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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Organization 2.0 ....
Today was a big day for me; the day I had my first session as LSE tutor.
It was the first out of 13 sessions about "How Social Media Can drive modern Business Development". The audience was 36 people, young, ambitious, hungry, aggressive young people ready to take from, to kill me with their questions and of course to act and interact with me.
To get and gain knowledge is a really alive game, role game for me; to drive a class is such a huge challenge, like driving a air carrier through a coral zone; no damages are allowed, no misleads, no mistakes.
The route is demanding, the crew is the best but only in best confident hands.
The first lesson was about Social Media and our senses, about the anatomy of an Organization in our 2.0 times.
A modern organization nowadays can be easily compared to a body where:
Skeleton
In order for an organization to function, it needs a skeleton consisting of automated real-time processes. Operative technologies are designed to run certain tasks or parts of business processes to remove friction from organizational functions. The results can be seen in systems like shared calendars, ERPs, bug repositories, CRMs and other operative systems designed for managing certain business processes.
Senses
Nowadays an organization needs to work outside-in rather than inside-out to align the business with markets. You need a way to sense what’s going on outside of your immediate vicinity. As an organization your ability to turn information and weak signals into actionable knowledge is directly proportional to the ability of your employees to make sense what’s going on.
Various tools provide a place for reflection in and on action. You need some kind of tools to draw ideas into your organization from the fringes.
Tools like blogs, microblogs, presence tools, social bookmarking etc. provide new ways to create meaningful stories that are relevant to your organization.
Nervous system
Now that you have something to sense about, you also need to get the signals flowing inside your organization. You need digital tools that connect various resources, services and information together and enable personalization on individual basis. RSS feeds, various search functions and interfaces like APIs provide means for turning on the nervous system of your organization. Each department, individual, project etc. needs to have some access point for others to tap into.
Brain
Now that you have a fully functioning network signaling ideas from the trenches, you need a way to sort out the meaningful stuff, remix various resources and crystallize new ideas. Tools like wikis, tagging, data mining, qualitative analysis etc. provide a rich collective breeding ground for a fully working organizational brain.
It should be based on an associative network structure, rather than a hierarchical tree structure. Just like the human brain, your organization has information that is evolving all the time. Ideas are connecting and blending with new information, the network structure gets denser in certain parts over time and weakens in others.
Your organizational memory is the primary place for synthesizing reflections.
Blood system
A fully working body is useless without a life force.
That’s why you need to get the blood flowing and making sure that your organization is not getting any heart attacks or blood clots. This is obviously based on human interaction and making sure that the conversation is flowing all the time in various different ways. You can optimize the interaction flow by utilizing social networking tools and real-time communications.
This includes semi-syn chronic (e.g. chat) and syn chronic communication tools (e.g. instant messaging and virtual conferencing).
You can use social network analysis tools to discover and fix architectural problems in your human network.
Muscles
One thing that was left out is muscles. Muscles in an organization is money. Small companies may have small muscles and be very agile and fast moving.
Large enterprises have huge muscles but are slow and cumbersome. Another analogy that works here could be fuel for the body, like food or water.
It was the first out of 13 sessions about "How Social Media Can drive modern Business Development". The audience was 36 people, young, ambitious, hungry, aggressive young people ready to take from, to kill me with their questions and of course to act and interact with me.
To get and gain knowledge is a really alive game, role game for me; to drive a class is such a huge challenge, like driving a air carrier through a coral zone; no damages are allowed, no misleads, no mistakes.
The route is demanding, the crew is the best but only in best confident hands.
The first lesson was about Social Media and our senses, about the anatomy of an Organization in our 2.0 times.
A modern organization nowadays can be easily compared to a body where:
Skeleton
In order for an organization to function, it needs a skeleton consisting of automated real-time processes. Operative technologies are designed to run certain tasks or parts of business processes to remove friction from organizational functions. The results can be seen in systems like shared calendars, ERPs, bug repositories, CRMs and other operative systems designed for managing certain business processes.
Senses
Nowadays an organization needs to work outside-in rather than inside-out to align the business with markets. You need a way to sense what’s going on outside of your immediate vicinity. As an organization your ability to turn information and weak signals into actionable knowledge is directly proportional to the ability of your employees to make sense what’s going on.
Various tools provide a place for reflection in and on action. You need some kind of tools to draw ideas into your organization from the fringes.
Tools like blogs, microblogs, presence tools, social bookmarking etc. provide new ways to create meaningful stories that are relevant to your organization.
Nervous system
Now that you have something to sense about, you also need to get the signals flowing inside your organization. You need digital tools that connect various resources, services and information together and enable personalization on individual basis. RSS feeds, various search functions and interfaces like APIs provide means for turning on the nervous system of your organization. Each department, individual, project etc. needs to have some access point for others to tap into.
