Human Capital in the Cloud
Clouding enables beautiful things - talent management in a new way. Why don’t we speak more often about Human Capital (HC) instead of Human Resources (HR)?
Posts tagged ‘Social Business’
Dec 16
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Social Media, Value Creation and the Risk of Missing Out
Knowledge workers must change, adopt and adapt: the way we learn, listen, help, discuss, search, collaborate, combine, produce, and create value.
Social Business, Power Balance and Trust
For a knowledge worker, it's no longer enough to be a good team player, you have to be a good network player. My preso in the International Woman’s Day @ Finnish Technology Industries.
Best Practices, Enterprise 2.0 and Social IT – with Passion
Focus on people practices, have healthy attitude towards control and risks, nurture relationships, networks & innovation, think power balance and ‘people units’.
Nov 19
Innovation and Social Leadership
Mårten Mickos – and some source code – on the stage @ TEDxHelsinki
My brain is bubbling after the TEDxHelsinki event – a creatively built lineup of innovative speakers. The themes were exactly those I’ve been working on lately: Entrepreneurship, innovation, age & generations, and leadership. So here are random thoughts I’d like to share.
Jul 30
Systems Intelligence, Serendipity and Listening for the Better Decisions
A beautiful moment I managed to capture in the Helsinki summer!
I’ve earlier blogged about how I find intuition and seeing the value of the tacit knowledge as very interesting perspectives for the decision-making. As social business and new ways of working are now changing the organizations and the entire business landscape, and further adding to the complexity – I’ll find it even more interesting to study decision-making and how understanding is created.
I was looking for something else from my bookshelf and found the good old book by Stephen P. Robbins “Essentials of Organizational Behavior”, and randomly checked out the chapter about individual differences in decision-making. What I found was an interesting quadrant that describes the leadership styles related to the decision-making, it has two axes: Way of Thinking and Tolerance for Ambiguity. The four styles of decision-making are: Directive, Analytical, Conceptual, and Behavioral.
Decision-Style Model. Source: A.J. Rowe and J.D. Boulgarides, Managerial Decision Making (Prentice Hall 1992)
Apr 17
Embracing Chaos with a Little Help from My Friends
In a recent blog post Harold Jarche – a great knowledge source for smart work and learning – described his view on how real value creation happens at the edge of organizations and requires different management and communications practices.
Game Mechanics and Landscape Design for Customer Value Creation
We need new structures of work, language bath, and the process of helping.
My Nostalgia Trip to Pre Social Business
As part of my unlearning and learning process towards better understanding of Social Business I’ve been thinking back the time I worked for a Swedish Supply Chain Management (SCM) company IBS.
Yes, I am recalling the attempts we made in order to build a platform for a global wholesale distribution, the concept was called as Virtual Enterprise.
It is now most interesting to follow the discussion about social business design and to find many similar perspectives.
Simultaneously with The Power of Pull, a warmly recommended read, I have been re-reading older European research about business process design (pdf), written by two Swiss gentlemen Elgar Fleisch and Hubert Österle. Already eighteen years ago (!) in 1993 they created an interesting concept of Integration Area that refers to organizational processes which are characterized by high dependency, and therefore require a high degree of coordination.
They discuss the complexity of inter-organizational networking which is associated with human interaction, organization structure, and the culture. In order to reduce this complexity, Fleisch and Österle presented the Coordination Areas. The five coordination areas that are highly dependent of each other are: Supply Chain Management, Relationship Management, Innovation, Infrastructure, and Organization Development.
Feb 15
Social Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, ready for the Social Business?
Supertramp album from 1975 – Photo by me
I recently found my old thesis, and yes, some of its topics and content are (still) relevant, as this one: the evolution of organization and work structures. The very same topic Esko Kilpi is researching. The discussion in my old thesis and Esko’s blog posts inspire me to learn more about this topic.
One chapter in my thesis starts with a quote by Michael Porter:
“Industries are profitable not because they are sexy or high tech; they are profitable only if their structures are attractive.”
Well put. Many industries and organizations are trying to score right under the constant change requiring new type of more adaptable structures. The development has been very rapid and raises increased demand for choice, chance, change and flexibility.
