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Tag: culture

  • Slacking.

    Yes. eMail is still a favourite topic of mine. Years later, it’s still the one single medium, that allows communicating across organisational boundaries. It’s still the one medium that allows to reach out to random people, e.g. for marketing. Despite the difficulties GDPR introduced for marketeers in 2018, driving a lot of marketing to proprietary,…

  • Implementing feedback into our work culture

    Healthy organizations are places in which feedback is encouraged, even if it’s about issues that are not easy to hear. How does this work? Source: Implementing feedback into our work culture

  • 100 Best Memes Of The Decade

    Do you still remember Memes from the 2010s? Like Sad Keanu, the Ice Bucket Challange, The Rent Is Too Damn High, the Harem Shake, Bottle Flipping, Bronies, Gangnam Style, Harambe, Vine, or even Kermit? Peppridge Farm remembers. From planking to VSCO girls. Source: 100 Best Memes Of The Decade

  • What you do is who you are.

    Ben Horowitz, of Andreessen Horowitz (software is eating the world), wrote a new book. It is titled “What you do is who you are.“, and will, following the announcement, discuss corporate cultural standards and how they changed over the years, of course with a particular focus on the tech industry. It’s a hot candidate for…

  • Demo-Scene proposed as part of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage

    The Demoscene, which is born at the heart of the home computer revolution, has been showing how skills and creativity can be stimulated and implemented in a dynamic cultural practice adopted to digital contexts. Many of its techniques and mindsets became core techniques and influences of the digital change, and are still vibrant today.

  • Of listening and contributing

    With knowing marketing personal and products, I particularly liked the image/text link on the article. Listening to your customer is a skill that most organisations lost in their size and product managers never learned in their bubble. Your customer doesn’t express his experience in KPIs nor does he respond to NPS surveys. Frontal address only…

  • Culture and Organizational Change

    Culture and Organizational Change

    Just a small observation I made during AWS Transformation Day. While the entire theme for the event was on transforming business, the schedule had one track for “Culture and Organizational Change” alone. While Culture and Organizational Change is a broad and huge topic, but it is necessary and makes the difference for agility in rapidly…

  • Culture eats Strategy for Breakfast

    “Culture eats Strategy for Breakfast” is a quote that is often attributed to Peter F. Drucker, but was apparently coined by Ford’s Mark Fields. Whoever said it, both have plenty of business acumen to take some credit for the thought behind it. There statement has lot of truth in it, looking into corporate structures. With the…

  • About Hackathons

    Selling Out and the Death of Hacker Culture By Rodney Folz.

  • Mediaculture online: Cloud Computing

    Übersicht über die Dienste und Inhalte der Wolke: Cloud Computing. via Mediaculture Online.