Future of work

"Today, Owyang-who is so enthusiastic about the notion that he left Altimeter to found Crowd Companies, which focuses exclusively on the trend-released the first noteworthy research into the state of the collaborative economy. If I hadn't been convinced of the significance of this trend, "Sharing is the New Buying" would have pushed me over the edge. (Late last year, Neville Hobson and I interviewed Jeremiah about his new venture for our podcast. You can hear the interview here.)"

"What do all these products have in common? They have been victims of big bang disruption, as Larry Downes and Paul Nunes explain in their stimulating new book, Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation (Penguin, 2014). Big bang disruption is large-scale fast-paced innovation that can disrupt stable businesses very rapidly. The strength of the book is to document what is known about the ongoing phenomenon of fast-paced large-scale disruption and the book gives many vivid examples. The book is less compelling in terms of what businesses should do about the problem in part because the writing is marred by the occasional overstatement and in part because big bang disruption is itself merely a symptom of a deeper economic phase change that is transforming the global economy."

Stigmergy 3.0: From ants to economies

Thorough overview of Stigmergy as an coordination principle.