VUCA is an acronym used to describe or reflect on the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of general conditions and situations. The common usage of the term VUCA began in the 1990s and derives from military vocabulary and has been subsequently used in emerging ideas in strategic leadership that apply in a wide range of organizations, including everything from for-profit corporations to education.
We've had revolution in Tunisia, Egypt's Mubarak is teetering; in Yemen, Jordan and Syria suddenly protests have appeared. In Ireland young techno-savvy professionals are agitating for a "Second Republic"; in France the youth from banlieues battled police on the streets to defend the retirement rights of 60-year olds; in Greece striking and rioting have become a national pastime.
In this new RSA Animate, Manuel Lima, senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, explores the power of network visualisation to help navigate our complex modern world. Taken from a lecture given by Manuel Lima as part of the RSA's free public events programme.
Live blog notes from Stowe Boyd's session at the Meaning Conference. Boyd shares his ideas on the social workplace. Model of social biz is out of date So we have to imagine the postnormal business. We have to imagine a future where the way we work and play will fundamentally change.
We are well aware that to survive and thrive in the VUCA world, we need to be agile in all respects - in learning, towards change, regarding work as well as life. We talk about learning agility, organizational agility, individual agility, agile as a philosophy and much more.
Watch Gary Hamel, celebrated management thinker and author and co-founder of the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), make the case for reinventing management for the 21st century. In this fast-paced, idea-packed, 15-minute video essay, Hamel paints a vivid picture of what it means to build organizations that are fundamentally fit for the future-and genuinely fit for human beings.
Welcome to the age of increasing complexity, volatility, interdependence, diversity, ambiguity, flux and more. Bring it on. Our team ended the year with gratitude for all we had learned and accomplished -- and with a resolution to start 2015 with a plan to somehow make it feel less crazy.
Nobody would deny that the world has become more complex during the past decades. With digitization, the interconnectivity between people and things has jumped by leaps and bounds. Dense networks now define the technical, social, and economic landscape.
Josh Bersin's presentation on 21st Century Talent Management: Imperatives for 2014 and 2015 highlights some of the following as the key areas where the biggest capability gaps exist: Leadership, Re-skilling HR, Talent Acquisition and Access, T alent and HR Analytics, Reinventing L&D, and so on.
Why do people feel so miserable and disengaged at work? Because today's businesses are increasingly and dizzyingly complex -- and traditional pillars of management are obsolete, says Yves Morieux. So, he says, it falls to individual employees to navigate the rabbit's warren of interdependencies. In this energetic talk, Morieux offers six rules for "smart simplicity."
Servant leadership is both a leadership philosophy and set of leadership practices. Traditional leadership generally involves the accumulation and exercise of power by one at the "top of the pyramid."
Two years after we published The New Social Learning , I still hear people say "there is no definition" or worse yet, defining it in truly silly ways. A post with a slide of my definition is consistently one of the most popular posts on this site so I thought people might appreciate more on how I define the terms and what social learning is not.
I could go on, but most people will have similar experiences. One of the real issues here is the fact that all local services has been sub-contracted with complicated processes for variation and the like.
Most of today's large companies set themselves up with some form of a matrix of functions, geographies, markets, products etc. Matrix organizations have become the essential structures for running successful multi-functional, multi-region companies. However, rarely does work get done wholly within a function or region.
UPDATE: See also Social or Fauxial Learning? As organisations "go social" (a term increasingly used to refer to one that is adopting an enterprise social or collaboration platform) , I am often asked: "How do you make people learn socially?"
Hoe kun je sociale media inzetten bij leer- en veranderprocessen? Dat is de vraag die ons als LOSmakers bezig houdt, en waar we in onze praktijk aan werken. We zijn allemaal gedreven en bevlogen experts en vinden collegiale kennisuitwisseling, experimenteren en innoveren belangrijk. Sinds de zomer van 2010 treffen we elkaar, online en face-to-face.
The acronym VUCA - volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity - accurately describes the conditions under which organisations, corporations and institutions operate in the world today. As there is no predictability or way to plan for every issue or problem that may arise, it becomes necessary to plan for any issue that may arise.
Ecocycle Planning Analyze the Full Portfolio of Activities and Relationships to Identify Obstacles and Opportunities for Progress (95 min.) What is made possible? You can eliminate or mitigate common bottlenecks that stifle performance by sifting your group's portfolio of activities, identifying which elements are starving for resources and which ones are rigid and hampering progress.
State of the Net 2013 - Trieste (Italy), May 31st and June 1st Keynote speech How not to manage complexity Dave Snowden, chief scientific officer at Cognitiv...
Is today any more volatile, uncertain, complex or ambiguous (VUCA) than previous ages? That's up for debate, but nobody denies that volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity are major chall...
The Exploring Social MOOC takes place using the following platforms:
Curatr - core learning content and conversation. New content is released weekly on a Monday Twitter - link sharing and weekly twitter chats: Wednesdays 20:30GMT Google doc - share links to content you create or discover Listly - same purpose as the Google doc, but funkier and easier to share Google hangouts - weekly on a Sunday 16:30 GMT casual chat and reflections watch, join in, or just ask a question. Google community site - a space to have longer conversations or reflections, connect outside of Curatr and share your thoughts or findings
Just a few years after massive Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) disrupted the field of education by offering university-level education programs to everyone for free, they’re already in need of…
People connect to form groups on Twitter for a variety of purposes. The networks they create have identifiable contours that are shaped by the topic being discussed, the information and influencers driving the conversation, and the social network structures of the participants.
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