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  • How to create deep sustainable change

    In my job, I hear many executives asking “to shake the tree”. What does that mean ? The temptation to just “Pump-up-the-volume” or let the innovation engine run “red hot” is just around the corner. “Let’s come up with a list of hundreds of initiatives and “tricks”, and we’re done.” Tick ? Don’t think so.… Read more

  • Digital Identity Tour Part-4: Austin–Munich–Toronto

    This post is a fourth in a series on personal digital identity. Part-1 “The unpolished diamond was published here in August 2010 and Part-2 ‘The Digital Identity Tuner” was published here in September 2010. Part-3 “Personal Data Something” was published here in December 2010. The journey continues. Now we move into Austin for TEDxAustin and… Read more

  • Team dynamics and the fiction of friendship

    Check out this wonderful RSA animation about Steven Pinker’s “Language as a Window into Human Nature” Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings. But I looked at this animation and was triggered by how much this relates to how our economies, companies, teams, ourselves and… Read more

  • Farsight 2011 Highlights: what explosion of information really means

    Have a look at a couple of the excellent videos on this wrap-up site about Farsight2011. I could spent days and days in this space. All my favorites, including Hedge Fund Manager and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Recorded Future co-founder and CEO Chris Ahlberg, journalist entrepreneur Esther Dyson, and many more in one big long… Read more

  • Innotribe Special Session at SOFA: The new thinkers

    SOFA stands for SWIFT Operational Forum Americas, a yearly event targeted at a typical operational audience. This year’s SOFA is on 8-9 March 2011 in NYC. The theme for SOFA 2011 is “Defining the next generation of financial services”.     Innotribe is SWIFT’s innovation initiative. Innotribe’s mission is ‘Enabling Collaborative Innovation’. Part of our… Read more

  • Future of Money and/or Value

    If you’re interested in discounted tickets for one of the coolest Future of Money conferences of Q1 2011, bear with me and read till the end of this post. As most of you will remember, SWIFT’s innovation initiative “Innotribe” was one of the Executive Sponsors of Future of Money video production. The Future of Money… Read more