This is the last installment of the Enterprise 2.0 Organization Next personas. These stories recognize my interpretation of the data provided by conference attendees. The stories are intended to provide a sense of the scenario constraints, and how the constraints of that future shape the people and their behaviors based on the four contexts provided. Anne Arkie Falling Skies … [Read more...] about Organization Next Workshop Follow-up. The Anne Arkie Persona. #e2conf #organizationnext
Strategic Planning
Organization Next Workshop Follow-up. The Nikita Persona. #e2conf #organizationnext
Nikita Freelance Planet It's the buzz, it's the buzz it's the buzz. That's Nikita's job. To figure out the buzz. As the Director of Conversational Analytics Nikita needs to tell her clients what their people are talking about. She works for a number of companies, but insists on the same title everywhere. It's in the contract. Nakita gestures at her computer and says, … [Read more...] about Organization Next Workshop Follow-up. The Nikita Persona. #e2conf #organizationnext
Organization Next Workshop Follow-up. The Inca Persona. #e2conf #organizationnext
Inca Trial Separation The phone rings. Inca answers it. It is her boss. This time of morning it always her boss. Inca works for BankChina. She is the human resources manager, reporting to the Vice President of Operations. Inca and her boss take their jobs very seriously. She wants to work at the bank for a long time. She’s not ambitious, she just wants the security of … [Read more...] about Organization Next Workshop Follow-up. The Inca Persona. #e2conf #organizationnext
Michael Shermer’s Believing Brain: Anybody Who Doubts the Need for Scenario Planning Needs to Read Shermer
At the heart of scenario planning is the belief that we all fall pray to our biases and that only techniques like scenario planning can help us expand our intellectual horizons in order to see things we might ignore, hear things we might tune out, and incorporate knowledge we might otherwise find blasphemy or hypocrisy. Michael Shermer's new book, The Believing Brain, … [Read more...] about Michael Shermer’s Believing Brain: Anybody Who Doubts the Need for Scenario Planning Needs to Read Shermer
How Twitter Could have Planned for Success
Twitter's Biz Stone bemoans the company's lack of foresight during a Tavis Smiley interview today (Twitter Co-founder: "I wish we could have predicted it.") In anticipation of this topic, I wrote: Why Start-Ups Need More Strategic Planning, and Why Investors Should Help Provide It back in December, and I think is worth a re-read today. Briefly, entrepreneurs need … [Read more...] about How Twitter Could have Planned for Success