What is Emotional Infrastructure? Historically, organizations were either small, tight-knit communities or they were larger amalgams of communities more or less designed to achieve an organization’s goals. Although organizations may be divided into functions or lines of business, the association of employment and brand offered common ground. Even in the most dysfunctional organizations, there was little.
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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..
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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.
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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.
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Here is the Zina story from one of the Falling Skies teams. Zina Falling Skies This morning the link is up, which means Zina can connect to a few people in the Midwestern United States—if she’s lucky, she can bounce around the Net and find a way to connect with her relatives in Portland, but.
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During the E 2.0 Organization Next Workshop, I asked participants to create people who live in the various futures we explored. Over the next few days, I will be talking the answers to their questions and writing little day-in-the-life stories about some of the people who might populate these possible futures. Today I start with.
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Hi everybody. Enterprise 2.0 is a little over a week away, so I thought I would give you a sense of what we’ll be doing in the workshop. First, I will provide an introduction to scenario planning. As discussed in previous blogs, the future of the organization is dependent on context, and that context is.
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