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Topic: Culture Change
The NEXOS wave
Earlier this week, we introduced our thinking around digital culture. Using the invented word NEXOS, we briefly described our concerns over how digital information and digital technology proliferation are affecting people’s lives. As people in our mid 30s to 40s we remember life before the technology was so deeply embedded in social and working lives. We don’t want to turn back the clock, but we do want to understand how behaviours and attitudes are changing, and what choices we might make as individuals to stay sane in this new age of constant information. Continue reading
Our thinking has been shaped by things we read, and much of that has been online. When we think about a Next Operating System - or NEXOS - it's something that relates to five broad themes:
I. Lost art of conversation and increasing trend ...MORE >
A 3-min movie on Rachel Botsman’s Collaborative Consumption
I produced this short movie in January 2012 as part of the RSA/Nominet Trust Film Competition. The film was immediately featured by Rachel Botsman’s website and went on to attract over 1000 plays in the first four weeks. Continue reading
Although our movie was not selected by the judges, it was chosen for a TEDx in Leeds on the Future of Money in February that was picked up in the Guardian online, and continues to circulate in the Peer-to-Peer global community of which ...MORE >
The Elements of Culture: Grant McCracken and Hofstede’s Onion
Following on from my post about why tracking the evolution of culture is important, I make an attempt at a synthesis between Grant McCracken’s “Fast and Slow Culture” concept and Geert Hofstede’s Onion Diagram of the elements of culture, searching for some clues on how culture evolves. Continue reading
In my previous post, I outlined why it's important to track emergent changes in culture. Ever since I heard Grant McCracken speak in London at the end of May 2010, I've been thinking about how his definition of "fast" and "slow" culture fit with ...MORE >
Why do we need to track emergent culture change?
“Emergent” culture change is becoming a pressing issue at both corporate and national levels. It’s time to start tracking it, so the changes don’t catch you off guard. Continue reading
"Emergent" culture change - or how cultures quietly evolve - is an issue that has received relatively little attention. In part this is because the main bodies of measurements of culture are those of the values of national cultures begun by Hofstede and ...MORE >