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Tomorrow’s organizations will only thrive if they recognize the uncertainty that faces them and actively imagine the possible threats and opportunities that will emerge under different circumstances. No one can predict the future. But every organization is responsible for defining policies, creating culture and deploying infrastructure that will make them resilient in the face of change.

Latest Posts

Welcome to the Serendipity Economy
Welcome to the Serendipity Economy Industrial age economics obscures economic activity that doesn’t fit neatly into its models of productivity and efficiency. In an ever more connected world, a new framework is required that accounts for the valued derived from …
What is the difference between Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom?
What is the difference between Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom? The debate over the relationship between data, information, knowledge and wisdom continues to evolve as new forms of representation emerge. My personal perspective runs contrary to IT and philosophical definitions. …
Serious Insights Device Case Buyer’s Guide
Serious Insights Device Case Buyer’s Guide How people use their cases varies widely. People need device cases that work when traveling, running to the market, attending a concert, climbing a mountain, bicycling, taking pictures, listening to music, watching video …
What can universities, colleges and museums learn from knowledge management about how to adapt?
Education and museum knowledge management It seems counter-intuitive to advise learning organizations about how to implement learning, but universities, colleges and museums often find themselves locked into a matrix of intellectual intransigence hardened by politics, funding and bias. To avoid …
Thought Leadership’s Golden Rules [Infographic]
Thought Leadership’s Golden Rules Thought leadership isn’t just for individuals. In the Serious Insights guide “Thought Leaderhip’s Golden Rules,” you will learn how to use thought leadership to shape people’s perception of a company, its products and its services. Firms …
Innovation: More Poetry than Science
Innovation: More Poetry than Science Practical lessons from 35 years of writing poetry to help individuals and teams deliver more innovative products, processes, and services. In a conversation with Phil McKinney, former HP Chief Innovation Officer and author of Beyond the Obvious: Killer …
Why Best Practices Suck
Best practices are like vampires: They can suck the life out of an organization, kill its productivity, drain its creativity, and bleed its initiative. If you seek perfection in perpetuity, your organization’s learning apparatus will become an animated corpse cursed …
Review and Interview: Mission Workshop Radian travel pack
Review and Interview: Mission Workshop Radian travel pack The Radian $585 Mission Workshop When I saw the press release pictures of the new Mission Workshop Radian travel pack I had to see it in-person. Mission designed the Radian with sleek …
Developing a Winning Thought Leadership Strategy
Developing a Winning Thought Leadership Strategy What Is a Thought Leadership Strategy? How do you think about the future of your market? Does your organization include people who help shape your industry? What unique insights does your organization have about …
Don’t Deploy IoT Without Knowledge Management
Don’t Deploy IoT Without Knowledge Management The Internet of Things (ioT) empowers organizations to apply knowledge management (KM) in the physical world. IoT provides a platform for capturing and managing metadata about physical objects. IoT also requires knowledge management for …
IBM Debater and Rubik’s Cube Solutions: Why AI Isn’t Intelligence
Why AI isn’t Intelligence Classifying the wonders of current machine learning algorithms as artificial intelligence does a disservice to the idea of intelligence and creates a vague market that offers little differentiation or definition of the solutions it contains. AI …
Review: SanDisk iXpand™ Flash Drive
Review: SanDisk iXpand™ Flash Drive I evaluated the SanDisk iXpand™ Flash Drive several years ago. I found the original SanDisk iXpand a useful device, especially for travel. SanDisk recently sent me an eval unit of the new version. The smaller …