- Any organisation is one thing. We must never forget that it is only our metaphors that make it seem many things.
I was at a seminar on Agile Business Processes at the Daresbury Innovation Campus yesterday. I like going to stuff there – the cross-fertilisation of people, ideas and subjects is hugely stimulating.
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- Making Community Contribution & Recognition come alive
I was trying to explain our way of Community Contribution & Recognition to a group of people the other day.
By this we refer to what we see as the key dynamising force of a productively happy life – the need to be part of a productive social grouping, the need to be able to play one’s part (subject to generous welfare provision which recognises essential human worth), and the need to be recognised in multiple ways beyond the simply material.
Corporate culture as a foundational essential, not a later stage luxury .
Madeleine is just embarking on a major research project into what she calls SBC (Small Business Culture) and over the coming few years The Cultureship Practice will radically develop its offerings to entrepreneurs, seeking to make superior corporate culture a foundational asset to start-ups and smaller enterprises.
This brief article is her first publicly announced information on this exciting development in the area of entrepreneurship.
How big do you have to be to start thinking about organisational culture? Is it when an organisation reaches a certain turnover, or employs a certain number of staff? Or is it when, in an evolving and organic sense, there is an identifiable culture greater than the sum of its parts? And if it is, how do you spot that?
It’s still about the human relationships but we must never forget the infrastructure
I was reading a new article on the growing effects of Web 2.0 outside the strict boundaries of technology and it contained some broad statements about the possibilities of its effect on corporate culture.
At first it seemed like one of those sweeping claims that commentators sometimes like to work in just for the sake of making their specific area of interest seemingly more important – claims aiming for grandeur but only reaching hauteur.
And then it struck me that maybe I was being the Luddite, the one dismissing the latest technology, if not for its utility, at least perhaps in its implications and possibilities.
Continue reading ‘New Technologies And The Re-awakening of Actor Network Theory’
