This evening I was reading Business Model Generation (thanks Tom Graves for sending me a copy). It's an approach for designing your business model and comparing it with others, such as your competitors. It is one of many approaches that illustrates the phenomenal effort that goes into developing business models and strategies. MORE >>

I'm sure you've noticed, but there's a major battle underway for the hearts and minds of what we, in this industry, broadly call "developers." Often the term is used quite strictly, to mean actual coders who build actual software-driven applications, services, or websites. At the moment, it seems to me, the game is utterly open. Yeah, I said Yahoo. MORE >>

The book Work 2.0 – Rewriting the Contract was published several years ago by Bill Jensen (@simpletonbill) which outlined four principles for the rapidly-approaching interconnected workplace of the near future. That "near future" is now here and the impact of Jensen's four principles are growing. The principles are: 1. Guess what? MORE >>

@ADDIE_ID is a Twitter pseudonym for someone who discusses “Analysis-Design-Development-Implementation-Evaluation&# and the “Instructional Design&# model, and is really most sincerely dead , as are many training-related theories. The theory has also been aligned with learning styles. Occam’s Donkey: Mind Myth 7. MORE >>

On September 14, Forrester will publish Empowered, co-authored by Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler, its sequel to Groundswell. got a preview of the approach as Forrester shared a review copy of the report, The HERO Index: Finding Empowered Employees by Ted Schadler and Josh Bernoff.   Here is apartial quote form the summary. like this approach. MORE >>