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Gary Hamel on How Big Companies Inhibit Employee Creativity
In this video from Techonomy 2011 in Tucson, Ariz., Gary Hamel, director of Management Lab, challenges companies to let employees have the same financial and creative flexibility on the job that that...
View ArticleJack Dorsey on Working for Two Companies Full-Time
In this video from the “21st Century Individuals vs. 20th Century Organizations” session at Techonomy 2011 in Tucson, Ariz., Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick asks Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and...
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Working from Home Together: How Companies Use Collaboration Tools to Connect...
Working from home has become the norm for many corporate employees. One in five employees worldwide ‘telecommute’ on a regular basis. In the United States, more than 26 million people work from home on...
View ArticleLive Blog from the Intelligent Jobsites Conference
According to Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick,”The building industry is falling dangerously behind other parts of the economy, raising costs and potentially imperiling American competitiveness.” The...
View ArticleCompanies Confront the Madness of Crowds (Highlights)
Technology evolves quickly and employees and customers migrate to the new, even while companies stay attached to “legacy” systems. As the digitized crowd gets more capabilities, how do companies...
View ArticleUsing Quantified Self Tools to Ensure Workers Are Engaged
That monitoring employees’ every move will make them miserable might seem like Management 101, but an engineer and a psychologist say employers could have happier workers through surveillance. The idea...
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New Google Engineering Director, Kurzweil to Turn Visions to Reality
Credit: Photo by Michael Lutch. Courtesy of Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. Futurist, artificial intelligence pioneer, and author Ray Kurzweil announced Friday that he will start a new job on Monday, Dec....
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Making Robots Better Team Players
Humans are intelligent, yet unpredictable. Robots are programmed to be predictably logical. Can they get along? These days they don’t have much of a choice, as robots increasingly perform human tasks...
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Working at Home: Mayer May Be Right
Does proximity matter for innovation? Marissa Mayer thinks it does, and has been getting chastised for it. The Yahoo CEO recently ordered her fellow Yahooligans to stop working from home and come into...
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The Real Key to Innovation: A Great Place to Work
In the echo chamber of discussion since Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer ordered her employees to end telecommuting and move back into the office, there’s been a general consensus that telecommuting may make...
View ArticleWhere’s My Robot?
Your children may prefer their company, you may “hire” robotic workers, they may do our dirty work, and one may care for you in your old age. The future for robots seems boundless. Is there a limit to...
View ArticleEMC’s Joe Tucci
Joseph Tucci, Chairman and CEO of EMC, talks with Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick. Read excerpts from the conversation below, or download the full transcript. Kirkpatrick: I guess the first question I...
View ArticleCompanies Confront the Madness of Crowds
Technology evolves quickly and employees and customers migrate to the new, even while companies stay attached to “legacy” systems. As the digitized crowd gets more capabilities, how do companies react...
View ArticleSocial Is an Enterprise Feature
What is the emerging role of social media in business? Read the full transcript below, or download as a PDF. Kirkpatrick: Next we have another great McKinsey presentation on the role of social in...
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Think 3D Printing Is Exploding Now? Wait Till the Patents Expire
Last week 3D-printing industry watcher Terry Wohlers told Techonomy ”the sky is the limit” when it comes to the technology’s potential to transform manufacturing. Today, tech reporter Christopher Mims...
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John Hagel on How Businesses Build Around Innovation
John Hagel is a regular contributor for Techonomy and a director with Deloitte. He and John Seely Brown, co-chairs of Deloitte’s Center for the Edge, recently published a report tackling one of...
View ArticleMarissa Mayer on Encouraging Idea-Sharing in the Workplace
In this session from Techonomy 2011 in Tuscon, Ariz., Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo! and former Vice President of Consumer Products at Google, describes how an open work environment in offices...
View ArticleKevin Johnson of Juniper Networks on the Challenges of Disrupting Hierarchies
In this session from Techonomy 2011 in Tuscon, Ariz. Kevin Johnson, CEO of Juniper Networks, describes the different structural models businesses must evolve through, and the challenges they face in...
View ArticleSalesforce Chatter’s Kendall Collins on the Correlation Between Productivity...
Kendall Collins, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Saleforce Chatter, discusses how the correlation between productivity and social networks can be used to reproduce and leverage the traits...
View ArticleRypple’s Daniel Debow on the Corporate Shift from Hierarchy to Social Network
Daniel Debow, co-founder and co-CEO of Rypple, describes how the old hierarchal model of business is being replaced by a model that resembles the social graph, the networking model popularized by...
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