A snapshot of the managerial and economical trends over the last decades helps build an understanding of management that makes the authoritarian figure of senior management - built by Taylor, Fayol and Chandler - history.

The first element is quality management.

It is based on the fact that in a world of abundance, the supply side is […]

Initially published on the Headshift’s blog.
Jack Vinson recently reported the NY-Toronto Law Firm KM Summit 2008 in Boston, in which he writes about the distinction between KM and Enterprise 2.0. It’s not the first time this sort of distinction is being made. In reality it is a common process for those who try to get […]

Here in Singapore, I am having some interesting conversations, with one great, established blogger and a group of social media educated people, on blogging behind the firewall.
Most of the conversation is around finding a way to engage people so that they blog. The classical $1,000 “how?” question. I think it is worth writing couple of […]

Mark Gould wrote a nice post based on Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work. I encourage you to read Mark’s post. Below are just some notes based on his post as well as his comment in reply to Stephen Bounds.
It’s good that someone re-iterates the fact that […]

In this post, I will share some of ideas and findings that kept me and my team busy lately. Part of the text below has been co-authored so I would like to associate Du Juan, Han-Leon Chia and Sunny Lim to this post. It voluntarily is focused on system design.
We address in a renovated way, […]