II just want to share this little peace of work about possible futures for the institution called: “Business Schools”. The name of the book is: Manifestos for the Business School of Tomorrow
I’m very happy to had been attending classes with some of the chapter’s book authors.
Special mention to Steven Brown (who is my supervisor) and professor Jones who is the first real philosopher of management that I know.
Anyway, enjoy the book. It is a fresh and lucid book. But be careful, becose could be dangerous for some more traditional minds…
In peace
This is a little post about a recently speech that gave Robert J. Zimmer At Columbia University in October 21, 2009.
The name of the conference: “What Is Academic Freedom for?”.
my 3 cents…
Nowadays and more than ever, academic freedom is at the central debate of our society. We have to be reflexive about its implications for research freedom and, using Zimmer words: “Universities are institutions with a long history and the prospects for a very long future. It is essential to preserve their value, their capacity for inquiry, discovery, and education over time, which will inevitably far outlast any particular political issue of the day, no matter how important it is”.
Discussions will be often difficult and sometimes we can even think that we are loosing too energy or time talking about our differences. But preserving the freedom will always be a struggle. It was and I is goin to be!.
I invite you to read this words here.
Any comments?
One of my frends send me this piece of work from Paul Krugman. I really agree with this economist about the historical development of this activity.
The paper is here
I personally think that economy as other sciences builded a discourse aout what is an what is not the reality. And I see the economy as a discipline that have too many certainties. It is looks like modernism have the limits in this field of study.
Read the paper. Your comments will be very wellcome.
I’m traying to process my own change experience here in Leicester…Too much information and too many information sources. A complex reality a multinational shock. A really brilliant and unique experience…
Everything is changing…I finished my time at UST.
Now I’m preparing for the big trip to Europe (UK) where I will study at University of Leicester PhD program.
I will be in Santiago of Chile until September 21th. Just to be with my family and celebrate some important chilean dates…
Hello my frends!.
This is a link of an interesting post from Adbusters.
I really think that economics indoctrination here in Chile is terrible…Chicago school of economy ideas are very deep inside of almost every chilean economy school and “serious” economist.
The most terrible is that management and business schools are also dominated for this monetarist ideas…No place for different ideas???.
If Harvard knows that there is need for diferent ideas. Why our lead business and economy schools don’t review the curriculums?.
Is there other ways to explain and understand our society?. Off course there is!!!.
Do Gregory Mankiw knows about the use of this book in chilean economy and business schools?.
I read a post from Navi Radjou about how big multinationals companies must change the R&D model for their laboratories that are developing products that will be market on countries like India, Brazil, and South Africa.
The link to the post is here.
He explained that these big organizations need to change from a pure technical vision of the R&D ( based on the technically-oriented engineers and scientists work) to a more cultural and development model based on a different type of professionals (Anthropologists and ethnographers and Development economists).
The argument sounds good but the post show any critical point about the capture of the value of the innovations that this companies are going to develop using this social science methodologies and methods.
At least this companies could develop more user oriented products and services. But for me this is not enough…
Why not to think about a research methodology where this broader consumer base in emerging markets co-develop the services and products that they need and in the mean time the same research process could empower the base of the piramid?.
It’s clear that Web 2.0 could offer some ways to do it. For example, the same companies could offer access to the web and to web pages of social networks where this huge consumer base explain especifications and features of the future products and services.
Well, this are just some ideas…What do you think?
You can find hard data about social sciences publications and their impact.
This report was published at Time Higher Education
Anyway, even if China is second on quantity with 413,326 papers between 2004-2008 (USA off course is at first place with 1,513,797 and UK is third with 401,649). The impact of chinese papers is lower (–38) versus +46 (USA) and +36 (UK).
Interesting numbers. isn’t it?
I read a Francis Fukuyama revision of Matthew B. Crawford book: “Shop Class as Soulcraft”.
This text was published on June 5 at the New York Time.
I’m purchasing the Crawford book.
In the meantime, you can check this essay from Matthew B. Crawford. He published “The Case for Working With Your Hands” on May 21, 2009 at the New York Times.
And also the book presentation.
I will try to comment further about the book in the future.
You can check it here.
