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The Knowledge Economy: Transforming the producer-consumer relationship

Enterprise Digital Social Networks: Executive Adoption Snapshot 2008December 1

2009 Poised as Inflection Point in Enterprise Usage—LinkedIn Increases Relevance to B2B Executives

During the 1990s, I was intimately involved with helping global organizations to decentralize their information technology—as a management consultant and marketing executive. However, a far more disruptive force is imminent today: communications and marketing are rapidly evolving into a networked, distributed pattern, following IT's lead. Individuals that congregate online will have an increasing role in affecting how other people make decisions, significantly weakening the influence of the mass media on which many marketing strategies depend. Organizations that depend on centralized, controlled communications will be astonished at how fast they become irrelevant over the next five years. Although the case studies are still being written, I'll go on record as saying that the 2008 U.S. presidential election will prove to be an inflection point of digital social networks' disruptive potential.

LinkedIn is a leading venue for B2B and B2C executives, so it merits sig

The Nonpartisan Global Human Capital Journal Endorses Barack Obama for U.S. PresidentNovember 1

Cites International Mindset, Judgment and Flexibility—Ambiguity and Global Transformation Form the Backdrop

The 2008 U.S. presidential election has been the most dramatic in recent history by any measure. Converging economic, cultural and political issues are increasing the level of discomfort among voters and raising the stakes. In endorsing Barack Obama, I have considered the candidates in several dimensions, but my primary perspective has been that of a management consultant. The United States is a client in crisis, and I have asked myself, "What kind of leader does the country need, given the challenges it faces?" Barack Obama is my prescription, although there may be unwelcome side effects. If circumstances were different, I might well have favored John McCain.

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