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SAMOS – How To Evaluate Disruptive Innovation

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One of the unintended consequences of distributed computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is that things get more complicated. Like many solutions, Nutanix converges “storage,” “compute” & virtualization. In addition to storage, compute, and virtualization, they converged, DNS, DHCP and their own hypervisor.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: The virtuous cycle of the Gift Economy

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Another potential flaw of the extreme Gift Economy model is the relative loose definition of an individual’s “needs”. Now, if you assume that most people will face a similar issue for a specific need within the communities (virtual or not) they are part of, wouldn’t we end up with a capitalist-like spiral again?

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: “Break the Mould”

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Until you expand your definition of your market you will not be able to expand the possibilities of your offer.”[…] ‘Through a qualitative process of market exploration, companies can begin to look at their industry and business through a new set of lenses. Currently interim IT Director for Matches Fashion.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: Open question: What does a flatter World mean in terms of organizational Knowledge Management?

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

In such a World, it is clear that the span of influence of each individual is virtually the entire World. The key value-adding differentiator for individuals is their specific knowledge (as the sum of their skills, competences and experiences, modulated by their interpersonal qualities and cultural background).

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: Questions to Verna Allee on how to start a Value Networks analysis

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

You can use VNA at virtually every level from shop floor (example Mayo Clinic looking at how to reduce scheduling time for a procedure) to business unit level (exampel AT&T getting ready for a product launch) to business webs (the eBay value network) or at the macro economic level as we already mentioned.