Anyway, it is in spanish.
This article was the cover history of the BusinessWeek on June 3th.
I strongly recommend it for anybody on innovation and organization studies.
You can check it HERE.
The author showed a link between the histories of some organizations (companies) and the failed of their innovation processes.
The fail explanations for the cases were always based on the lack of commercialization knowledge.
Off course, I think that ANT (Actor Network theory) could offer a deeper explanation of the phenomena.
To see an academic explanation of the problem, based on other innovation cases, you can check: The Akrish, Callon and Latour (2002a) and (2202b) papers where they explain, based on Actor Network Theory; the success or fail of innovations.
I’m going to talk about this in future posts.
The Guardian has today (Tuesday May 11) published its league table of UK universities in which Leicester is ranked 15th. It joins two other Midlands universities, Warwick and Loughborough, in this top group.
The School of Management also recorded success in the Guardian league tables and was placed 2nd in the subject area of Business and management studies.Click here to view this league table.
Desde ese punto de vista, te invito lector, ¡sí a ti!. Te invito a percibir tu presente, aquí y ahora, sólo el presente, HOY. Las fuentes de alegría, de satisfacción, aquellas áreas de incertidumbre y transición, aquellas situaciones que te hacen sentir tensiones, a recibir todo sin cuestionamientos ni enjuiciamientos, sólo vivir.
Comparto con el autor David Gallagher lo dicho en su columna del 10 de Abril, “El mercado de las emociones”, respecto de la alta relación entre los ciclos de los mercados y las emociones de las personas.
Te invito a poner atención a tus habilidades, los dones que te han sido dados, tus destrezas. Tu trabajo, es entonces generar mayor fortaleza interior, mayor perseverancia, mayor determinación, mayor versatilidad, mayor flexibilidad, mayor creatividad, aprender a aprender, soportar los fracasos, soportar la carencia de éxitos. Cada cosa que nos cuesta, nos está señalando el camino al aprendizaje.
Debes recibir esta crisis, tal como viene, no te opongas, navega, busca en ti las herramientas. Pregúntate: ¿Qué estoy haciendo hoy por mejorar?. ¿Qué oportunidades de mejora me otorga esta crisis?.
Por último, ¿qué hago por apoyar a quien está pasando por estos sentimientos de crisis?. ¿En qué ayudo a mi pareja, a mi amigo que ha perdido el trabajo, a mi colega en el trabajo. Recuerda que las emociones tienen mucho que ver con lo que reflejo en los demás y lo que los demás reflejan en mí. No estamos solos en esta danza emocional que construye la crisis.
Te invito a vivir el presente, el aquí y ahora. Es en este preciso instante que encontrarás las soluciones, no en el futuro, ni menos en el pasado.
Ahora que comienzo una nueva etapa, me mantendré más comunicado a partir de este blog.
Será uno más de los medios para mi investigación, trabajo y para las clases que realizo.
Sds!!
Vía Emol
Darío Benavides es chileno y trabaja en Google como gerente de operaciones y soporte y decisiones estratégicas a nivel global. Está de visita en Chile y fue uno de los asistentes a la reunión de emprendedores que ayer se realizó en el Canal 13, First Tuesday. Explica que está en un “scouting trip”, o un viaje de exploración para Google, “para tomarle la temperatura al país”.
Y lo que ve no es tan satisfactorio como a todos nos gustaría. “Hay mucho entusiasmo, mucha gente, mucha plata. Pero faltan buenas ideas”, dice tajante.
Agrega dos factores preocupantes: “Hay una desconexión entre lo que se está enseñando en las universidades y lo que está pasando en las compañías”, y alega que hay muy pocos técnicos de buen nivel.
“Si yo vengo y leo un currículum veo que no hay técnicos”, dice. Y si a eso agregamos que muy pocos hablan inglés el panorama no es muy atractivo para empresas extranjeras. Coincidentemente, son los mismos dos argumentos que se entregaron durante la conferencia de ayer de Cisco.
Latinoamérica, dice Benavides, es estratégico para Google y desde su perspectiva debería reforzarse acá “deberíamos mirar más”. Y Chile, a pesar de las deficiencias que tiene, sigue siendo un buen prospecto, principalmente por la seguridad y la estabilidad económica y política que ofrece, entre otras ventajas que mantiene, como el tratado de libre comercio que mantiene con EE.UU.
