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The Vital Edge
Disruptively good business for world-changing companies and the humans who build them.The Alchemy of Change is no longer active, but its spirit lives on at The Vital Edge.
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The Soulful Company
TEDx talk on The Soulful Company
Category Archive: Permeability & Networks
Klout, Influence, and the Future of Business
Klout helps companies better understand the influence of employees and customers, and this opens the firm more fully to the outside world. Despite its many problems, Klout not only symbolizes the growing importance of influence in marketing, but the increasingly permeable nature of the firm.
Week in Review: May 14, 2012
Four mini-posts on: Google’s new ‘knowledge graph” and the semantic web, the sad story of Flickr (and CarPoint), why Justin Bieber has a higher Klout score than President Obama, and the future of market research. Phew…
Week in Review: May 7, 2012
Three interesting articles: focusing on market efficiency, governance, and a high-tech evolution of the old trading company.
Quiznos and the Old Business Model
The Quiznos near-bankruptcy highlights the dangers of the old model for running business networks: one that uses outsourcing of value creation in an exploitive fashion.
Social Networks and the Renaissance of Local News
The new economics of local news distribution rests on linking and networking behavior, and that requires a whole new type of relationship with readers – one that treats them less like passive consumers and more like proactive partners in disseminating news.
Influence: the Flip Side of Permeability
Part 3 of 4: Doing effective influence mapping isn’t easy, just as creating effective geographic maps isn’t easy. To be useful, the map needs to describe the actual terrain – and for that, you need people who understand how the decisions that impact your desired outcome actually get made. Not how you wish they get made, …
The Biology of Great Organizations
The boundary between what’s inside and what’s outside the firm is the future of organizational strategy.
