Director Business Development Public Sector at CSC Germany. Author of "Machiavelli.net". Proud father of three. Welcome to my blog.Category Archives for Blog
Open Statecraft: Strategic Thinking for a Many-to-Many Society
We live in a world where information and communication technologies have confronted us with new logics of collective action that allow new forms of organization that need new forms of strategic thinking. With the digitization of value creation and the … Continue reading
Rethinking Idle Time
This weekend, I was playing around with my new Amazon Kindle 3. I was loading as many classics (Plato, Aristotle, Sun-Tzu and Cory Doctorow) that are freely available onto the Kindle, on the hunch that whenever I would have some … Continue reading
Sketching a Planetary Public Policy Approach
As I am wrapping up my time at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, it is time to write down some of the lessons I learned here at Erfurt University, where Martin Luther developed some of the frameworks for … Continue reading
Ignoring the ROI of Openness
I am back from Berlin, where we were discussing at the google collaboratory how to evaluate the impact of open government. While the excitement about enterprise 2.0, government 2.0, and open government has been building, critical voices in organizations have … Continue reading
Open Statecraft for a Brave New World
Open government is the doctrine and governance approach which holds that the business of government and state administration should be opened at all levels to effective public scrutiny and oversight to improve capacity and legitimacy of collective action. It outlines … Continue reading
C-H-A-O-S and the Open Value Chain
John Maynard Keynes once famously quipped that “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”There are four authors of the 20th Century that have become background knowledge … Continue reading
New Statecraft and New Strategy
I am sitting in my apartment at Peapody Terrace, overlooking the Charles River wrapping up my time at Harvard. Teaching in the collaborative governance program with Jack Donahue, Akash Deep, Tony Gomez-Ibanez, Chris Letts, Edgar Aragon and Mary Hilderbrand was … Continue reading
Strategy 2.0 is not a 2.0 Strategy
Yesterday, I was giving a talk at the Salzburg Business School in Schloss Urstein for Austrian business leaders. My main argument was that we should not think about 2.0 strategies, i.e. the integration of twitter, facebook, Xing into our communication … Continue reading
My Talk at the ISPRAT CIO Conference in Vienna
I am just coming back from a wonderful day of debate with Germany’s and Austria’s top policy makers in the information technology field. The conference headlined by the new German CIO was titled Information and Communication Technologies as Strategic Instruments … Continue reading
The Tip of the Iceberg
The following video is a virtual choir of 200 voices from 12 countries that were brought together by conductor/composer Eric Whitacre. The project has all the attributes of what we expect of networked organizations: Disintermediation of space and time, asynchronous … Continue reading