Brain
Now that you have a fully functioning network signaling ideas from the trenches, you need a way to sort out the meaningful stuff, remix various resources and crystallize new ideas. Tools like wikis, tagging, data mining, qualitative analysis etc. provide a rich collective breeding ground for a fully working organizational brain.
It should be based on an associative network structure, rather than a hierarchical tree structure. Just like the human brain, your organization has information that is evolving all the time. Ideas are connecting and blending with new information, the network structure gets denser in certain parts over time and weakens in others.
Your organizational memory is the primary place for synthesizing reflections.
Blood system
A fully working body is useless without a life force.
That’s why you need to get the blood flowing and making sure that your organization is not getting any heart attacks or blood clots. This is obviously based on human interaction and making sure that the conversation is flowing all the time in various different ways. You can optimize the interaction flow by utilizing social networking tools and real-time communications.
This includes semi-syn chronic (e.g. chat) and syn chronic communication tools (e.g. instant messaging and virtual conferencing).
You can use social network analysis tools to discover and fix architectural problems in your human network.
Muscles
One thing that was left out is muscles. Muscles in an organization is money. Small companies may have small muscles and be very agile and fast moving.
Large enterprises have huge muscles but are slow and cumbersome. Another analogy that works here could be fuel for the body, like food or water.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
getting wired is freedom!
It’s impressive to observe how things change the last few weeks.
It’s completely interesting to know that everything goes fast; everything goes transparent because there is someone pushes to that direction, everything changes because it can.
What we live is, what means interaction on internet, what means social media, what means spreading information changes and takes a road which is out of classic rules. People and organizations had the control over news lose it now; politicians don’t know anymore what to do and how to do it about controlling things, new information channels get public, people share knowledge, images, video and everything goes faster, easier, safer, freer.
People have to get wired if they want to be free; to do things without reporting to someone had the control.
Freedom is to get everything, to choose what you like to know, to follow people who have something to say, it means something and is important to you, to be followed by people you are interested in.
The most amazing in the whole story is that we have the right to choose anymore; to choose how to be expressed and how to express ourselves. We don’t need approvals; we don’t need someone’s kick to do something, to step forward.
It’s great that everyone has a brand, we are no longer anybody, not a mess but we have a brand to work on it, to promote it. People judge us for what we have to say, what we can share, the most important is to share, not to keep things under protection.
Closed areas, teams, places, ideas, locked ideas, locked packages just die, shared things, creatively shared things get alive, get stronger. Things which get wired get global.
My opinion, your opinion isn’t any longer just an ocean’s drop but something valuable, something which pushes things forward.
Our days get creative because they push us to be creative, productive. What we can what we are able to share, willing to share, want to give, spread out there, doesn’t have to be perfect, doesn’t have to be artistic.
Sharing and spreading is the perfection. People who share things gain respect, people who give without threatening with punishments or rapping for using something, gain respect, step forward.
The most important is to give, to make things get wired, to travel fast, everywhere, without restrictions but with creativity.
It’s in our hands how to manage our personal brand, how to build the brand make us known out there.
/ga
It’s completely interesting to know that everything goes fast; everything goes transparent because there is someone pushes to that direction, everything changes because it can.
What we live is, what means interaction on internet, what means social media, what means spreading information changes and takes a road which is out of classic rules. People and organizations had the control over news lose it now; politicians don’t know anymore what to do and how to do it about controlling things, new information channels get public, people share knowledge, images, video and everything goes faster, easier, safer, freer.
People have to get wired if they want to be free; to do things without reporting to someone had the control.
Freedom is to get everything, to choose what you like to know, to follow people who have something to say, it means something and is important to you, to be followed by people you are interested in.
The most amazing in the whole story is that we have the right to choose anymore; to choose how to be expressed and how to express ourselves. We don’t need approvals; we don’t need someone’s kick to do something, to step forward.
It’s great that everyone has a brand, we are no longer anybody, not a mess but we have a brand to work on it, to promote it. People judge us for what we have to say, what we can share, the most important is to share, not to keep things under protection.
Closed areas, teams, places, ideas, locked ideas, locked packages just die, shared things, creatively shared things get alive, get stronger. Things which get wired get global.
My opinion, your opinion isn’t any longer just an ocean’s drop but something valuable, something which pushes things forward.
Our days get creative because they push us to be creative, productive. What we can what we are able to share, willing to share, want to give, spread out there, doesn’t have to be perfect, doesn’t have to be artistic.
Sharing and spreading is the perfection. People who share things gain respect, people who give without threatening with punishments or rapping for using something, gain respect, step forward.
The most important is to give, to make things get wired, to travel fast, everywhere, without restrictions but with creativity.
It’s in our hands how to manage our personal brand, how to build the brand make us known out there.
/ga
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