Glostra blog

The Micro-origins of Organizational Routines and Competencies conference held last weekend in Suomenlinna, Helsinki, brought together top-researchers of the field to discuss the individual-level (beliefs, preferences, expectations, or abilities, characteristics) and aggregational (social interactional dynamics) factors that play a central role in the origins of organizational routines and capabilities.

My work and world in general are increasingly composed of zeros and ones flying here and there – a trend that I both like and resent simultaneously. I suspect all of you reading this are aware of at least the most obvious pros and cons of the internet taking over our lives, so I guess I can skip telling how life without email might actually do wonders for everyone's blood pressure, and cut straight to the point. This post is me offering a helping hand to ease the pains of everybody who spends a lot of time online doing collaborative work and needs to collect, store and share lots of different information. I hereby present thee my Top 5 chaos management tools.

How big a deal is IT? Is it really a ‘game changer’ for business? And if it is, does it change the game in a way that leaves the players looking more similar, or more differentiated from each other? 

In addition to planning the new Glostra web site I've been compiling a project into the Glostra Wiki, dealing with "Web 2.0", especially concentrating on the phenomenon's effects on the business world (Enterprise 2.0). The new tools transforming our dear web, making the user a key player in content generation and categorization, also present great opportunities for companies to enhance their operations. By a smart introduction of wikis, blogs, tagging systems and other social software, organizations can considerably promote both their internal and external information flows, collaboration between different parties, information findability and the hugely important creation of social ties and networks, essential to all knowledge workers.