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Design and “Gamification At Work” 25 Jun 2013 | 01:06 am
The Interaction Design Foundation is publishing Gamification At Work by Jankaki Kumar and Mario Herger for the public tomorrow. I just finished reading the book and taking notes thinking I might revie...
Siloed Social Conversations Impede Shared Experience 19 Jun 2013 | 09:30 pm
The Altimeter Group’s report from earlier this year, The Evolution of Social Business: Six Stages of Social Business Transformation, offers the above graphic to exemplify the way social networking dev...
Podular Organization and Edge Businesses 9 May 2013 | 07:46 pm
My last post, Institutional Innovation and Podular Design, noted a number of insights from the Aspen Institute's report, Institutional Innovation: Oxymoron or Imperative?. One insight which I did not ...
Paradigm Shifts, TED Talks, and the Rosetta Stone 3 May 2013 | 02:03 am
People discussing the pace of change that organizations face in dealing with connected customers, globalization, competition, distributed workforces, innovation, etc. often assert that a paradigm shif...
Business Exceptions Are Not Always What They Seem 30 Apr 2013 | 07:37 pm
Common wisdom among thought leaders who examine learning in organizations notes that most of the learning that occurs is done informally, or socially. However, informal learning has its own limitation...
Collaboration, Empathy, and Language in Global Teams 27 Mar 2013 | 07:22 pm
The trade-offs in deciding whether to implement a lingua franca policy are pretty well known. Pressure from other global players such as suppliers, customers, partners, and competitors who increasingl...
Institutional Innovation and Podular Design 31 Jan 2013 | 08:34 pm
In Social is the plural of personal JP Rangaswami contends that institutional innovation is required to achieve the potential that social software offers organizations in general, and for-profit compa...
Revisiting the Great Innovation Debate 3 Jan 2013 | 02:42 am
An early Skilful Minds post introduced The Great Innovation Debate, focusing on the distinctions between Tom Friedland's conception that when it comes to innovation the world is flat, and the alternat...
On the Roots of Social Computing 18 Nov 2011 | 10:56 am
I recently received an invitation from Mads Soegaard, Editor-in-Chief at Interaction-Design.org to offer those who read this blog an early view of a new chapter on Social Computing in their encycloped...
A Learnability and Experience Design Update 9 Nov 2011 | 04:01 pm
One of my earlier posts discussed the learnability of a service as a key challenge for experience design. Today I ran across this early video from Don Norman on learnability and product design. I thou...
