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The American Red Cross is no stranger to crises and disasters. When things go bad, it is often among the first organizations on the front lines lending assistance. Yet, last [...]

If there's one thing about the future of which we can be certain, it's that it will be extremely turbulent. Our forecasting research indicates that the coming decades will be [...]

In our complex, fast-changing world, there's never been any shortage of danger or opportunity. To make things even more challenging, those two opposites are frequently fueled by hype, usually for [...]

As we've looked ahead to the future in this column for the past 10 years, we've always tried to maintain a positive outlook. After all, we're co-creating our own shared [...]

It's 2009. I'm in a parking lot in Winchester, Virginia, with Ed Helvey: writer, speaker, audio engineer, producer, book publisher and freelancer-at-large. He's just finished selling off enough books, audio [...]

Over a decade ago, a group of us met to begin piecing together a framework for the enterprise of the future. Bill Halal, founder of TechCast LLC and now professor [...]

Topping out at a symbolic 1,776 feet, the new World Trade Center (WTC) tower in New York City is a bold statement of economic resilience and mankind's ability to look [...]

We are living in extraordinary and unprecedented times. Never before have we seen the convergence of so many different approaches to, and the need for, the discovery, transfer and application [...]

Next to 'What is the meaning of life?' perhaps the toughest question we KM'ers get asked is 'What's the ROI (return on investment) for all this KM stuff?' Making the [...]

The city is unlike any other institution on earth. There you'll find on full display 'the good, the bad and the ugly' of what makes us humans tick. In our [...]

As we continue our exploration of the enterprise of the future, we need to include an enterprise in which over half of the world's population resides--the city. In this article, [...]

According to IDC (idc.com), more than 1,000 exabytes of digital data were produced in 2010. That's equal to one zettabyte, which is a scary indication that we may be reaching [...]

Competing in the global knowledge economy means that your organization must learn and innovate as fast as change in the marketplace. Here's why. In the raw materials sector, the value [...]

Making the transformation to an Enterprise of the Future can seem overwhelming. Increased complexity, faster decision cycles and the need for constant innovation, brought about by unrelenting global competition, are [...]

In a flat world, strategic decisions are more complex, involve greater risk and must be made faster and better. Strategy used to be synonymous with long-term planning, spanning years, even [...]

In an ever-flattening world, organizations must quickly learn and adapt to changes in the marketplace. While we have become better at implementing new business processes, changing IT remains slow and [...]

Over the past several months, we have given you a glimpse into the Enterprise of the Future (EOF), a major initiative at the George Washington University Institute for Knowledge and [...]

It was only a decade ago when the warnings about the wave of retirements we're currently witnessing first sounded. Back then, most attempts to systematically pick a seasoned expert's brain [...]

Noon. You're wrapping up your third Skype (skype.com) video chat for the day and ready to break for lunch, which has just arrived. It's like a corporate 'meals on wheels' [...]

It's hard to believe we're already into the second decade of the 21st century. In the coming months, we'll examine both the opportunities and challenges headed our way, and why [...]

In our previous article, we discussed how KM and cloud computing were converging to form the knowledge cloud. As we were writing that piece, the Washington, D.C. area was recovering [...]

We have previously discussed the tremendous potential that arises when more than one billion minds are interconnected. The first wave of that transformation has come to fruition, enabling the interaction [...]

Last month, we looked at the current economic situation and how to use it as an opportunity to discard outdated business models and start introducing new ones. The idea was [...]

Every day, the world seems to kick it up a notch, both in the problems we face, as well as in the steady stream of scientific and technological breakthroughs. One [...]

I've always liked to keep one foot in the academic world and one in the 'real' world. Universities are good at developing theory, which provides foundational principles on which we [...]

A key ingredient in fast learning is capturing and sharing lessons-learned. That means continually assessing what's working, what's not working and finding ways to improve. When we discuss this notion [...]