The Network Roundtable is officially launched! Tom Davenport hosted Rob Cross’s kickoff today at Babson. Forty-five companies have signed on; there were people from 10 additional companies attending as guests. We’ll have to wait to see the votes tabulated to see how many want to work on the “ONA and large-scale organizational change” research topic [...]

Thursday was a busy day. In the morning I presented a webinar to 60+ people in HP, the primary audience being the enterprise solution architects community. My former colleague Leo Laverdure, who has had a long-standing interest in complexity and evolutionary architecture, invited me to speak. I was able to cover the basics of Cynefin [...]

Valdis Krebs has just started his “Star” stint on AOK (Association of Knowledge Work). (You may have to sign up for AOK if you are not a member already.) He is collecting stories of how networking practices (or lack thereof) reveal whether companies (organizations, the US Intelligence agency) are smart or stupid. I expect it [...]

A former Digital/Compaq colleague, Bob Fleischer sent me a link to Jyri Engeström’s blog entry, Why some social network services work and others don’t — Or: the case for object-centered sociality, which provides an interesting perspective on what’s working and what’s not working in social network software and applications. He contrasts two views of social [...]

Thomas Friedman’s new book, The World is Flat, has just been published. I’ve admired his analysis for many years, as he is one of those people who can help us make sense of large global political and economic trends. I haven’t read the book (yet) but was pointed to this article in the NY [...]