Monthly Archives: March 2007
You’ve got to love this. For those who doubt the power and value of the internet, have a look at the map below, which shows the density of single women across San Francisco, together with their earnings. For example, in Pacific Heights near Alta Plaza Park, more than a third of the residents are single
Research has consistently shown that high-performers – in terms of both career success and contribution to their organizations – have personal networks that are different from others. Observing people’s personal networks is one of the best ways to predict success. Building on ideas and references from an earlier post I made, here are some useful
Continue reading The characteristics of high-performance personal networks
Network analysis provides powerful insights into how social groups, organizations, industries, and economies are structure. More pointedly, it also can help identify the leverage points that will enhance strategic positioning and improve outcomes. Over the last few years of my work in the network space, I have focused primarily on social networks and organizational network
Continue reading Insights from network analysis of the Australian media industry landscape
Maria O’Donovan is a very interesting commentator who is currently doing a Masters in ICT and learning at Aarlborg University in Denmark. She recently interviewed me for her Enabling Spaces blog, and has transcribed our wide-ranging conversation. Things that I discuss in the interview include: • Media as an interstitial phenomenon • Lead consumers and
Continue reading Interview on connecting spaces and our interstitial world
Last night I had a fascinating dream. In some off-street parlour people were being offered a fantastic immersive experience. They could step into a world that would be tailored to them in every way, catering to their interests and tastes, creating what for them would be the most entertaining experience imaginable. And it was entirely
Continue reading Dreaming of new business models for content – may the best one win!
Two pieces of research just out show that the implementation of Web 2.0 in the enterprise is far more than just heady talk – there is already solid investment, and the intention of doing more with these technologies. In via Read/Write Web, Forrester has released the results of a survey of 119 CIOs on their
Continue reading Web 2.0 in the enterprise is far more than just talk
I recently pointed to the launch of the second edition of Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships, including the free download of Chapter 1 of the book. Following on from this, the other free chapter from the book is Chapter 6 – Enhancing Client Relationship Capabilities: Implementing Key Client Programs. Over the last decade most major organizations
Continue reading Chapter 6: Implementing key client programs
I’ve just found out that there’s a video stream of a keynote speech I did last year on the future of investment at the Brillient PortfolioConstruction conference. At the time I wrote about one of the key frames I used for the presentation, focusing on population growth and economic growth in the period from 1600
As now happens frequently, mainstream media has taken a blog discussion, written it up, and sparked off more interesting debate. Media symbiosis continues to develop. A blog post by Jeremy Liew of the VC firm Lightspeed Venture Partners on how to build online media businesses with at least $50 million in revenue triggered an article
Last year Sebastian Chan, web services manager at the Powerhouse Museum, and I were interviewed together on ABC Radio about social media and its implications. In the context of our Web 2.0 in Australia event, Sebastian just emailed me about what the Powerhouse Museum has been doing. He says: Basically our collection database plays on
Continue reading Museum 2.0: bringing our heritage to the people
A vigorous discussion continues on whether Enterprise 2.0 happens by itself or by design. Andrew McAfee says that he and Euan Semple agree “vociferously”. He also makes the very relevant point that “doing nothing” will only work well if companies don’t block access to online collaboration tools. Dion Hinchcliffe points to organizations where the use
Continue reading Enterprise 2.0 – are the differences philosophical?
The Web 2.0 in Australia event announced a few weeks back, to be held 6 June, is shaping up to be an absolutely terrific event. BEA Systems is the Gold sponsor. BEA acquired the major content management system vendor Plumtree in October 2005, and has made a number of other related acquisitions since then, positioning
The February issue of Inside Film magazine focuses on the state of industry in documentaries. An article DOC2012 examines the shape of documentaries in Australia over the next 7 years. The piece quotes me as follows: The potential impacts of digital media are broad. Media strategy consultant and chairman of the Future Exploration Network, Ross
Euan Semple, formerly head of knowledge management at the BBC, has written a blog post titled The 100% guaranteed easiest way to do Enterprise 2.0?. His answer (in summary) is: DO NOTHING GET OUT OF THE WAY KEEP THE ENERGY LEVELS UP So is it that easy? Last week at Barcamp Sydney I bumped into
I often write on this blog about the fabulous things I come across in the wonderful living networks in which we exist. In this case, I have to write about something that sucks real bad. From back in the mid-1990s I have thought that one of the most awesome applications of the Internet is for
Continue reading The vast potential of Internet radio is in jeopardy
The latest Interactive Advertising Bureau statistics show almost $4.8bn in internet advertising revenue for the fourth quarter of 2006, with full year figures reaching $16.8 billion. The graph below shows that the sustained uptrend of the last 4 ½ years, post the dot-com bust, is now being exceeded. One thing that irks me about the
Continue reading Internet advertising revenue soars – how much further to go?
Shannon Clark, networker extraordinaire and organizer of MeshForum, among other claims to fame, is organizing a neat event with a very innovative format. The Mobile Meshwalk will be held on March 20 from 9am to 9pm. The morning is a “Design Crawl”, where participants visit a number of design companies in San Francisco’s South Park
Continue reading Playing with new event formats: Mobile Meshwalk
In the February issue of Voyeur, the inflight magazine of Virgin Blue, I was interviewed for an article about the major trends of 2007. The article is below – as usual allow for journalistic interpretation in the quotations… FUTURE FOCUS Ross Dawson is the founder and chairman of Future Exploration Network – an innovative company
Future of Media Summit 2007 is on the way! Echoing what we did in a world-first at the Future of Media Summit 2006, the conference will be held simultaneously in Sydney on the morning of 18 July and San Francisco on the evening of 17 July, linking cross-continental panels and discussion by videoconference. The partnership
A month ago, in a piece on mainstream media merging with social media, I described how USAToday was one of only two mainstream online news sites that allowed users to select their own feeds from any news source. Now USAToday has announced a massive site revamp that includes features such as user commentary on all
Continue reading USAToday takes mainstream online news into social networks
This issue has been discussed before and I’ve written about it several times, though it doesn’t seem to go away. Robert Niles, editor of Online Journalism Review, has written a very interesting post titled Are blogs a ‘parasitic’ medium? He notes : Over the past months, I’ve heard several journalists make the same comment at
Following the big success of the Trend Blend 2007+ trend map, Future Exploration Network partner organization Nowandnext.com has followed up with an Innovation Timeline 1900-2050. It represents visually (and as usual somewhat tongue in cheek) the development of innovation from 1900, starting with the tape recorder, safety razor, tabloid newspaper, aeroplane and cornflakes, and flowing
Continue reading Innovation Timeline 1900 – 2050: what we might invent in the next few decades
I’m at Auckland airport, on my way home from co-presenting a Value Networks Masterclass with Verna Allee. It was a fabulous event, with around 30 attendees. This included a group from the event organizers AgResearch, which is already well under way in applying value networks methodologies, including having a number of people certified in Verna
Continue reading The intersection of value networks and social networks
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Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chairman of AHT Group, which consists of 3 companies: consulting, publishing, and ventures firm Advanced Human Technologies, future and strategy firm Future Exploration Network, and events company The Insight Exchange.
Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0, the prescient Living Networks, which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.
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SAP White Paper: Service Delivery Innovation
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CNET/ University of Virginia White Paper: How Technology Purchasing Decisions Are Really Made
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