Innovating at the Bottom of the Pyramid

I want to extend a hat tip to Jon Ingham for picking up on this fabulous article from C.K. Prahalad. Prahalad is a Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Ross School of Business at the Univ of Michigan.  He, along with Gary Hamel, is responsible for the concept of Core Competence, and independently he has [...]

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Making talent management meaningful

Jason Averbook and Mike Brennan of Knowledge Infusion have been posting some interesting thoughts lately on the need to think about industry context when embarking upon new talent management initiatives. Whether speaking of the technology, the processes, your organization’s competencies,  or the analytics you choose, etc., the need to move beyond cross-industry best practices and [...]

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The Potential of Open Source Learning

Now I’m really reaching back (2006!!), but I’m having a wonderful time exploring the TED Talks series and this one is just way too compelling to not share. It’s a bit long, but Richard Baraniuk has conceived something truly valuable and unique with Connexions.  Ultimately much more powerful than a $100 laptop and absolutely in [...]

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