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" CIPD Change Agenda paper including case studies from NHS, Royal Bank of Scotland, PWC and IBM. "

" Report presenting the major findings of of a March 2009 Deloitte Survey looks at how Talent tactics and strategies have changed since their January 2009 survey."

I set up this website in order to experiment with the emerging Semantic Web and Linked Data Web. I'm not really interested (at this stage) in creating a pretty website so please forgive the amateurish look of these pages. Maybe I'll change this with time, but for now I'm more interesting in what's going on under the bonnet and for now it's all about the RDF. These pages are best viewed in Firefox. To get the most from these pages there are a number of addons you can install to transform your web browswer into a semantic web browser: Semantic Radar - a simple plugin that detects semantic web technologies on a webpage Operator - lets you do cool stuff with microformats and RDFa Tabulator - a neat way to browse RDF and linked data on the semantic web OpenLink Data Explorer - another data browser for the semantic web Welcome, and enjoy... Feedback Diigo Web Highlighter (v1.6.2.4)  Highlight     Bookmark   Sticky Note Share Save Bookmark Url Title PrivateRead laterCache Description Tags Loading recommended tags... Add to a List Share to a Group Share my existing annotations

Public collaboration, network effects, crowdsourcing - call it what you will, the read/write web is based largely on projects where the value of the whole is greater than the sum of countless parts. Those parts are contributed by individual people all over the world, often for free. It's world-changing stuff, but can businesses make effective use of this paradigm?

An example of how the different viewpoints can provide the depth to Twitter. This is a squidoo lens that someone has created by collating and organising the tweets around a certain hashtag - in this case #HackEdu - a conference about how education is changing.

Video from a series of events at British Council looking at 'How we learn' this video is one session where Sam Conniff looks at the difference in the world of learning and education. He talks about the 'sharing economy' bring the largest growing market in the works and then changes technology is having on what we teach in schools worldwide, including the fact that 70% of all on-one content is video, making the creation of content closer to the user. Highlighting the top things people learning on-line using the search 'how to...' Play in instrument, learn a language and write code.Sam also explores the notion of 'Learning how to learn', 'being connected to the internet everywhere', & 'transparency' and how these will change Education & how we will need to interact in a more ethical way (26:40 - 43:00) 

A great example of AI in action is on Wall Street, where traders and bankers are being slowly replaced with machines. Wall Street is now a lot more sedate and well behaved. Investment decisions and trades are based on algorithms, statistics and trends, rather than prevailing human emotion or gut instinct. Is this is a good thing or bad?

it took decades for saddle makers and carriage builders to adjust to the disruptive rise of the automobile. In contrast, travel agents had less than five years to rechart their careers after Expedia, Orbitz and other travel sites took hold. Financial planners? Mammography technicians? Once the software programmers get their algorithms right, these and many other jobs could disappear or change very in the relative blink of an eye.

Toby Walsh, an academic and artificial intelligence expert, believes AI will recalibrate our world and its certainties in the next few decades. As with all the best bits of futurology, it does come with a warning.

Today we face an entirely new environment for innovation and getting things done. The days of the lone genius quietly toiling away in pursuit of that 'Eureka' moment to revolutionise an industry are all but over. We are now in the days of asking and listening to our customers and working with them in our innovation cycles. Innovation demands collaboration. So does production. In the past we could focus on a single task in an assembly-line fashion, handing our completed activity to the next person who would in turn do the same, until the job was finished. Now the jobs change fast, requiring learning new skills rather than merely repeating the old. We have to seek out people who have other pieces of the puzzle and work with them to tackle increasingly complex issues at a much faster pace.

Recommended by Susannah Clements at winter workshop

"From an excerpt form a recent book by Chip Heath "

"The Innovation Maturity Map from Think For A Change, LLC could stimulate some intersting conversations. For example, the progress across each row seems reasonable but are the attributes at each Level consistent?" Christopher Dean

A different sort of maturity model specifically for Innovation