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Coverage from Microsoft Switzerland's Executive Circle
TechFlash, by Todd Bishop - Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 10:17am PDT
Six years later, a report from Microsoft's 'Board of the Future'
Dan Rasmus, who organized the Board of the Future initiative as Microsoft's director of information work vision, also stays in touch with many of the board members. Now an independent strategy consultant and author, he has been strongly influenced by the Board of the Future experience, which helped to shape his current work in corporate strategy and long-term scenario planning.
What lessons should be taken from the Board of the Future? "The biggest thing for me was that companies like Microsoft need to be continuously learning organizations," he says. "That’s something that needs to be part of their DNA. That means not just listening to people that they normally listen to, but listening to a wide range of voices. That was one of the things that we did with this."
Read how Dan's SharePoint talk inspired Sadalit Van Buren's thinking on non-linear process. Click here!
Dan quoted in Business redefined whitepaper from Ernst & Young that was released at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Africa this week. Tanzania, May 5 to 7
Here is a quote:
“One possible scenario could be the emergence of ‘citizen
regulators.’ Bloggers are already exposing more of companies’
internal workings, and their voices have been amplified by the
ability of social media to communicate to audiences with an
interest in the organization. You may start to see employees
using these media to lobby for change in a way that they have
not done before.”
Daniel W. Rasmus, Strategy Consultant and Author, Listening to the Future
Gilbane Conference San Francisco 2010 Coverage:
Take some time to Listen to the Future in HD 215 at Bellevue College this Spring. http://bit.ly/avGUzf.
SharePoint 2009 Conference coverage:
October, 2009
"To be clear, Dodge and Rasmus are putting out lots of interesting content, and they're definitely worth following. (I was already following Dodge on Twitter, and I've read his informative blog for years. I also just signed up to follow Rasmus.) But on a site created for the specific purpose of tracking the tweets of top business executives, some people might be expecting more."
Listening to the Future is now an Amazon Kindle book.
'But it's the cultural consequences of shunning the corporeal moment in favor of the virtual one that are murkier. Dan Rasmus, director of business insights at Microsoft and co-author of Listening to the Future: Why It's Everybody's Business, calls one effect digital autism: When you're engrossed in the digital world, you're more disconnected from the social and physical world. In particular, it's the so-called virtuals, those born after 1999, who need watching. "They have parents and elder siblings behaving in a different way, so what are they learning about what's the right way to behave?"'