
This column deals with some aspects of change management processes
experienced almost in any industry impacted by the digital revolution: how to
select, create, gather, manage, interpret, share data and information either
because of internal and usually incremental scope - such learning, educational and
re-engineering processes - or because of external forces, like mergers and
acquisitions, restructuring goals, new regulations or disruptive technologies.
The title - I Changed My Mind Reviewing Everything - is a tribute
to authors and scientists from different disciplinary fields that have illuminated
my understanding of intentional change and decision making processes during the
last thirty years, explaining how we think - or how we think about the way we
think. The logo is a bit of a divertissement, from the latin
divertere that means turn in separate ways.
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How to cite this column?
icm2re [I Changed my Mind Reviewing Everything ISSN 2059-688X (Online)]. By
Brunella Longo.
Full-text accessible at http://www.icm2re.com/
- 3.12 | December 2014: Lessons learned from the defeat
of Google Authorship and catalogues' contests
About the furore of data fundamentalists against digital copyright
[...] What does it mean reducing differences to insignificant
variations of what tends to be inevitably the same digital stuff, once we remove
the human responsibility and the original intellectual contributions provided by
different authors? [...]
- 3.11 | November 2014: Nothing like a wrong bankruptcy
order to spoil my reputation?
Nudging the nudgers on gamification of governance and cybercrime
[...] I just suggested we should change the governance game,
as this perpetuation of a Cop and robbers play in financial services,
managing and mismanaging people money, is just another way to incentivise more
tricks and clever scams in spite of very important internationally recognised
principles of good practice and fundamental rights [...]
- 3.10 | October 2014: Let social media battles end or,
at least, be traceable and regulated
About data management, programmatic advertising and other digital challenges
for brands
[...] I have found the recent Lego vs Greenpeace saga very
disturbing and in some ways shocking as it revealed the ferocity of the media
competition for the control of marketing and communication expenditures by global
brands. It has also said something about the difficulties of managing changes
while staying (or being put) in the public eye [...]
- 3.9 | September 2014: Repetita don't always
iuvant
Open letter to my two Countries about digital innovation processes
[...] Switching from Amazon to Sainsbury's websites and
vice-versa is almost seamless for the digital buyer. That is the fundamental
reason why requirements for brand differentiation and loyalty strategies work
very differently for online outlets. So that the perils of overstating and
overestimating web analytics - seeing intelligent design and intentional pathways
in what is just network data and browsing / searching clutter - is endless
[...]
- 3.8 | August 2014: Atoms need precision
Why no real change can occur in an aesthetic vagueness of words or
meanings
[...] A recent biographic exhibition - that I have found
marvellous - on Kenneth Clark, british historian, curator and broadcaster,
encouraged me to reconsider the case of an exhibition I visited in Paris two
years ago that has remained unpleasantly hermetic to me in respect of most of its
contents for a long while: it was a complex, difficult and nevertheless
fascinating and important exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, entitled
Multiversités créatives [...]
- 3.7 | July 2014: Global internet governance needs more
than the european right to be forgotten
About three assurance requirements for internet developments
[...] internet businesses must be everybody's business, in
only one common regulated world of Nations and Governments, in which no
institution should be deprived of or existing without appropriated ways to manage
and preserve its collective memory - that consists at its very foundation level
of nothing more than the digital equivalent of the Domesday Book, called
Whois.
- 3.6 | June 2014: You said that!
About being a rutilant innovator and persistent learner
[...] influencing and persuading professional communities and
innovating practices and behaviours among peers is not just a matter of brilliant
ideas envisaged by creative people or commitment fostered by leading stakeholders
[...]
- 3.5 | Special Election Day 2014: So do you want to
bully me? And how?
Why atheism is better than multiculturalism for peace and wellbeing - and even
to fight bullying and defend pensions
[...] Atheists do not practice mind-reading, do not see
religious metaphorical messages, opportunities or hidden values behind human
fortunes, misfortunes and daily facts of life. Instead, atheists believe in
natural ethical principles such reciprocity, responsibility, accountability and
in the universality of human rights [...]
- 3.4 | May 2014: Do you sell Executive MBAs? Keep
waiting!
About information management challenges for executive education
[...] There is a common bias leading many executives to
assume information management expertise is always included in contracts for other
management or IT services (from risk management or due diligence advice and
training to supply of IT systems) or it is simply redundant and without peculiar
business justification in their contexts [...]
- 3.3 | April 2014: Watch that change that changes
anything!
About managing interdependencies through a collaborative scheduling
policy
[...] In order to reduce the complexity of the scheduling and
resourcing tasks I defined a policy that put in place some general rules, very
simple to communicate and to agree with team members as well as with actual and
potential customers so that certain activities and their interdependencies were
consensually baselined. In this way we were able to identify variance risks well
in advance and to proactively funnel customers and team members to alternative
schedules [...]
- 3.2 | March 2014: Let's close in on privacy
crimes
About the sudden naivety of special data protection laws
[...]"Proper disclosure and the organisation of proper
arrangements for disclosure - I am quoting Arlidge & Parry on Fraud, 4th ed,
2014 here - will advance the interests of justice to all the parties to the trial
rather than hinder it by burying the real issues beneath mountains of paper,
accompanied by satellite skirmishing, is fundamental"[...]
- 3.1 | February 2014: I do not want your passwords! Can
emotional intelligence help with IT requirements?
An organisational and holistic look at data security perversion
[...] Instead of valuing appreciative enquiries, diversity,
new associative and critical thinking or original perspectives that bring about
change, such dysfunctional environments tend to encourage imitation of the most
contagious, childish and simplistic behaviours. [...]