In past blogs I talked about the need for organizations operating in today’s complex economy to maximize their efficiency while simultaneously exploring new opportunities and inventing new possibilities. This massive juggling act for organizational leaders demands these two streams of…
While the term ‘generation gap’ often engenders negative relations between age groups, I propose a more constructive way of utilizing each group’s specialized skills. A generation gap is defined as a difference in values and attitudes between one generation and…
As someone who is not trained in the physical sciences, I struggled with what name to give this very important trend. Should I call it an environment or ecology continuum? When I looked at the two sets of definitions below…
Today we can no longer just tweak old skill sets and behaviours to optimize our performance because the challenges presented to us are of a new character. Furthermore, reframing our assumptions and beliefs systems, although additive, is not going to…
In 2000, Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson introduced us to three distinct cultures co-existing in the U.S. and Western Europe whose distinctions were based on values. The “Moderns” who value money and success tipped in at 50% of the population. …
So much of our human experience in the new millennium is attributed to the rapid pace of change brought about by both the industrial and technological revolutions of the past century. There is no doubt of their significant impact on…
For most of my professional career, I willingly set aside three to five days a year to meet with my STS-RT (Socio-technical Systems Roundtable) colleagues. The STS-RT is a “global network of business leaders, action researchers, trade unionists, academics, managers…
Continuing my investigation of paradoxes and paradigms, today I write about culture as the third of ten paradigms from the past. My theory is these paradigms are currently presenting as paradoxes or contradictions which are significantly influencing our behaviour and…
The Business Technology Management group on LinkedIn recently posted an Amazon review of The Power of Convergence: Linking Business Strategies and Technology Decisions to Create Sustainable Success (Hoque, F., L. Walsh, D. L. Mirakaj, & J. Bruckner (2011). As an…
Last week I committed to writing about the global trends futurists consider when studying humanities’ ways of seeing and being in the world. For each global trend, we look for its pattern of behaviour as well as its anticipated direction…
In the spirit of collaboration, currently I am developing a global trends model titled From Paradigms to Paradoxes. A paradigm is a typical pattern, model or worldview of a particular subject. For example, when considering the subject of motivation, we…
Several years ago, I began a consulting journey integrating IT systems with social and business systems. I could see the “writing on the wall.” As participants in today’s economy, the majority of us are knowledge workers. In essence, we…
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