5 Links: Technology Will Change Your BM:
Business Model, that is. All of the breathy talk about disruption really boils down to shifting business models.
5 Links: Technology Will Change Your BM
Business Model, that is. All of the breathy talk about disruption really boils down to shifting business models. When a replacement idea enters the marketplace, it always comes from an unseen direction. The initial endeavors are low cost and low quality. But, growth can solve both of those problems.
In order to understand the threat (40% of CEOs believe that there business will be rearranged by outside forces within five years), you have to keep your eyes on the outside world
- Government By The People in the 21st Century
Tim O’Reilly, the oracle of Silicon Valley, has been pushing government reform through technology for a very long time. As his set of design and utilization principles enter the government workforce, expect that interfaces will change. Many of the large scale data problems in HR begin with a flow of data between the company and the government. Expect competitors to slither out from under the rocks. Scanning this slide share will get you looking in the right direction. - Extracting Audio From Video Data
In this experiment, MIT researchers were able to pull audio content (a conversation) from a video of a bag of chips. The vibrations on the bag were enough to reconstitute the conversation. What won’t be recorded or accessible at work? - Is There Any Way to Avoid Standards Wars in the Emerging Internet of Things?
People are things in the Internet of Things. The latest word smithing tries to move the conversation to something about the IOPT (Internet of People and Things). Whatever. People and things are data flow generators. As that data flow increases in volume, so will the interconnects between the various hunks of data. As always, there will be a core of vendors who claim that standards solve the problem. There will be (or at least should be) an equal and opposing force of users who want freedom from standards because standards inhibit innovation. This conversation will echo around the halls of HRTechnology conversations. - Somebodies Not Nobodies
Regular readers will recognize Bob Lefsetz right away. In this rant, he takes on the democratization of publishing. He says, “Now that’s just what I want. Someone who can’t write, who’s got no authority, inserting themselves into the few bastions of fact left, so I’m confused and don’t know what is true.” This is the problem of the B2B online conversation about HR. The conversation is big on assertion and low on credibility. The same thing happens when companies unleash all employees as ‘brand ambassadors’ without skills training. - Misfit: Shine
Here’s the reality of wearable monitors. This version is discrete and about the size of a quarter. Next year, it will be more capable and the size of a dime. The following year it will be even more capable and the size of a pencil eraser (the one on the pencil). They’ll be in your office and you’ll be watching the data flow.
Bonus Link
- The Recently Quantified Parent
This piece from the Atlantic gives a good view of how to use monitoring and when to turn it off.
Events (I’ll be there):
- HCM Master Class: Chicago September 16, 2014 (all-day event) Add to Calendar
- HRTech – Las Vegas – October 7-10, 2014 Add to Calendar
- HRTech Europe – Amsterdam October 23-24, 2014 Add to Calendar
