Material for thought
Posted in innovation, strategy on Jan 17th, 2010
Massive corporations will always be more opaque for their employees than smaller ones. Working in a small team, you can take the time to learn your colleagues, speak with them about the projects, understand the motivations behind every decision. It is impossible to do the same in a company employing thousands of people. Most of [...]
Posted in philosophy, strategy on Nov 16th, 2009
In recent researches I have made about Ethnography, I read that it is important to “recognize the human capacity to spin, twist, turn, invent, tangle, tear and live by, through, and between symbolic meanings” [Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research by Patricia L. Sunderland and Rita M. Denny]. Cultural symbols and signs used in things such [...]
Posted in philosophy, strategy on Aug 18th, 2009
Two unique events about political philosophy are starting this September: The Paris freedom fest 2009 (mostly in English with some lectures in French) and the Philo and Management 2009 – 2010 seminars in Brussels (French only). Even if the two events are based on very different approaches and might actually follow two opposite directions, they [...]
Posted in strategy on Jun 7th, 2009
If you are interested in strategic thinking, look at the lecture of Nina Simon at the Smithsonian. It is a long video but I think it encompasses many important subjects: how to use tools such as twitter to make an ethnographic study of your audience, what are the best practices to define the mission statement [...]
Posted in strategy on Mar 17th, 2009
Both crowdsourcing and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are fashionable these days. Here is their definition: “Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.” Somehow dubious video from the [...]
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