I have been long fascinated by the economics of cognitive work and I plan to explore this topic across a number of blog entries. I use the term cognitive work, not knowledge work, because knowledge work is a slippery slope. As soon as you...
Not long ago, I was presenting along with some folks to the senior executive team at a large division of a massive insurance company. I had the great pleasure of listening to Eileen Naughton of YouTube, when she referred to Google as the operating...
Check out my new post at Harvard Business Review which talks about the new physicality of information — linking marketplace & marketspace: http://tinyurl.com/25mxkqy
A dear friend of mine Barbara Feinberg researched many new product development processes and she helped Kim Clark and Steve Wheelright of the Harvard Business School as they authored Managing New Product and Process Development. Barbara told me about a cool idea. When senior...
A dear friend of mine was asking me about my 1994 article on Managing in the Marketspace, and I wanted to share some of my email to him because I think the overall point is more general than the narrow conversation we were having....
About two months ago I was having a discussion with a senior executive from a world class animation studio about Avatar, James Cameron’s blockbuster movie which has grossed over $2.7 billion worldwide, since May 19, 2010. Depending on whom you believe, Avatar cost...
Howard Greenstein has a nice article on Mashable which notes why content feedback and filters are necessary in social media. We’ve all experienced that person who’s talking on his cell phone in public, in a voice that’s way too loud — on the train,...
There has been a wonderful debate going on in the pages of the Wall Street Journal between Clay Shirky and Nick Carr. Carr became famous for his IT Doesn’t Matter article and has ridden his technology contrarianism to a fantastic intellectual franchise. I have...
All true breakthroughs in an art form come when there is a change in perspective. Some say that Italian Renaissance painter Masaccio (1401-1428) “rediscovered” how to paint in perspective after the technique had been lost in the Dark Ages, and the Renaissance painters all...
Harmonix, the people who brought you the ever popular game Rock Band, have now created two interesting innovations in technology interface using the Microsoft’s Kinect technology which needs no controller to connect to the computer. Put another way, anything, including your body, can become...