I’m struck by the contrast between two recent announcements by Amazon and YouTube (a Google company) and the publication of a sample SharePoint governance document by Microsoft. On the one hand, Amazon and YouTube are offering attractive new services to authors, further disrupting the traditional publishing business model. On the other, it’s not at all … Continue reading
Originally published March 2006 McKinsey director Lowell Bryan argues that organizations would get a lot more value from their proprietary knowledge if they applied market principles to it. By this he means high value products, standards, incentives, facilitators, and the notion of independent buyers and sellers. Montague Institute founder Jean Graef thinks the market metaphor … Continue reading