Por eso, llama a las universidades, principalmente, a aterrizar sus currículums a la realidad nacional y crear profesionales que las compañías necesiten.
A mi este tipo de noticias, me ponen triste… Me recuerdan aquella ya muy comentada, de cuando Chile perdió la oportunidad de tener a Intel con una planta en Chile.
Queda mucho, mucho por hacer!!!. Vamos con la tecnología y con el inglés!!
Dear All:
I read a post from consultaglobal. It is quite interesting!.
The post explain a little bit more about Nokia’s ideas about innovation.
I can see that they are very open to copy and adapt and also to create new products and services.
“If there is something good in the world we will copy it with pride (…) if we are the inventor we take the inventor’s pride with the same rigor. It really doesn’t matter [one way or another]”. Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Nokia’s Multimedia unit.
The internet and the open technologies are changing the way that we are doing ventures and pushing for new organisational cooperative capabilities. Cooperation between the people that works inside an extra-organisational networks.
“Take the Internet with its open technologies and the open-end standards used. This will now be much more difficult for companies that don’t already have the right mentality and assets in place”. Jarkko Sairanen, Nokia’s former VP of Corporate Strategy.
As we said before in a post (crowdsourcing strategy) open innovation is going to be the way that organizations will follow.
They are using open standarts, they are also going to cocreate and do coconfigurations with the clients not just with the etnographer work and his page at Nokia.
Finally, the strategy must have a Systems approach. It is a complex world that is demanding systemic views.
Enjoy the article from consultaglobal.
I founded via Science Blog a post about a new report research from the University of Texas at Austin where they followed up a group of 2,592 adults.
A central discover is that employees who have more control over their daily activities and do challenging work they enjoy are likely to be in better health.
John Mirowsky, a sociology professor with the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin establish that: ”The most important finding is that creative activity helps people stay healthy”.
This kind of news makes me think about the society that we are building up. Is there more oportunities for knowledge workers in our underdevelop countries?.
The study is about people who works in a creative environment included those in which people work in assembly lines. Jobs that are high-status, with managerial authority, or that require complex work with data, generally provide more access to creative work.
John Mirowsky also said that: “The health advantage of being somewhat above average in creative work (in the 60th percentile) versus being somewhat below average (in the 40th percentile) is equal to being 6.7 years younger,”
Will our boys and girls going to be involved in a real “information economy”?
What can we do to create companies where the value came from intellectual assets?
JF
Dear All,
Nokia and Google again!!.
Via Experientia I’m reading about the user experience for Nokia and Google.
They both really used to be a mobile phone company and a internet service company. But not any more!.
Eric Pfanner, clearly explained the convergence.
If you want to read more about Pfanner ideas, please visit this link
I’m actually thinking that the movements that we had been seeing at this industries show a very interesting trend.
If we add this convergence and the last McKinsey Quaterly article (You need to be registered, but the basic is free). We can see some interesting future possibilities.
They said that the cocreation, the use of of consumers as innovators and extracting more value from interactions and others trends, need to be carefully analysed by managers and analyts.
So, convergence between wired comunication and internet possibilities became clearly the technical base for the Business technology trends that Mckinsey are talking about.
We can see a future where the consumer cocreate or do a coconfiguration of the services using a platform as google, mediated by its mobile device (moustly a mobile phone).
What do you think about it?
Todos los que trabajamos en administración, educación de negocios y economía, comprendemos la importancia del desarrollo de la economía norteamericana para el resto del mundo.
Es por ello, que les dejo un link a un artículo de America Economía.
El artículo se titula: ¿Es imposible prever qué le espera a la economía americana?
Espero que sirva para generar entendimiento, respecto de los procesos que vive dicha economía.
Un saludo,
Juan Felipe
Ahora que estamos llegando al final del 2007, les comento que el año 2008, vendrá cargado de nuevos proyectos.
Espero contar con todas sus ideas, para seguir avanzando.
Un abrazo,
Juan Felipe Espinosa
