Friday, September 25, 2009

II PII Conference October 1-2, 2009: preparing ecosystems design with e-Performance

The preparation of our coming PII Conference at ITSON (October 1,2) shows the use and application of e-performance to multiply the effectiveness and productivity of our team work.

PII project leaders -coordinated by Bernardo Flores- took over the task of hosting and recording preparation meetings using PII's Adobe Connect virtual classroom and effectively applying what they learned in the past semester Intellectual Capital & E-performance course to the organization of the coming conference.

You might want to check the examples by clicking on the images:

How was the experience for the online teams? What is it like for those who couldn't attend and saw the recorded meetings afterwards?

How can we use these tools for maximizing our impact?

Food for thought...


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PII New tools for ecosystems' design presented at ISPI St Louis Conference

PII's presentation of new tools for designing ecosystem at ISPI St. Louis Conference was a success.
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Participants from US, India and the EU tested a new set of tools PII developed for improving our ecosystem design adn made enthusiastic comments inquiring for our program.

The session started discussing a new. outside-in paradigm to improve organizational performance:
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Considering organizational performance as a function of the ecosystem where the organization operates helps overcome the conventional -and distorting- "MBA" and "engineering" paradigms that -by focusing only in internal organizational processes- fail to address the true "value creation engine": the client experience and to realize that the value creation chain starts and ends outside single organizations.

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Once we define the client experience, we might find that our organization can only deliver a part, a fraction of what is required by the client.
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PII's new methodology allows to identify those processes and products that will be "farmed out" or provided by third parties and design and organize an efective value chain coordinating multiple organizations in a single, cross-organizational process required to deliver the client experience:
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This model is, actually, not a "new" approach: its has been always the way reality works: multiple organizations provide a common, shared result, that Milton Friedman used to describe eloquenlty with the analysis of how a simple pencil gets in our hands:
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The "novelty" in our approach is that it overcomes the distortion and oversimplification of conventional MBA and engineering models that start and end their performance analysis inside a single organization -usually a shop floor or a "single bottom line" business case-, failing to explain where the value comes from and promoting a myopic -and often self-destructive- approach to business.
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Below you will find the reference materials we will discus and use at our coming PII Conference.
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Questions? Comments?
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G20 future goals open new opportunities

An interesting article on today's Financial Times shows the relationship between vision and mission: the G20 vision of a 2050 with only 2 degrees of extra global warming and US proposal to reduce carbon emisions 12 percent for that date -a vision statement related to survival and well-being fo future generations in a shared planet- is directly libke to Macro-level business opportunities for alternative energy options and industries.

Some might argue whether alternative energy is in itself enough to offset the damage of global warming, and if this is caused only by human activity or also by cyclical, natural factors that are beyond human presence but -whatever our cause analysis migth be-.

Those arguments, however, do not deny the importance of alternative energy efforts and might also invite to consider additional "human action" to offset the risk to human survival and well-being posed by natural phenomena -cyclical or not-.

Moving the discussion about global warming from basic science and politically motivated debates -like those around nuclear , carbon or hidroelectrical alternatives' downsides- the G20 goals help develop "mission statements" for different energy industries as well as to measure the size of the potential market.

What could be the opportunities for Southern Sonora region and PII projects in those future markets and trends?

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Intellectual Capital as value multiplier: Amazon poised to become Wal-Mart of the Web

17 years after its foundation -and several times after his announced demise by conventional business wisdom- Amazon is set to become the Wal Mart of the Web; not only the dominant online retailer and a growing rival of brick-and-mortar conventional retailers but most fundamentally, the hub of a B2B ecosystem that thrives during economic downturns thanks to its unique combination of intellectual capital value and smooth delivery.

Amazon's stock is valued 65 times its earnings against Wal-Mart's 15 times, showing the impact of its intellectual capital valuation.

Amazon is not only offering an ever growing array of goods and services online: it is also provinding a unique e-business platform for thousands of small and middle new businesses around the world that allows them to access a global markat and compete.

And on top of all that, Amazon is also franchising its logistics and merchandising expertise to help small business to become globally competitive.

How could our PII projects use and benefit from Amazon's concept and resources?

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