Richard
- Richard Marrs is the founder and president of Altamont Consulting Group LLC. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, the group works with organizations, senior executives and their teams creating and executing Strategy, Alliances, Corporate Development, and Innovation. " Altamont is dedicated to improving our client's productivity, innovation, and performance by helping them Collaborate. Innovate. Transform."
Altamont Consulting Group
See You There!
- KM World 2009
November 17 - 19, 2009 San Jose McEnery Convention Center - Quantum Thinking Workshop
By Gerald Harris on September 12, 2009 10 am to 4 pm The Kabuki Hotel Spring Room 1625 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94115
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- AI
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- COGNITION
- COLLABORATION
- COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION
- COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
- COMPLEXITY
- CONTEXT
- CONTEXTURE
- CURRENT AFFAIRS
- EARLY WARNING
- INNOVATION
- INTUITION
- KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
- PREDICTION MARKETS
- RUMOR & RUMOR PSYCHOLOGY
- SENSING & SENSE-MAKING
- SOCIAL NETWORKING
- SOFTWARE DESIGN
- STRATEGY
- Web/Tech
Recent Posts
- Thriving in the Age of Complexity - With no answers, only choices
- Climate Change, Global Warming, et al: What’s missing in the public debate?
- Personal Work Space: to Order, or not to Order?
- To Study, Perchance to Dream?
- An Open Letter: Leadership and Strategy in the Crisis
- The Pervasive Expectations of Instantaneous Response
- Knowledge Tense: Past, Present and Future
- Strategy in the Current Crisis: Thinking and Acting in the Recession
- Increased Innovation Flows through Collaborative Innovation Architecture
- Inutition's Role in Decision Making-Redux
Archives
Categories
- AI
- Books
- COGNITION
- COLLABORATION
- COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION
- COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
- COMPLEXITY
- CONTEXT
- CONTEXTURE
- CURRENT AFFAIRS
- EARLY WARNING
- INNOVATION
- INTUITION
- KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
- PREDICTION MARKETS
- RUMOR & RUMOR PSYCHOLOGY
- SENSING & SENSE-MAKING
- SOCIAL NETWORKING
- SOFTWARE DESIGN
- STRATEGY
- Web/Tech
Definitions
- con·tex·ture(kən-tĕks'chər, kŏn'tĕks'-) noun: 1. The act of weaving or assembling parts into a whole. 2. An arrangement of interconnected parts; a structure. 3. A distinctive, complex underlying pattern or structure.
Current Reading
Gerald Harris: The Art of Quantum Planning: Lessons from Quantum Physics for Breakthrough Strategy, Innovation, and Leadership
Finally! After so many disappointments, here is a book that meets the (until now unfulfilled) promises of learnings from quantum physics applied to organizations and their functions. In particular, Gerald has drawn some unique perspectives on 7 key insights from quantum physics as they relate to strategy, planning and leadership. And, he doesn't stop there - he also gives you thoughtful and practical ways of application. Not simply a must read, but a book you need on your working bookshelf for everyday reference, application and inspiration. Watch for a blog post about this book. (*****)Joshua Cooper Ramo: The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
"..consider we have placed our future largely in the hands of people whose single greatest characteristic is that they are bewldered by the present... This says all you need to know about why you should be reading his book! More to say as I read it. Tell me what you think. (*****)
May I Suggest:
Gerd Gigerenzer: Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
Peter A. Gloor: Coolhunting: Chasing Down the Next Big Thing
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nicholas Difonzo: Rumor Psychology: Social And Organizational Approaches
Tor Norretranders: The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Penguin Press Science)
Eamonn Kelly: Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World
Exceptional Sites
- Steve Barth's Reflexions
Simply the most thought provoking site on the web - Arik Johnson's ReconG2 Journal
Unique views on the CI process - Dave Snowden's Cognitive Edge
Cutting edge thinking, research and applications for dealing with complex problems and opportunties - Coemergence
Take a look at their product: ACIS - Peter Cochrane
Professor Peter Cochrane (Co-Founder of ConceptLabs) - Mitch Betts' CorpIntel
Great site for future trends and CI - Jon Husband's Wirearchy
"...the transformation of hierarchies in the wired world..."
