I have designed my home page as a place where you can get a taste for what I am involved in now and as a place where I can point you to conversations and collectives that I find interesting and valuable.
As a quick introduction, I am working to build this site as one node in a network of conversations around service design, networked networks, and the space of action in which they reside. It is an experiment and ask for any suggestions or advice you have about how to build a more valuable site for everyone, including myself.Below are collectives and conversations that I have been involved in or have just begun to follow that I find potentially valuable and interesting in my various domains of interest: including services, ontological design, networks, and open source journalism. If there are any conversations you know about that you would like to see up here, drop me a line at mo_@mac.com.
Recent Changes to the Site:
- Productivity Collectives: Steve March, Charles Follett, and I are writing a collaborative paper about productivity collectives -- such as TPS, Six Sigma, Agile, and Open Source -- with the purpose of creating a context to better understand their value and re-appropriate their practices in whatever context you are working in. Take a look at our working notes here. If you are interested in joining the conversation, please send me an e-mail.
- Descartes and the Cartesian Style: I have added a document I wrote a while back with Maria Flores-Letelier. This document was intended to be used as a theoretical discussion to improve our consulting work and our ability to contribute to people's capacity to innovate. Please take a look and let me know what you think.
Services
- Redefining Health Care: Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg's site on value-based competition in health care.
- Viral Marketing Strategy: an introduction to "Strategies for Viral Marketing," a paper written by Maria Flores Letelier, Charles Spinosa, and Bobby J. Calder.
Ontological Design:
- The Center for Design Research at Stanford University: a collective understanding and improving engineering design innovation and design education.
- Six Sigma: A community using and discussing Six Sigma, a methodology using data and statistical analysis to identify problems in order to improve operations in a company's manufacturing and service domains. Also, check out Michael Marx's blog showing Six Sigma experiences in various companies.
- Agile Software Development: an online community involved in discussing what Agile software development is and in continuing to build the story of agile methods several years after key members in the field created the Agile Manifesto.
- Chile País de Diseño
Web 2.0 Networks
- Assignment Zero: a crowd-sourced experiment in journalism about...crowd-sourcing
- The Berkman Center for Internet & Society: A research program founded to explore, study, and develop cyberspace. A collective that is networking with main cyber lawyers, journalists, computer scientists, etc.
- OhmyNews International: the first Citizen Media journal which accepts, edits and publishes news of its readers.
- Atina Chile: a group in Chile oriented around the construction of Chilean culture and identity through the use of Web 2.0 tools and the potential of universal broadband access. Conversations in this larger collective are active in many domains, including education, politics, business, journalism, art.
- Open Access News: A professor at Earlham College, Peter Suber, has been tracking developments in the world of Open Access, "the free online access to digital scholarly material," since 2001. You find recent news as well as his assessments about how the academic and communal spaces are changing and predictions about where things will continue to move.
Other Valuable Collections
- Alexander Grothendieck: In the mathematical community, Alexander Grothendieck is the most respected figure of the 20th century. He is considered to have revolutionized various fields of math, including re-building Algebraic Geometry from scratch. He received the Fields Medal, the Nobel Prize in Math, in 1966. And two decades later, he wrote this letter stating his reasons for refusal of the Crafoord Prize. I find it an interesting letter. What does it take for someone who is so prolific in a highly abstract field to give this high value to the practicality of life?