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Vahid Masrour

Experimentation Is The New Planning | Fast Company - 1 views

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    Emergent strategy. Sounds to disorganized to be effective, but top-down structure doesn't work either. So there.
Vahid Masrour

Keynote: Dave Gray & The Connected Company on the New Livestream. Live. Redefined. - 1 views

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    David Gray starts talking at around 10:00 Services co-evolve in the dialogue with the customers Efficiency (orderly processes) versus Flexibility (adaptability to the market). Tight coupling (formal classic inflexible org design) versus Loose coupling (easily change components' locations, autonomous locations, holographic design: "pods") Loose coupling implies lower consistency. "podular company" "composability" Trains versus cars How does that proposal scale? By creating a shared platform, and then having each pod do its thing.
Vahid Masrour

The Power of Pull | Cause Conversations - 0 views

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    John Seely Brown interview
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Technological change: The last Kodak moment? | The Economist - 0 views

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    creative destruction example
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Quand un patron indien renverse les règles - LeMonde.fr - 0 views

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    les employés d'abord!
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Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    replace planning with coordination replace management with collaborative/cooperative infrastructure para&&& distribution: a few contribute a lot, most contribute very little (80-20 rule) There are other ways to organize than just institutions. mass amateurization killed professional publishing
Vahid Masrour

The Collapse of Complex Business Models « Clay Shirky - 0 views

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    GREAT READ. Thanks to the author.
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The End of Management - WSJ.com - 2 views

  • They were an answer to the challenge of organizing thousands of people in different places and with different skills to perform large and complex tasks, like building automobiles or providing nationwide telephone service
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      Creating a formal organization was key at the time. Creating the formal organization is easier now, thanks to better means for coordinating action: you still need a network of committed people, but not the formality.
  • They were designed and tasked, not with reinforcing market forces, but with supplanting and even resisting the market
  • Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma
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  • They listened closely to their customers. They carefully studied market trends. They allocated capital to the innovations that promised the largest returns. And in the process, they missed disruptive innovations that opened up new customers and markets for lower-margin, blockbuster products.
  • the ability of human beings on different continents and with vastly different skills and interests to work together and coordinate complex tasks has taken quantum leaps.
  • We have both a need and an opportunity to devise a new form of economic organization, and a new science of management, that can deal with the breakneck realities of 21st century change.
  • the even bigger challenge of creating structures that motivate and inspire workers
  • It will have to push power and decision-making down the organization as much as possible, rather than leave it concentrated at the top
  • Traditional bureaucratic structures will have to be replaced with something more like ad-hoc teams of peers, who come together to tackle individual projects, and then disband
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