Governments around the world are increasingly recognizing that they have a responsibility for structured thought and research about the future, both to shape their own initiatives, and to assist companies and institutions in the nation to survive and thrive in times of change. France : Centre d’Analyse Stratégique. Mexico : 2030 Vision. MORE >>

The best products don’t focus on features, they focus on clarity. Problems should be fixed through simple solutions, something you don’t have to configure, maintain, control. The perfect solution needs to be so simple and transparent you forget it’s even there. However, elegantly minimal designs don’t happen by chance. MORE >>

A number of years ago, I wrote an article  (PDF) talking about how we might go beyond our current ‘apart’ learning experiences. The notion is what I call ‘layered learning’, where we don’t send you away from your life to go attend a learning event, but instead layer it around the events in  your life. Reckon? MORE >>

Tweet One of the great difficulties in shifting an organization from a hierarchical, command and control structure to a more networked wirearchical one is that you have to work both ends at once. Examining a business and looking at how it can be more social, innovative and agile is not really that difficult. Changing to a social business is complex.  MORE >>

On 10th November we (Sheffield University Information School) hosted a seminar on an Information Literacy Curriculum , run by Jane Secker (London School of Economics), Emma Coonan (Cambridge University Library), Helen Webster (learning developer at Cambridge University) and Katy Wrathall. There is full documentation on their new blog at [link]. MORE >>