McKinsey conversations with global leaders: John Chambers of Cisco
The CEO and chairman of Cisco Systems explores approaches to decentralized management and leadership and also offers perspective on the future of Web technology and the opportunity that an economic downturn provides for strategically minded companies.
Honda’s New CEO Is Also Chief Innovator
BusinessWeek: In an effort to stem its global slide, Honda introduces veteran engineer and R&D head Takanobu Ito to lead the automobile company.
Radical Paradigm Shifts
This great cartoon was posted on Facebook yesterday – creator unknown. Something to laugh and seriously reflect about.
Vodafone is taking the lead
As one of the first Telecom companies, Vodafone is trying to open up and take a big leap towards Enterprise 2.0 design. They streamed their last press conference, announcing their new „Generation Upload“ marketing campaign, into the net, allowing users to leave more than 2100 live comments.
Lot’s of cheering, but also very critical voices. Thumbs up for Vodafone to take this brave step and start learning.
I just met another large company today who told me that they decided against a social networking feature on their new web portal because they were fearing negative customer response and bad public reputation. Dealing with this topic requires a lot of thinking and careful planning – but you need to realize, that you are heavily loosing speed compared to new radicals who grew up online and see crowd sourcing and communities as an opportunity, not a threat. Start learning now!
Google Chrome OS
On it’s blog Google announced a new Operating System as an extension of it’s Chrome Browser – fast, simple, secure – based on open source.
The community’s opinion is polarized:
A) Finally the market for Operating Systems increases in dynamics again and products become more user friendly.
B) Google on it’s way to total digital control.
In any case, a lot of implications and scenarios to be seen.
We will be visiting Google Headquarters in Mountain View again this October.
Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen
Hans Rosling, doctor, researcher and global health professor, is looking at some of the world’s most important statistics in a very exciting way.
How can enterprises leverage the Future Internet?
FUTURE CAPPUCCINO is an ‘invitation only’ breakfast club which explores how enterprises can leverage the Future Internet.
AIMS
- Specialist business think tank regarding Future Internet for enterprises
- Learning & international knowledge exchange with a strong business focus
- Collaboration with international experts in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Turkey, Ireland, UK, US
Join the online discussion group on Facebook and follow us on Twitter (futurecap).
Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity
A while ago I met Ray Kurzweil on a conference in Interlaken, Switzerland, and I was fascinated when talking to him about technology. Watch his great speech at TED Talks about singularity.
Obama’s Government 2.0 Approach
During his campaign for US presidency, Barack Obama has shown that he understands the smart use of Web 2.0 technologies when he was mobilizing millions of followers by using Twitter as a powerful communication platform. Since then his administration keeps pushing the use of all kinds Web 2.0 technologies in government context. Vivek Kundra, recently assigned Chief Information Officer of the Obama administration, invited the public to make sensible use of government data when launching Data.gov. The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
Tim O’Reilly, known for coining the term „Web 2.0″, Google and the Sunlight Foundation called for the „Apps for America“ prize in order to push the development of Data.gov mash-ups.
The Internet has changed our private lifes, it just started to change the way corporates do business and it is turning whole industries upside down. It will be interesting to watch how it will change the way we experience politics and public administration – for sure in ways we can’t even imagine today.
Florian M. Stieger
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