Hunome – new venture

Posted by  in May 31st, 2008  
Posted in: Entrepreneur, Hunome     Tags: , , , , ,

Shift from intrapreneur to entrepreneur – again Once a change agent always a change agent. I had a good run with that at CSC and now it is time to pull all my paths together into Hunome, a business which has been brewing for a very long time. It combines my experiences and passions in [...]

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Vignette – how to on foresight – people knowledge central

MAKE THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT CENTRAL Make the human context central to any strategic foresight activity. Do not be overly enamored with industry analysis, technology, or business trends and forget or overlook the role of people. Many activities produce impressive reams of data but haven’t thought through how the people affected would react or respond in [...]

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TED@Aspen 2008

Posted by  in March 19th, 2008  
Posted in: Innovation     Tags: , , , , , ,

What is it when your mind is whirling with ideas from many gorgeous passionate performances on stage, you meet wonderful people at every turn, you are in a beautiful location, the sun is shining and your heart says thank you – It’s TED in Aspen Colorado, end of February early March 2008. As you see [...]

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The unbearable lightness of ‘saying’

Posted by  in December 18th, 2007  
Posted in: Innovation     Tags: , , , , , ,

Judging young net companies by their current state and making that an immutable “It is not the social network sites that are interesting — it is the social network itself” This is just one of the sorts of quips I have read lately on the state of affairs on the net. On the positive side [...]

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If it can happen in Finland it can happen anywhere

Posted by  in December 4th, 2007  
Posted in: Life     Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Where balanced people go hunting and not so go on a rampage…. figuring who’s who in the zoo One month ago a student killed eight people at a school in Jokela, which is a small town about 50km from Helsinki the capital of Finland. He then killed himself, which, according to Finnish experts was what [...]

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Dual lib

Posted by  in December 3rd, 2007  
Posted in: Life     Tags: , , , , , , , ,

From women’s liberation to men’s liberation to dual liberation The 70s was the era of bra burning in some parts of the world, women demanding equal rights in areas, which were still behind like for example women in the work force, in management and leadership roles and representation in academia [they still are]. In the [...]

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On far and near worlds

Posted by  in July 19th, 2007  
Posted in: Life, Personal     Tags: , , , , , ,

Defining the meaning of far and near in the context of this site…and maybe other…let’s see The name far other worlds for this blog came about in a chat with a friend. I had started with a name like tuning to musings, which did not seem to gel with the experienced blogger. He asked: What [...]

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Language and brain

Posted by  in May 20th, 2007  
Posted in: Humanity, Personal     Tags: , , , ,

Bilingual fun…. Neuroscience is coming up with some fascinating pointers to what goes on when one speaks more than one language. I have been puzzled by what happens to me when I type and out comes a word in a different language or a word I use a lot. The research, a combination of neuroscience and [...]

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