Cathexis

Crash course in design thinking - an immersive afternoon at the Stanford d.school

2012-02-08T12:27:53-08:00

If you're like many people working in businesses or organizations, you might find that you spend most of your days behind a desk, in front of a computer, attending a somewhat endless array of meetings, working through agenda and actions...

Merced Group welcomes Bill Ives

2012-01-16T09:49:45-08:00

Social business is growing in impact and potential so it's with great pleasure that I announce today that Merced Group is growing too, with Bill Ives now partnering with me. Merced Group provides business strategy, program design, and implementation services...

The City is Experienced on Our Feet - Social Business as the Urban Planning of Enterprise 2.0

2011-11-18T08:28:02-08:00

If you're lucky, there's sometimes a moment of clarity and fresh thinking to be had in the sweep of the typical business conference, and the panel "What Urban Planning Can Teach Us About Social Business Design" on Wednesday morning at...

Enterprise 2.0 - Social Business Focus

2011-11-14T22:06:41-08:00

Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara opened today and the conference focus has moved from 'collaboration' a couple of years ago to now 'building social business.' Here's some important perspectives on productivity and business leverage from social that will be highlighted in...

How do we understand community and collaboration value?

2011-10-30T09:53:03-07:00

In trying to assess the impact of social and collaborative engagement it's easy to get lost in the minutae of analytics without stepping back and thinking about the context for value assessment. Having that value context is important to be...

Information Overload – Costly to You, to Your Organization, and to the Economy

2011-07-28T17:29:48-07:00

As Jonathan Spira pointed out at a Churchill Club panel yesterday, a knowledge workers’ value in the marketplace is their ability to think and reflect. Spira is the author of the new book, Overload: How Too Much Information is Hazardous...

Leadership Collaboration-Fostering Sustained Dialogue and Connectivity

2011-07-23T09:38:00-07:00

Leaders and executives in organizations, business or expertise domains often face common issues around innovation, global competiveness, unanticipated market disruptors, or policy and regulatory concerns. Companies or institutions wanting to engage and hear from their executive customers or leadership constituency,...

Gen Y and Boomers – Decoding the Generations for Leaders and Managers

2011-07-13T22:16:42-07:00

There’s lots of common folklore about Gen Y – some of it less than positive – i.e., that they have a highly cultivated sense of entitlement and need too much attention. In a knowledge-based workforce relying on effective collaboration, decoding...

Getting to Collaboration: The Executive and the Evangalist

2009-11-03T23:00:37-08:00

This afternoon's Enterprise 2.0 sessions in the main hall were two good bookends to success in collaboration. First, Andrew McAfee moderated a panel, querying Art Fritzson, VP and Walton Smith, Senior Associate at Booz Allen in a terrific session on...

Moving to collaboration - moving the culture at Penn State

2009-11-02T22:16:43-08:00

Sometimes the seemingly small story that has the biggest impact. Bevin Hernandez story of Penn State's outreach organization let us in on some important perspectives about moving an organization to collaboration. Bevin presented today at the end of a morning...