On the operating models of businesses that build on ecosystems: they are not building moats to keep competitors out, they are operating turnstiles.

Discussions at the Drucker Forum management meeting on ‘ecosystems’ as new management paradigm.

Steve Denning on what management can learn from IT. From agile software to organizational agility.

​A plea for purpose-driven business, taking into account all stakeholders and including societal impact.

On the importance of small groups in organizations. Regardless of context, the small groups that can set in motion exponential impact do so by focusing on both the long-term and the short-term at the same time. These small groups are constantly looking ahead and framing inspiring opportunities and outcomes that will take a long time to achieve. 

Platform thinking expert Sangeet Choudary shows how online platforms can create new markets and reinvent consumer and producer interactions.

One of the very few recent examples of corporate reinvention comes from Takeda, Japan’s leading pharmaceutical company. How a large, healthy listed company reinvented itself in three years. What can we learn from them?

Rather recently, Clayton Christensen passed away. He is best known for his work on disruptive innovation. In this article, the most important of his writings are summarized and referred to.

Short critical article on neglecting the human factor in the planning of smart cities.

An extensive update on the state-of-the-art of self-driving cars. Engineering teams at Tesla, GM, Honda, and others are struggling to make self-driving cars work properly.

Critical article on the claims AI makes, stressing the importance of the human factor. “At its core, ‘artificial intelligence’ is a perilous belief that fails to recognize the agency of humans.”

Opiniërend artikel over het gebruik/potentiële misbruik van AI in het publieke domein.

Banjo is applying artificial intelligence to government-owned surveillance and traffic cameras across the entire state of Utah to tell police about “anomalies.”

Opinion article. Google made almost all its money from ads. It was a booming business — until it wasn’t.

In her TEDxLBS talk, Dr Gah-Yi Ban lays out fundamental (ethical) truths about algorithms. A plea for a forum where both creators and users of algorithms that affect people’s lives can get together to discuss potential issues, before the algorithms are deployed on a massive scale. 

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