The evolution from a material economy toward a knowledge economy implies a shift in the balance between explicit and tacit elements of work. If we take arbitrarily the law of 80/20, it is possible to says that:
• In the early 20th century (Taylor), activity was made of 80% of explicit elements and […]

During my PhD, I focussed on the required elements for managing in a knowledge economy.
My initial assumption was that one cannot manage an organisation with recipes from the 20’s or the 50’s because at that time the economy was different: physicallity (not knowledge) was proeminent. This has given me the opportunity to venture into many […]

Note: this post can be read for itself, but might appears “out of the blue” as it relates to a more grounded argumentation in the French section of my blog. In fact it is principally here to sustain a conversation held through another post.
 
For ages, there has been collusion between cost and value, created by […]

Tonight I have an immense desire to blog. It’s been months I have not been blogging, but today some information that reached me via my Yahoo Pipes and Twitter folks pushed me to blog. In fact what I want to share now is something that I had in mind for quite some time already. I […]

After Open Source, Open Data is trendy. Governments are revamping their public service information policies, robust and commonly accepted standards of data emerge, results blossom.
As a said in a previous post, the public service is at the forefront, not the private sector. The two major reasons are financial - it is an opportunity to […]