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"The Center for the Edge, part of Deloitte LLP, helps senior executives make sense of and profit from emerging opportunities on the edge of business and technology. What is created on the edge of the competitive landscape-in terms of technology, geography, demographics, markets-inevitably strikes at the very heart of a business. Our mission is to identify and explore emerging opportunities related to big shifts that aren't yet on the senior management agenda, but ought to be. While we're focused on long-term trends and opportunities, we are equally focused on implications for near-term action, the day-to-day environment of executives."

Von der Facebook-Gruppe in den Buchhandel - ein Business-Modell in der New World of Work

„Creative Work - Business der Zukunft" nennen Imke Keicher und Kirsten Brühl vom Zukunftsinstitut ihre aktuelle Studie über den Wandel der Arbeitswelt. Sie untersucht Ursachen und Chancen.

Studie: Kreativarbeiter ohne Festanstellung brauchen Ruhe und Inspiration / Quadratisch-praktische Business-Hotelräume sind Energiekiller

"Here at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner director of global research Peter Sondergaard warned conference attendees that the impact of consumerization is the single most significant trend that will impact IT over the next 10 years. "We stand at the foot of a new high tide" said Sondergaard. "There is a shift in technology ownership.""

All three technologies are well served by the growing number of high-bandwidth IP networks being used to carry communications in the enterprise, and by the growing maturity of the SIP standard; all support the new way of doing business in the global economy; and all offer significant productivity and ROI benefits. Which raises the question: If each technology is valuable alone, wouldn't they be even better together?

Karim Lakhani is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School's Technology and Operations Management Unit. He is a serious scholar of crowdsourcing, trying to build theories of if, how and why it works. In the past he's also written on open source theory and innovation, including articles about Wikipedia and open source science Read More http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/07/academics_crowdsourcing?currentPage=1#ixzz13N4ZOVu0

"Was treibt Sie eigentlich in Ihrer Eigenschaft als Vorstandssprecher des Microsoft Business User Forum (mbuf) um?"

Ein Grund für den Wahlsieg von Barack Obama war dessen Social-Media-gestützte Wahlkampagne.

Time Magazine 2012 article on hierarcy, role of ledership at work

"Yoga, meditation, 'mindfulness' - why some of the west's biggest companies are embracing eastern spirituality "

Data governance is an approach that can help organizations to more effectively manage, protect, and use the growing volume of personal information, intellectual property, and other confidential data in their possession. A strong data governance program may also reduce IT costs, improve the quality of data, and shorten response time to meet compliance requirements.

Top Ten Technology Trends 2010

"Four Generations - One Workplace -- Can We All Work Together?"

"Over the past few years, organizations have opened their electronic doors to partners, suppliers, and customers. At the same time, an influx of young, tech-savvy workers is having a tremendous impact on companies and their IT organizations. They enter the workforce with tremendous energy and new ideas, but lso with their own set of preferred tools and applications-from obile devices and laptops to social networking tools."