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  • HR and Innovation

    In my previous blog “Brand, Workforce and Innovation”, i started making a case for a leadership role for HR in Innovation. I wrote: I’d love to see more HR in a true leadership role. Leadership as opposite to management in its narrow definition of executing a course set out by somebody else. See also below… Read more

  • Need for a new currency based on abundancy

    Thanks to my subscription to Fredzimmy’s blog, I found this wonderful blog from Esko Kilpi. I really recommend you to explore this site from A to Z. Look at the wonderful slidedeck on Slideshare Have a look at the Flickr photos Have a look at the Bookmarks MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics Group, Howard Rheingold… Read more

  • Education, Elites and Bologna

    I was watching this morning a television program with Christine Van Den Wyngaert. The program was in essence about her views and role in the Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, but mu attention was triggered by something she said in the introductory part of the interview. She was referring to the dramatic decrease of… Read more

  • Zemanta and the Semantic Web

      If you want to have an idea what Semantic Web can mean for you and your business, have a look at http://www.zemanta.com. It comes as a Google Chrome Extension, or a Firefox extension, or a IE Plug-in or Safari Bookmarklet. I tested the Google Chrome extension on my PC. In this case a Mini-HP… Read more

  • Cloud Security and other Cloudy observations

    Another great article on Technology Review MIT, this time about cloud computing. Together with the 2 documents i posted earlier today on innotribe.com this should give the average IT literate reader a good overview of where we stand end 2009/begin 2010. The clientele for Amazon’s cloud services now includes the New York Times and Pfizer.… Read more

  • Real-Time Trade

    Fascinating article on how stock market is getting completely automated in a matter of seconds. Who was saying something about real-time. Article found on MIT Technology Review. 5 pager can be found here. Some extracts: The profits go to the company with the fastest hardware and the best algorithms–advantages that enable it to spot and… Read more