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- So many management concepts! Smoking or non smoking management concepts? I really like this one ! Remind me an old chart about management concepts life cycle... - A good manager has surely to be stress tolerant , have to feed his curiosity , ... In daily life, some nice vizualization tools can help him (look at the demos...) Ignorance is his basic state. Can Artificial intelligence , this prothesis to natural ignorance help him? ( "Before we work on artificial intelligence why don ...

- Just found a good new book about KM and performance manager. It examines the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions and suggestions for 42 decisions areas, taking into account the need to understand your data, but also plan and monitor performance. - One way to start KM in an organization is to consider it as a service - KM often needs technology, what do you do in front of that kind of people (good funny story about relatio ...

BPM: Processus, toujours un thème central. Ce séminaire a lieu en Europe pendant tout 2007. Some very nice useful charts , from Gartner, about best of BPM, and a lot of additional charts . Among these, this one about BPM and SOA relation, or another one ... but... what about HOP (Human and Organizational Performance)? Must human problems be treated before technological and organizational problems? Old debate. Is corporate performance depending from good management of management p ...

So many publications mentionning this topic. Does that mean that - nobody understand anything? - there are some unsolved problems in the concept and its application? - it is now just a way for vendors (consultants, gurus, SOA solutions providers, scorecard specialists ) to market - Organizations, in spite of the "official speech", are very very far from that? One of the permanent criticism is that too much governance can kill agility, can kill innovation and adaptation. It is sure th ...

I like this one: MIT's Michael Schrage explains why getting highly relevant results from a search can actually inhibit the iterative process by which we discover and learn. Idea we have about relevance of our search evolves while searching. Creativity can come from that iterative process too: I search something, I am partially dissatisfied of the result, that makes me refocus on new idea about my search, I search again, .... So: If you find what you search immediatly, you stop your brain ! N ...

What's next after still well living silicium ( yes , 45 nanometers... ) to go-on on Moore's law? Photonic computer is one of the opportunities. Telephone still moving: Ultramobile is the keyword. McKinsey (just register!) shows an interesting study about value of mobile phones... Man/machine interface nice evolutions: - Flexible plastics, flexible screens, even flexible RFIDs . Why not become invisible, with flexible screen as clothing and a camera behind you, reprojecting ...

Ultimate and permanent challenge for people, companies, societies is to innovate (to survive?) This week, a lot of point of view on this topic, re-emphasizing some basic evident ideas: First, innovation in IT is often nowadays coming from "transgressive renegades" . Continuous flow of new emerging technologies allows permanently unsatisfied end-user to invent their way. A good IT department must consider/absorb these innovations, considered as valid prototypes, and to transform them ...

Très bonne synthèse des nouveautés technologiques de ce salon....