A brief but striking analysis on [tag-ice]productivity[/tag-ice] losses in big companies. “[...] when you triple the number of employees, you halve their productivity” - that’s something. Based on that it’s quite clear to focus on communication and the sociability of knowledge when you grow and are big already.

The 3/2 rule of employee productivity
I think it is largely down to communications: the degree to which a vision is shared and the effective dissemination of new ideas ideas and working practices. Innovation velocity is dependent on collaboration; and collaboration among larger groups and creation networks require different skills and tools than what most executives are used to from smaller situations and is therefore often underestimated.

At e-week you’ll find an enlightening article on the benefits of using RSS instead of email for efficient communication especially within a business context.

RSS Offers Relief from Enterprise E-Mail Overload: ‘Even though it’s a consumer-driven technology, it may have more benefit for a company than for an individual user. It helps streamline existing forms of communication, so a company will see benefit right away,’ said Oliver Young, an analyst at Forrester Research.

I’m very happy to attend a high-level workshop on innovation and competitive advantage with Eric van Hippel and Pankaj Ghemawat.

I’m very curious not only to meet these guys but also to relate my work on [tag-tec enterprise software]enterprise (social) software[/tag-tec] to stratgies of [tag-ice]innovation[/tag-ice] and competitivness.

It’s part of the ambitious business conference com.sult 07 in Vienna.

Fine compilation on what makes a knowledge worker (t d f) work. The conclusion reminds me of the philosophy classes I took years ago: everything is mediated, which means there is no difference between the head and the tools. The concept of the head (brain) and it’s inner workings is tool-like.

What Knowledge Work is about: “But if we just think of ourselves preparing a report or writing a text, our work includes constant switching between modes and creation is not only taking place on our computers or with a writing pen, but is happening almost constantly in our head.”
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