April 2008
4 posts
Predicting the Italian Elections
The deterioration of Italian society seems unstoppable. Today and tomorrow there are parliamentary elections in Italy. The assessment of the LA Times today is damning “In Italy, crime pays and may get you elected”. This is in sharp contrast to the successful swarm businesses in the Silicon Valley described in my previous post today. I still was curious to see who of the two top...
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Swarm Business is Social Business - in the Silicon...
The New York Times today has a great article about social entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley. While many companies in the Silicon Valley have had a social conscience to start with - most prominently Google, whose credo is “don’t be evil” - a new breed of non-profits have successfully merged being a vibrant business with doing good to society. High-profile examples are the...
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COINs featured on CNN Web Site
I recently had an interview with Paul Willis from CNN Europe, his excellent article about Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) is now up.
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Why Swarm Business is much better in dealing with...
The financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks – when one falls, they all fall. The increased concentration among banks seems to have the effect of making financial crisis less likely, but when they happen they are more global in scale and hit us very hard. ……. We would be far better off if there were a different ecology, in which financial institutions went bust...
