Check out Fast Company’s take aways from a new report by popular business blog PSFK about the future of the work place.
In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Salesforce.com, Evernote is an example. So now you have got the rise of this new set of companies that are sort of consumerized technology for businesses.
[VentureBeat] Some forward-thinking companies are looking to take innovation to the next level by giving employees the chance to launch their own companies while on the job. These new hybrid entrepreneur-employees — or “entre-ployees” — are poised to reshape the face of the tech industry. Click here to read more…
(via fastcompany)
New research from Shai Bernstein, an assistant professor of finance at the Stanford GSB, says going public often slows innovation. Read why IPOs change the mindset and innovation of companies: http://stnfd.biz/h3UkW
Video is the Social CEO Hotspot
More than ever, CEOs are using video to promote their company narratives and connect. In 2010, video was used by only 18 percent of CEOs. Today, the rate of video usage has more than doubled, with 40 percent of CEOs now appearing in corporate videos. Growth in video is nearly evenly divided between CEOs appearing in videos on company websites and on corporate YouTube channels.
Data is the new Oil: 3 illustrations - which one do you think is best? The theme was coined by Clive Humby at AMA 2006, but I use it a lot in my talks and presentations, see the links here
The b/w piece was done by Sedat Oezgen, the green & cloud piece is by Gerry Alpern, and the people/cloud background was licensed from sevensheaven
On finding start-up ideas