Howard Rheingold, who wrote the book SmartMobs, gave a presentation at TED 2005 that was recently posted. In it, he discusses the concepts of collaboration and collective action. Interestingly, he associates these concepts with an evolving concept of cooperative capitalism in which people and organizations are simultaneously working in their self interest and in a cooperative manner.
This ties back to my concepts around Market Driven IT organizations and provides additional insights into how IT might act and react to become more strategic and drive business value. How might IT apply some of these ideas - not so much from a technology perspective (creating social technologies for the workplace), but from a business perspective? How might these concepts be applied to help IT develop cooperative approaches to delivering services and value to the business that simply cannot be provided independently.
This 20 minute presentation is very thought provoking and is sure to stimulate some new ideas. It's well worth the time.
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