (not sure … Continue reading
#gov20la – notes on my presentation today
These are notes – for now. . . .
The context for technology is culture and human decision-making. The context for Government 2.0 technologies lies in the contemporary crisis in liberal democracy, of which the United States may have the worst case though parallel problems are evident in democracies worldwide.
3-fold crisis:
1. In process
Confidence in Congress reported as having risen to 17%. Rise of “exopolitics” – Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, Moveon.org, No Labels, the grassroots revolt on SOPA, all examples of the decanting of political focus from the center to activity only indirectly relating to traditional political channels and process. Parallel examples: German Pirate Party overtakes the Greens; Uk Daily Mail endorses Marine Le Pen for the French election.
2. In policy
Major party policy packages were formulated in an earlier generation and are increasingly out of kilter with the focus and weighting of issues of the public at large. A fundamental process of transformation is needed to reconnect with core concerns of 21st century citizens.
3. In leadership.
The faster change takes place, the more leadership is needed. It is lacking across the political spectrum. Leaders frame questions, they enable adaptation to change by shaping people’s thinking not simply following it.
In each category, engagement in Gov2.0 is key to enabling transformation.
UPDATED: The #exopolitics move continues . . . Politics outside politics. #gov20la
I first posted the discussion below in January. Couple striking recent developments to add. The Germany Pirate Party is now polling better than the Greens. And the UK’s Daily Mail – very much a mainstream conservative paper – has published a clarion call to support Marine Le Pen for the French presidency. Go figure. I’m … Continue reading
Isn’t it all about #Risk and #Alignment? at the #EIC12 Conference in Munich
European Identity & Cloud Conference 2012 I just arrived at this conference which is hosted by analysts Kuppinger Cole and has grown into a major watering-hole for players in several related spaces. Check out the speaker roster to see. I shall be sharing the intro keynote with Martin Kuppinger and then moderating the plenaries through … Continue reading
We Need to Talk – about #Twitter: Reciprocal Knowledge Engine PLUS
Some time back I wrote and then revised a piece on both my Twitter use and the power of Twitter as a machine for building knowledge through mutual or reciprocal curation – what perhaps we can designate a “reciprocal knowledge engine. ” Google just told me that it could not find the phrase, so it … Continue reading
Leadership 2.0? #Corpgov #Risk #Twitter
@dorieclark’s post on transparency and leadership draws attention to both the need and the opportunity that social media offer executive leaders to put themselves out there, known by their stakeholders. Yes and yes, but there’s more. The famous example of Paul Levy’s blog on how to run a hospital dates way back to 2006 (!); … Continue reading
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