Nonlinear Thinking

Compendium/Miscellanea/Almanac 01.12.2011

Stuff that I find interesting.  Maybe you will too.

• Budgets, Innovation Squarely in CMOs' Sights in 2011 (Advertising Age) 
• Clouds, big data, and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch  (McKinsey Quarterly) 
• How Tech Will Be Critical to Corporate Sustainability in 2011 (Greenbiz) 
• Light My Fire: The Matchbook Makes a Cultural Comeback (Fast Company) 
• How Aha! Really Happens  (Strategy + Business) 
• Swimming Against the Tide: How Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Companies Can Prosper in the New Economic Reality  (Boston Consulting Group) 
• Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity  (TED)  
• The AI Revolution Is On  (Wired)  
• The Battle for Control of Smart Cities  (Fast Company) 

Are We Melting Yet?

 I understand and accept that the science surrounding climate change often appears to be inexact and that has driven some extraordinary polarization in the debate on the long term impacts, if any, that a changing climate might deliver.  However, I do believe that prudence should require every organization, and individual for that matter, to execute some scenario planning around the potentiality that a warmer planet might become the "new normal".  Personally, I think the Twin Cities have never looked better.