Category: IO Sense-Making

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Journal: 20th Century Clunkers vs 21st Century Slims

ICT-IT, IO Sense-Making
Steve Denning

Visualizing the difference between 20th and 21st Century management

I wrote last month about the biggest difference between 20th and 21st Century management. I said there that management in the 20th Century was about achieving a finite goal: delivering goods and services, to make money. Management in the 21st Century by contrast is about the infinite goal of delighting customers; the firm makes money, yes, but as a consequence of the delight that it creates for customers, not as the goal.

That’s a fairly abstract account of the difference.  What does it mean in practice?  Let’s bring that down to earth with a visual embodiment of it.

Network On Call Not In Hand

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Phi Beta Iota: It's not just about functionality and ease of use–it is about what the handheld allows you to access, leverage, exploit, share, and made sense of.  The handheld is a key, nothing more.  That is why smart phones are history.  It is the collective intelligence of all humans that is smart, first one with a dumb device and a full range of M4IS2 services in the cloud wins.  Google is math hashing digital garbage–we are not betting on them.

See Also:

Graphic: Epoch B Multinational Network Rising
2008 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace
Complexity & Catastrophe (91)
Complexity & Resilience (99)

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Journal: Tim Berners-Lee Says “Free Internet for All”

About the Idea, Autonomous Internet, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Historic Contributions, IO Sense-Making, Key Players, Mobile, Policies, Real Time, Threats, Topics (All Other)
Tim Berners-Lee Calls for Free Internet for All -- Full Story Online

BBC 15 September 2010 Last updated at 05:58 ET

Tim Berners-Lee calls for free internet worldwide

The inventor of the Web has called for everyone to have access to his creation for free.

Tim Berners-Lee said that he would like to see everybody given a low-bandwidth connection “by default”.

He said the web could be instrumental in giving people access to critical services such as healthcare.

Currently, he said, just one-fifth of the world's population has access to the web.

“What about the other 80%?” he asked the audience at the Nokia World conference in London.

Tip of the Hat to Pierre Levy at LinkedIn.

Phi Beta Iota: Sir Tim is on target but misses the critical point, which is that the Internet is already free, what is NOT free is the handheld device needed to access it.  Earth Intelligence Network and its 24 co-founders are committed to the idea of free cell phones for the five billion poor, along with national call centers that educate them “one cell call at a time” while also providing access to the kinds of Internet application that the Grameen AppLab is creating.

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Reference: Business Intelligence Blogs

Blog Wisdom, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), IO Sense-Making, Methods & Process
# Business Intelligence Sources Registration? Recommended by
3 BeyeNetwork No Rachel Delacour
2 Information-Management.com No Rachel Delacour
2 TDWI.org No Rachel Delacour
BitPipe Business Intelligence No Naveen Gumgol
Data Administration Newsletter No Bruce Bond-Myatt
iWareLogic Oracle (BI & EBS) No Abhishek Sharma
MAIA Intelligence Blog Yes Dhiren Gala
Oracle BI Blog No Taher Hakami
Prologica Forums—Dashboards Plus No Sree Jallipalli
Ralph Kimball Yes Steve Fiske
Spagobi the Open Source Business Intel Suite Yes Gabriele Ruffatti
Visual Business Intelligence No Hrvoje Smolić

Tip of the Hat to the listed respondents at LinkedIn Business Intelligence Group.

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Journal: World Bank Data Gaining Intelligence

IO Mapping, IO Multinational, IO Sense-Making

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Widgets, maps and an API make World Bank data sing

The new data.worldbank.org looks to improve data-driven decisions.

The new data.worldbank.org website that's launching today is designed to make the vast wealth of open data easier to use. The Bank is increasing the number of indicators available on the site from 339 to more than 1,200, and it has substantially improved its API. Four different languages are supported on the site, along with an improved data browser, feedback buttons, instant search, and embeddable widgets.

Tip of the Hat to Bob Gourley at LinkedIn.

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Journal: YouTube Time Machine, Future of Education

Analysis, Augmented Reality, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Historic Contributions, History, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), International Aid, IO Mapping, IO Multinational, IO Sense-Making, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Key Players, Maps, Methods & Process, Mobile, Open Government, Policies, Reform, Research resources, Strategy, Technologies, Threats, Tools, YouTube

YouTube Time Machine

YouTube Time Machine

Right now the Categories include, in this order:  Video Games,  Television,  Commercials,  Current Events,  Sports, Movies,  Music.

Phi Beta Iota: Now imagine this in all languages, available on the cell phone, as an educational tool that also harnesses the cognitive surplus–the distributed intelligence–of the Whole Earth.  Our view of YouTube is now such that we consider it more important than Google.

Also see YouTube.com/leanback (use search at top of leanback page)

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Journal: Internet Archive in Sun Portable Data Center

03 Economy, 04 Education, Collective Intelligence, IO Sense-Making, Methods & Process
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Data Storage: Internet Archive Gets a Place in the Sun (Portable Data Center)

By Chris Preimesberger on 2009-03-26 eWeek.com

The Internet Archive, one of the fastest-growing digital libraries in the world, has migrated its massive amount of content into a new Sun Microsystems-built portable data center loaded with 60 Sun X4500 Thumper arrays that each have 48TB of storage capacity. Sun staged a launch event at its Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters on March 25.

“It's amazing to think that the whole Web collection, which is about 2PB compressed and from 4PB to 5PB uncompressed, can live in a 20-foot-by-8-foot-by-8-foot shipping container, which, from our standpoint, is a computer,” Brewster Kahle, digital librarian and founder of the Internet Archive, told eWEEK.

The archive, which employs the equivalent of only three system administrators, goes back to 1996 and stores more than 150 billion Web pages, Kahle said. It is accessed 500 times per second. Archive.org also houses the Wayback Machine, 1 million books, 100,000 movies and about 200,000 audio recordings, Kahle said. “It is a full-on library. This technology we see as another step toward a manageable system for dealing with enormous amounts of information safely.”

Phi Beta Iota: Don't miss the eight-shot slide show above.  Brewster spoke at OSS '92–we have wasted the past twenty years, he has not.  Now imagine this combined with the C Drives of participating members of the Global Game, and all the insurance data, and true cost information overlain on all credit purchases…..