Archives for the 'Books about Trends' Category
Inteview with Don Tapscott
A very interesting conversation with Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics.
Some of the topics covered:
The relationship between technology and business.
“The Perfect Storm”: The changes in technology (Internet), demographics, society, and economics.
The paradigm shifts.
Music should be a service, not a good.
The power of mass collaboration.
Opening the boundaries of the companies.
Google is a digital conglomerate with software, advertising, […]
Thomas Friedman And The Energy Crisis
Pop!Tech defines itself as a network of remarkable people, extraordinary conferences, powerful ideas & innovative projects that are changing the world.
At their website you can watch and listen to many conferences.
In this post we want to talk about the conference of Thomas Friedman, the author of “The World is Flat”.
In this conference, Friedman talks about […]
The Power of Corporate Kinetics
In 1998, Michael Fradette and Steve Michaud wrote the book “The Power of Corporate Kinetics”.
In that book, 9 years ago, the authors already talked about the death of predictability, originated in the continuous changes of the environment. They stated that companies must be prepared to react instantaneously to market dynamics, and they gave recommendations to […]
Unlocking Cool
An interesting presentation about innovation and creativity. It includes many examples.
Karaoke Capitalism
Some years after writing Funky Business, Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordstrom wrote Karaoke Capitalism. The book repeats many of the concepts of its predecessor (it talks again about technologies, institutions, and values, for example) but it provides some new thoughts about them. It also refers to topics that were not so deeply treated in Funky […]
Management in the Next Society, by Peter Drucker
This book is a compilation of several articles written by Drucker between the late 90’s and the beginning of the present century. The book is highly recommended for those interested in the analysis of trends in society and management.
Drucker refers to topics such as the decrease in the birth rate; the declination of the industry […]
Books about Trends
Books about Trends comprise one of the essential topics of Trends & Business. Certain books originated our interest for this subject many years ago. They were The Third Wave and Power Shift, by Alvin Toffler.
More recently, a book that we consider very interesting about business trends is Funky Business, by Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordstrom, […]
