After the Google Wave announcement in May I went in to work all excited to share the awesomeness with my colleagues — one of whom caught me off-guard by asking, “Ok, so what good is that?“ My first thought was, “Hmmm, obviously I didn’t stress how awesome it’s going to be.” Then I realized maybe we’re [...]
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Open/Conceptual Aim #1: Digitizing Our Decision-Making Processes
by OpenConceptual on 07-12-2009
in mission
Just sort of a brainstorm here, following up on some of my relatively more youthful attempts to outline what this is all about: Draft Enterprise Model The Practice of Theory The other day I jotted down a few points — trying to distill the underlying mission of this amorphous enterprise. It has a few different [...]
Tagged as: accountability, articulation, beta, business, change, civics, decision-making, decisions, design thinking, digitization, government, information, objectivity, open, open government, open source, openness, org theory, organizations, participation, politics, pragmatism, social web, society, transparency, volunteering, web
I’ll start with this really stand-out quote from James Reaney’s blog that got a lot of ideas churning for me a while ago. I’m not sure whether Reaney or LFPress approve of me clipping so many words but this whole chunk deserves to be kept intact: There are many excellent ways to recognize built heritage in [...]
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Learned this one from Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution. (I seem to deriving a lot from him lately… could do worse). Cowen is great for “economics of everyday life” kind of thinking; this concept comes by way of posts about high school bands and Ross Douthat’s career move from The Atlantic to the New York Times, which [...]
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