Posts Tagged ‘Complexity’
Data, Information, Content and Complexity
Friday, August 6th, 2010 by Martin Jacobsen
Two days ago, at the Techonomy conference in California, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed something we find truly astonishing: for every two days we create as much information as we did up to 2003.
Take a few seconds to embrace that fact.
Through all of mankind’s history, we have told stories, shared knowledge, sought information and written down elements of everyday life, history and science. Today, it takes mankind only two days to produce just as much information as we did through all of history up to 2003. That is truly fascinating.
And how do we manage to produce all this information and content? Well, according to Eric Schmidt, it all comes down to user-generated content. And with more than 500 million Facebook profiles, millions of blogs, Twitter-accounts, YouTube profiles and the like, there’s a solid foundation for the creation of an abundance of information and content. On a side note, Google’s book cataloguing project, Google Books, have calculated that there’s around 129,864,880 books in the world.
The result of these incomprehensible amounts of data? Complexity. Just imagine the time spent on creating all this content, the massive quantity of servers making it possible – let alone the possibilities we have created for doing… well, everything whilst being online. And, not to forget, the challenges created for people, professionals and companies. That’s complexity.
Tags: Complexity, Data, Information
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Is this shift for real? Even fundamental?
Thursday, April 1st, 2010 by Hans Henrik H. Heming
In 2008 I went to a course on Complexity, Knowledge Management and future Innovation – gosh it was interesting. Maybe you already know Dave Snowden – a real thought-leader in that specific field. And he knows…
Nevertheless Dave and Cognitive Edge is on the track of something “new” and VERY interesting. The Cynefin-framework is outstanding when it comes to some sort of explanation of what is happening in the intersection between traditionel Knowledge Management, Technology and future growth and Innovation. As a true believer in proper use of Social Technologies – aka Web2.0 – internally in companies, I strongly believe that the flow of information between people is THE way to enhance innovation capacity, not by putting everything into a rigid data structure on a server.
Dave describes the development by setting up opposites:
MOVING FROM
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MOVING TO
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Interesting – we see that every day and try to advice our clients to move away from the old paradigm of thinking. It’s a tough call, a mental journey for most people.
Last week I was educated as a Accredited Practitioner in The Cynefin framework and I would love to have a conversation with you on how to cope with complexity in an internal organizational setting an still manage to make positive bottom lines.
If you are interested in further reading – and in Dave Snowden’ thoughts – you may be interested in these podcasts:
KM Australia 2007 Keynote
Jon Husband interview with Dave Snowden on Web 2.0
KM World 2007
KM Asia 2007 Keynote
Oil & Gas Exchange Houston September 2007
or the blogsposts:
Reporting on sin…
sense-making & path-finding
Safe-fail probes
Whence goeth KM?
Natural numbers, networks & communities
Volunteer not conscript
If the world is flat, seek out the bumpy bits
Good judgement comes from experiences. Experience comes from bad judgement
Confusing story telling with narrative
How to you see the challenges in management of today – is the cure to find in the books written around the time of the industrial revolution or is there by any chance new insights hidden in areas where we haven’t looked, yet? What do you think, and which implications does that have on our view on how to conceive business and companies?
Tags: Complexity, paradigmshift
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