this blog will concentrate on communication for a couple of days, #mtw3 from Wed

The scope of #mtw3 is getting back towards learn9, combining learning and ISO 9000 though it could be learning from any quality system. It may be that forms of communication are possible anyway, more will come out at Cross Media Live. But the form of #mtw3 this week is intended as a preparation for this. So today and tomorrow I will have another look at the issues around communication as such in previous posts.

I will come back to this again anyway for the London College of Communications conference on Futures. Just at the level of words, why do they use Design and Media to describe the departments? I still can't work out what has happened to print and publishing or whatever they relate to now.

I am thinking back to OhmyNews stories for IPEX a couple of years ago. The topics seem to stay the same but the events change over time. Adobe seems more interested in Cross Media Live than a general print event. How much will they explain? I still don't know anything about a new Acrobat. What is special about Adobe analytics? At IPEX it seemed to me that digital had established parity with litho. At Cross Media there is not much sign of litho so there could be a discussion with marketing that included variable data. I realise this has been possible for a while but not much happening on any scale. I think the journalism around print is moving online and the companies exhibiting at shows are using video to communicate directly. Not sure how Printweek and the Guardian for example are reporting this. But Cross Media is an occasion to check out actual behaviour. 

#mtw3 post in context, back to Sidmouth

Trying out the idea that this blog is coherent, I may try to carry on with Spin 2 and soul music as part of the #mtw3 discussion. I hope to find time on Thursday to discuss design science and the DJ during the Wild Show on Phonic FM. We play some folk and some soul and sometimes talk about how Exeter live music is represented in the Sidmouth folk week.

The #mtw3 Facebook group includes Captain Gallows from the Pyrates so he may have a theory about organisation. Booking policy at the Anchor may be influenced by various factors. Can the plans for Sidmouth Folk Week be seen as design? More later.

 

John Burgoyne comment has too much agenda for #mtw3 except online

John Burgoyne added this comment below to my post about Spin 2 and soul music in Sidmouth. I am going to move it to other places, such as LinkedIn and Facebook. I will also put more in the next post about how this blog relates to #mtw3. To repeat previous posts, Management Theory at Work has included two face2face events so far. There may be a third at the Work Foundation. This week there will be more online, especially  Wed / Thur / Fri.

Eventually we will need to limit the scope to fit into a day, but online txt can  expand in various ways on various timescales.

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Comment from John

re all the above, I have been doing more work with colleagues on where leaderhsip is going. see notes below. the numbered points may not make much sense to you on their own, so if you are curious ask me here or email me on j.burgoyne@lancaster.ac.uk .

I also have a 'dropbox' file on this stuff, send me your email to my email as above if you want me to join you to this.

here is my current thinking:

Where is it and where should it be going?
Three main inter-related strands:
1.) More scientific leadership (as well as human relations)
2.) More ethical etc. leadership as above
3.) Virtual leadership, ditto
Mapped into these themes:
1.) Castels – history of the internet
2.) Zuboff – automate to informate, new form of virtual leadership still to come?
3.) Generation Y etc.
4.) Changing nature of followers
5.) Greening etc.
6.) Weakening of the professions?
7.) Adaptive innovation
8.) Outsourcing
9.) Learning organisation / dynamic capability
10.) Student (?) theory
11.) Structure and culture
12.) Adult education?
13.) Miniaturisation / lean
14.) Intellectual property and the knowledge economy
15.) Meaningfullness
16.) Changing sources of power for leadership
17.) Correspondence theory
18.) Leading a purposeful workforce
19.) Leadership of social movement
20.) Requisite variety
21.) Elephants and fleas
22.) ARM (what is this?)
23.) Critical realism in general
24.) Darwin, Maturana and Valera and Bateson. Evolution, autopoesis and larger units of survival
25.) Evolutionary psychology? (ref. Nicholson)
26.) Asda example (what was this about?)
27.) Individual, team, task and technology
28.) Actor – network theory?
29.) More on Dewey?
30.) Informated economy
31.) Franchising
32.) Making and trading (don’t forget the latter)
33.) Political and economic history (one for David!)
34.) History of war?
35.) Pre-human, hunter-gathering, agriculture, manufacture, mento-facture (knowledge economy and work), spiroculture / identity culture (meaningfulness)
36.) Global / cross cultural issues. Developed, de-developing, developing economies. Following same route and jumping over stages? Global managerial/leadership culture.
37.) Social and human capital
38.) Leadership as the origin, the primary source or the final cause (too theoretical/philosophical. Grint on the bow-wave pulling the ship along and the ship shaping how the captain steers it (never got this, may not have got it right).

