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, Strategic 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
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- 2014 Productivity Summit - Edmonton Alberta
November 26-27 2014 "...The conversations that took place over the day and a half were deep, insightful, and truly focused on the theme of asking “Why” we do things the way we do within our organizations..."
Recent Posts
- Innovation Ecosystems: A new way of seeing (Part 2)
- Innovation Ecosystems: A new way of seeing (Part 1)
- Creating a Culture of Innovation
- Latitudes of Acceptance (Rejection, or Non-Committment)
- Innovation and the Small & Medium Size Enterprise
- At Last: A Practical Guide to Knowledge Management
- 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?
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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.
Exceptional Sites
- Steve Barth's Reflexions
Simply the most thought provoking site on the web - Dave Snowden's Cognitive Edge
Cutting edge thinking, research and applications for dealing with complex problems and opportunties - Peter Cochrane
Professor Peter Cochrane (Co-Founder of ConceptLabs) - Jon Husband's Wirearchy
"...the transformation of hierarchies in the wired world..." - GO Productivity
"...focused on improving productivity and innovation in SMEs..."
Current Reading
May I Suggest:
Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Amory Lovins: Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era
Robert Porter Lynch: Business Alliances Guide: The Hidden Competitive Weapon
Cynthia M. Grabo: Anticipating Surprise: Analysis for Strategic Warning
Gerd Gigerenzer: Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
Gerald Nadler: Breakthrough Thinking: The Seven Principles of Creative Problem Solving
Jason Fried: Rework
(****)Nicholas Carr: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
(*****)- Judi N. Sandrock: The Art of Managing Knowledge: A Practitioner's Guide
This book provides a road map to either start a KM program from scratch, or use well defined processes and tools to conduct a diagnostic on an existing program – fine tuning for our current times of uncertainty. (****) L. E. Modesitt: The Eternity Artifact
Often fiction introduces, explains and develops concepts better than non-fiction - Look at chapter 1 and the "expectations of instantaneous response"! (*****)Gerd Gigerenzer: Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
The work behind Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, and a good and very readable companion to The User Illusion (****)Peter A. Gloor: Coolhunting: Chasing Down the Next Big Thing
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