Future Salon

Collaborator's Dilemma Future Salon with Nilofer Merchant

Collaborator's Dilemma Future Salon on Thursday 17th of September 6pm at SAP Labs in Palo Alto. Please RSVP http://budurl.com/6qx6

Abstract: Just as Clayton Christensen highlights The Innovator's Dilemma, we must identify and name The Collaborator's Dilemma to describe the way we create—or fail to create—strategies that work. Organizations, and the people within in them want to tap the talents of their people, generate lots of great ideas and have everyone co-own the solution.

But we don’t do that. We instead have an “air sandwich” between the executives and others.

Collaboration can fill that gap I call an Air Sandwich: the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy up in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on the floor. Where there should be connective pieces between the vision and the reality, in an Air Sandwich the filling consists mainly of misunderstandings, confusions, and disinformation. It is that Air Sandwich which prevents us from winning.

This session explains how this problem is fixable if one is willing to reinvent their firm to win. Discussion will center on the future of work and organizations and how collaboration will play out in 5, 10, 15 years. 

John Smart's Evo Devo Future Salon Video

John Smart is someone who has thought deeply about the future and shared his insight at the Future Salon. Video in two parts. He also is sharing his slides here: http://accelerating.org/presentations/EvoDevoUniverseBAFS2009.ppt

Bay Area Future Salon - Evo Devo Universe? Part 1 of 2, John Smart from John Smart on Vimeo.

Bay Area Future Salon - Evo Devo Universe? Part 2 of 2, John Smart from John Smart on Vimeo.

FreeRisk Future Salon Webcast @ ustream.tv

If you can't be here in person, you can join us online, as we are broadcasting starting at 7:00pm PST:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/future-salon Enjoy!

Live TV : Ustream

Future Salon Topic FreeRisk applicable for Bioinformatics too!

Image by Darwin Bell via Flickr

Interesting observation / aspect of this months Future Salon topcic:

Freerisk.org sucks in financial data from the SECXBRL format, allows the community to add additional annotations, and then makes that data available to standard risk analysisbioinformatics. Keep the data available, add annotations, and have this sandbox in which algorithms can be applied and developed. using the algorithms and, this is the best part, available for others to apply their own algorithms. My first reaction was, this is what we want to be able to do in bioinformatics. Keep the data available, add annotations, and have this sandbox in which algorithms can be applied and developed.mndoci.com, Freerisk – An open platform for risk modeling, Jun 2009
If you want to find out more about FreeRisk, the two founders are going to present at the Future Salon on Thursday 20th of August.

FreeRisk Future Salon Thursday 20th of August

Even though we had the biggest financial breakdown since the great depression, so far no fundamental changes that I know of to our economic system have been implemented. It sets us up for a similar crisis in the future. This is the first Future Salon in a series where we are looking at alternative economic solutions. 

One of the problems was, that even Moody's and Standard & Poor's AAA rated companies were falling. Their risk assessment was useless. This month's Future Salon speakers are working on solving that problem by bringing transparency and competition to risk assessment.

Please join us at the FreeRisk Future Salon on Thursday the 20th of August 6pm please RSVP http://budurl.com/j6n2.