Implications for Leadership Development
Cover content and process as above.
More when we are clearer about implications of what
Quote paper ‘how can you develop leadership if you don’t know what it is?’. The implication of the paper is that you can’t, but one argument (with which I agree) is that you can through action learning (and coaching and mentoring, the ‘context sensitive methods’- have ref.). The argument is that these methods get round the problem by saying that ‘leadership is what leaders do, individually and collectively, but who do you count as a ‘leader’ in the first place, the problem does not go away!).
Virtual development processes needs to be discussed.
Does the leadership pipeline assume a declining form or organisation (or not)?
Why are the new organisations, google, eBay, facebook etc. largely or entirely absent from Business School client lists (need to check if this is true, think it is).

publishing, loops to #mtw3 Work Foundation

There was a blog post at the Work Foundation but I cant find it so have found what I think is similar
 
 
Lucy Montgomery is Director of Research for Knowledge Unlatched, based at the Work Foundation as art of their Big Innovaton Centre.
 
I am listening to the Wild Show at the moment and also catchin up on blogs and links. Radio as been allowed to use recorded music as a way to promote it. This has been so for a while now. Gradually this is spreading online. Book publishing is moving in a similar direction but more slowly. Part of #mtw3 could be to consider universities, libraries etc as organisations adapting to this. A few incidents so far, the Grove Journal was loaded to Scribd with an article by John Burgoyne. The Networked Learning conference papers 2012 are published by Lancaster University online as PDF, previously I think by Springer. More checks next week.

Checkland on YouTube, more for the Design Science DJ #mtw3

I am still reminded of topics that should be included in #mtw3. It is an advantage online that there is unlimited space, it is up to the audience to do the editing.
 
So far in the various versions of his talk John Burgoyne has described the coming end of leadership as a theme but also pointed to a future for scientific leadership, without so far going into much detail. I think there should be space for systems, especially soft systems thinking. I have covered this in previous posts but it is worth raising again as the Lancaster TV resource has produced some excellent video from recent events and it is available on YouTube.
 
 
I don't think systems is often described as design but there are similar ways of working. I think a radio how such as the Wild Show could look at this using different words, could be next week.
 
Design can cover many points of view as uggested by the 3D diagram from Gibson Burrell. I remember a previus two dimensional diagram created with Gareth Morgan. Checkland described soft systems as a sort of journey around the diagram. I will have to study more to work out how this happens in 3D.   

"spiroculture" , crucible, another topic for #mtw3

I am in Lancaster and went to the campus this morning. Several photos but will wait till next week when I am back phot  to desktop and  Cross Mediaphotoediting as I am used to.
 
Meanwhile I am checking out some links on #mtw3 ahead of next week and the refresh ahead of of Cross Media.
 
I have watched again the Youtube clip of John  Burgoyne on " an optimistic view of the future" and also found the slides from Scribd. Some extracts-
 
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From the knowledge economy to spiro-culture, identity culture, meaningfulness

My argument is a largely optimistic one.

It is that, although the knowledge economy is barely getting under way, to varying degrees in varying contexts, we are already moving on to another condition, or ‘state’ that I will varyingly call ‘identity culture’ or ‘spiro-culture’, depending on how brave I am feeling about mentioning spirituality, to which the latter refers.

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The optimistic part is that with a spiroculture lifestyle we can ‘walk lightly on the earth’, as the poor are said to do, in ecological terms. We can be spiritually rich but materially modest in our consumption. (reference here to Charles Carter, founding Vice-Chancellor, Quaker economist and his book ‘Wealth’ which attempts to reclaim the term for wellbeing, its original meaning).

Let’s be brave in this context.

Spiro-culture is about the search for meaningfulness in life. As customers this is increasingly the value which we are paying for.

The Nike T shirt that costs £50 may have cost 50p to make in China, £2 to ship and sell to us. The rest is for the brand. It is said that shopping malls are the cathedrals of the 21st century. 

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We are not there to bet the basics of food or clothing, but to find an identity we like – back to the Nike T shirt.

Maslow forgiven and developed

In the East in contrast, Zen Buddhists, for example, can self-actualise on an insecure handful of rice a day, though they may command some respect in some quarters.

