Sep 16th, 2008 |
David SparkCIO Boot Camp @ Interop_NY: Defining personal/social networks in the workforce
Thornton May is a futurist, an amazingly smart guy, and talks a million miles an hour. In my fastest typing skills I tried to capture as much wisdom as possible. He begins by explaining that the CIO needs these following qualities:
- Sensemaking - the ability to make situation of ambiguous situations
- Relating - Inquiry, the ability to listen and understand what others are thinking and feeling. Be able to suspend judgment and understand how others moved from data to opinions.
- Advocacy - Championing your decisions.
- Visioning - Create compelling visions of the future.
The organizational chart are the “rules” of the enterprise. Social networking are the ropes of the organization. It’s how things actually happen says Karen Stephensonof of Harvard School of Design and Imperial College’s School of Management at the University of London. She defined the three different roles of social networking in the enterprise as hubs, pulsetakers, and gatekeepers.
As we all left for lunch, Thornton May asked everyone the following question, “Does disruptive change happen because of new technology in place or do people cause social change which causes the technology to change?” I thought it was such a good question that I asked Thornton to answer it on camera.
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[...] If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS Feed or follow us on Twitter! Thanks for visiting!As we broke for lunch, I ran up to Thornton May and asked him the question he asked all of us to discuss: “Does disruptive change happen because of new technology in place or do people cause social change which causes the technology to change?” Give a listen to his answer and make sure you read his discussion about the definition of personal/social networks in the workforce. [...]
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