Business leadership is discovering the enormous advantages of complexity and complexity science. Many difficult or ‘wicked’ problems...
Monthly Archives: December 2013
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The Network Age
The end of the first decade of the 21st century marked the 50th anniversary of the Information...
Codified CoPs Are Harmful
Conventional, online communities of practice (CoP), with the de rigueur ‘best practices’ (?) are often highly counterproductive. Galaxies of...
LinkedIn Visualization
There is a new open source offering for LinkedIn Visualization. It is by Craig Tutterow, Doctoral Student,...
The Many Commandments of Social Media Argumentation
Social media are not good for argument. They are rife with gross logical fallacies. Often there exist...
Transaction-Cost Economics and ESA
The firms of the past were transactional by nature. Ronald Coase’s Transaction-Cost Economics (TCE) was the theory...
Trust
Trust is rising on the enterprise agenda. It’s because traditional, 20th Century levers of command, control and...
Crowdsourcing Anarchy
Someone asked, “Can social media and crowdsourcing help government activities?” This is a good question but the...
Anarchy, Society and Social Media
Some people struggle to recognize the great importance of anarchy to society. Unfortunately, these folks have been...
Network Research Centers
There is an explosion of research, offerings, education and interest in social network analysis (SNA). SNA is...