The Christmas Holidays is an excellent time for reviewing and reflecting. #In this post, I will make a review of 2010
When I look back at 2010 a lot of things comes to mind. I have been fortunate to meet and work with some very inspirational people, I have worked on some very challenging and innovative [...]
Yesterday, I my friend @andersfind provided a very insightful observation. “For the first time #in history” he said, “the private sphere is ahead of the corporate one in terms of technology adoption”. “We use a thousand apps and communication tools for leisure, while struggling with our inbox at work”. Great stuff, Anders!
I recently did a lecture on Social Change at Copenhagen Business School (video #in Danish). Below is a short summary of the lecture
1) Existing models of change management are outdated and have proven inefficient:
The top-down transformational model is based on erroneous assumptions – that the executive management team has full information about the external environment, [...]
I his legendary article, “Organizational design, fashion or fit?”, Henry Mintzberg described the interaction between the external environments and organizational structure – and how organizations must adapt their structure to handle environmental pressure.
As explained by Dave Snowden, an increasing number of industries are facing complex and dynamic environments, which according to Mintzberg would drive organizations [...]
Here comes part 2 of the report from the Social Media event last week at Soho, Copenhagen. Illustrations can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/boetter#p/a/u/0/ntqhKQuJNcU
Employee driven content strategy: Jakob Wickmann, Chief Strategist at DR Media
Jakob described his experiences of a “employee driven” content strategy process at DR. He stressed 5 critical success factors for open innovation:
A real need [...]
It’s been an early morning – hosted a 7:00 Social Media Update at Soho Copenhagen with 70 high ranking participants from a broad selection of Danish companies and public sector organizations. Below is a short summary (part 1 of 2)
Lars Kolind, Chairman of Unimerco, Wemind, and KeepFocus @kolind
Lars introduced by emphasizing the enourmous socio-economic changes [...]
The “kick” of the today: We went live with a new facebook app for the Danish Council of Road Safety during the weekend – and received the ultimate proof of appreciation – a wonderful cake from La Glace, Copenhagens finest cake shop. Thanks to Mikkel, Martin, Johan, Stephan, Michelle and Pernille for an exciting project!
Snowden describes the age of complexity and how we need to let go of old management paradigms and use strategies such as crowdsourcing for decision making in a complex world.
And it surely feels like this complexity is actually escalating. Institutions are being torn apart, people around the globe refusing to obey authority, and bloggers are [...]
We spent the Easter holiday in the vacation house, which doesn’t have neither television nor internet connection. Being totally offline was a blast – but on the third day the first signs of restlessness started to show. I started looking through a box of old books and stumpled upon “How to Stop Worrying and [...]
MAN Diesel in Frederikshavn recently annnounced the need to lay off 400 employees. The factory was named employer of the year 2006 by a leading professional organization, something that attracted special attention to how the company would handle the situation. And MAN Diesel certainly stood up to the challenge. The company engaged in a true [...]
