Jean Lievins: The Economist Rocks, Sharing Economy Highlighted

Economist: Sharing Economy All Eyes on the Sharing Economy Collaborative consumption: Technology makes it easier for people to rent items to each other. But as it grows, the “sharing economy” is hitting roadblocks By The Economist, March 9 2013. WHY pay through the nose for something when you can rent it more cheaply from a …

Jean Lievens: Jeremy Rifkin on Global Issues and the Future of Our Planet

Google Translation: Uploaded on Mar 7, 2011 Forget the credit crunch, it is not compared with the problems ahead. This says top economist Jeremy Rifkin in an exclusive interview with EénVandaag. http://www.eenvandaag.nl/binnenland/3 … According to Rifkin, everything depends on the question, how we deal with energy? We continue to cling to fossil fuel than is …

SmartPlanet: U.K. businesses waste billions a year on tech investment

U.K. businesses waste billions a year on tech investment According to new research, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the U.K. habitually waste money on IT products and services they don’t need. IT software provider SolarWinds released a new study today which examines what challenges IT staff face in small and medium businesses this year. …

NIGHTWATCH: US is Escalating NK Crisis — NK Positioned to Hit Guam + RECAP

North Korea-US: Warning. Today’s General Staff statement and the detection of an intermediate-range ballistic missile at an east coast site indicate the North Koreans are ready to launch a missile without additional warning. Miscalculation and misperception could lead to a missile firing. The statement contains language in the official English translation that announces North Korea …

Reflections on Information Pathologies & Organizational Intelligence — Why Predictive Analytics on Industrial Era Data is Fraud, Waste, & Abuse

Coherent, the Force is…. Restrictive Control and Information Pathologies in Organizations Wolfgang Scholl* Humboldt-University, Berlin Although the relation of power to knowledge is an often discussed theme, a psychological and sociological scrutiny of the issue is lacking. A new conceptual and theoretical approach to this issue is presented here that distingushes between restrictive and promotive …