Developing countries and spiritual roots

While the East, and its growing economies, are Westernising at some speed, they are probably still closer to their spiritual roots than the West, and the West, particularly America, has its spiritual, or rather religious (explain distinction?) commitments, particularly muscular Christianity, which has its good and bad points, in my view at least.

Developing countries and spiritual roots

Perhaps the West has much to learn from, as well as teach to, the East, and this could be a fertile ground for collaboration?

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I was reminded of the second Management Theory at Work conference when John Wilson and Bronwen Rees spoke on "Towards an Understanding of Organisational Transformation through Ethical enquiry." Some searching has found a PDf with an update on Crucible Research, the project they were working on at the time.

 

http://www.bronwenrees.co.uk/articles

 

I will have a look and hope to have taken it in by next week. 

 

Design for the Design Science DJ

This may make more sense in a couple of weeks time. Thursday week, 10 to 10.30 on Phonic FM there will be some music but I hope also to continue conversation with JD about Design, Science, and how to DJ. He has been studying a link I sent to a blog about the Science DJ.

The source clips are a short intro and then a 20 minute edit on YouTube

So we need to work out how far we agree with the claims on what a DJ is doing and then I would like to look at Design Science. The #mtw3 conference may be able to link leadership and teaching by considering both as examples of design science. But "design" is understood in various ways. Through Critical Management I have found a recent talk by Gibson Burrell

There is also a page on research methods at Sheffield with an earlier version of this talk.

(By the way, why not edit in the graphics to break up the talk and make it easier to follow? One fixed camera at a distance from the screen is not the only option)

So in theory even within 30 minutes we could either rephrase or find sound examples to start on Design Science ( not knowing much or anything at all is an established mode for radio presentation)

Tel studio: 01392 434577 
Email Studio: studio@phonic.fm

So please get in touch during the show. An mp3 in advance would be best, or txt on Facebook. Search on "Wild Show" 

This week we made a start. We may get some more time during the next hour and a half, it depends how many gaps Chris needs to sort out the music. I like the idea of the studio as a 3 dimensional box diagram but this may take several shows to develop.

#mtw3 blog confirms date August 22nd to 24th for online concentration

Linda Shelton has updated the #mtw3 blog confirming the dates Aug 22 to 24 for a revised look at the material for #mtw3.

Also she has checked the links and found that there is a YouTube video of the keynote for Design!? by Gibson Burrell.

See my earlier post

I think this new material on design will help conversation on what is meant by design. Diana Laurillard has a recent book about Design Science and Teaching. This has reminded us of Design Science and leadership in previous writing by John Burgoyne. But what is generally understood about design science is far from clear.

I will also try to find some references in quality discussions. There are connections with design but again, not that clear.

Clues about Adobe from India #CrossMedia12

Found this through Digital Dialogue Asia Pacific group on LinkedIn

Interview with Aseem Chandra, Vice President, Product Marketing, Omniture Business Unit, Adobe Systems

Previously I have just found video of stage presentations so have not really got a grip on what Adobe is doing. Text is often easier to follow.

Adobe is a different business today than it was three years ago in the digital marketing space. The change happened for the better post Adobe's acquisition of Omniture in 2009. Adobe has over the last three years focused on developing digital technology for helping digital marketers value add products of measurability. With digital communications getting driven by social, marketers are now looking at understanding how best the medium can be used.
Adobe developed Adobe Social with the focus to simplify social marketing within a common platform and workflow, unifying engagement with listening and industry-leading business analytics. Adobe Social Analytics that is the part the Adobe digital suite is one the first social media analytics solution that is developed to measure the impact of social media on business. 

So this seems to be the main focus. The Postscript and PDF products were a base to buy Macromedia and now Flash may be reaching a stage to be modified for HTML. So Omniture defines the technology, this is just a guess. 

However, the intro to the interview has a general statement and a question-
With the immense growth of social media, companies are trying to make sense of their social presence. Can leveraging free analytics help brands in manoeuvring the social labyrinth?

The issue of "free analytics" is not really explored. With Postscript and PDF there are now open ISO standards and it has always been possible to develop alternative software. Clearly there are choices around analytics but not enough clear explanation of what Adobe offers to work out the value of their services.

If Acrobat is part of the leading edge products before last then it must be time for a price drop. Still no official info on an Acrobat release date.