Cisco’s Virtual Management Lab - Inder Sidhu, VP Strategy and Planning Cisco WorldWide

How one of the world’s most innovative companies discovered the value of focusing its R&D attention on its own business practices.

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Analytics - The New Path to Value - Keep Existing Capabilities While Adding New Ones - MIT Sloan Management Review

Analytics: The New Path to Value: How the Smartest Organizations Are Embedding Analytics to Transform Insights Into Action is an excellent research report from the 2010 New Intelligent Enterprise Global Executive Study and Research Project conducted by MIT in association with the IBM Institute for Business Value. Here is part 6 of the Report chosen because it deals with insights, modelling and visualisations - the basis of the Creative Leadership Forum's Management Innovation Index

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Beyond Facebook and Twitter: The game layer on top of the world | Seth Priebatsch: Video on TED.com

By now, we're used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web -- building a "social layer" on top of the real world. At TEDxBoston, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer in progress: the "game layer," a pervasive net of behavior-steering game dynamics that will reshape education and commerce.

The Revolution Will Be Printed – Why A Book and Not A Blog - Mike Walsh, Futuretainment

The first question my publisher asked me was why a book and not a blog? Three years ago when I started working on Futuretainment, that was already a tough question to answer. With eBooks now on the crest of critical mass, it hasn’t got any easier. Last week, my book hit the shelves. Although you can buy it on Amazon, you can’t read it on a Kindle. In fact, with 300 pages of illustrations, original photographs and custom designed typography – it is about as Kindle friendly as a bathtub. That was a deliberate decision on my part, but it comes at a time when the very concept of a book is changing.

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The Many Faces of You and How To Keep Control of Those Faces - NYTimes.com

It’s a little odd to see your own photo in the “people you may know” box, but I have two Facebook profiles, for work (Claire Cain Miller), and for my personal life (Claire Miller Cain). Having two accounts allows my friends to see my wedding pictures but not the pitches I get from publicists, and my boss to see links to articles I find interesting but not the photos my friend posted after our vacation in Mexico. That need to put up a digital wall between work and life is an obvious reason that Facebook recently introduced an easier way to make posts and photos visible only to certain groups. Concern about privacy was one of Facebook’s motivations, but it was also reflecting the way we live our lives offline.

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