this blog will concentrate on communication for a couple of days, #mtw3 from Wed

The scope of #mtw3 is getting back towards learn9, combining learning and ISO 9000 though it could be learning from any quality system. It may be that forms of communication are possible anyway, more will come out at Cross Media Live. But the form of #mtw3 this week is intended as a preparation for this. So today and tomorrow I will have another look at the issues around communication as such in previous posts.

I will come back to this again anyway for the London College of Communications conference on Futures. Just at the level of words, why do they use Design and Media to describe the departments? I still can't work out what has happened to print and publishing or whatever they relate to now.

I am thinking back to OhmyNews stories for IPEX a couple of years ago. The topics seem to stay the same but the events change over time. Adobe seems more interested in Cross Media Live than a general print event. How much will they explain? I still don't know anything about a new Acrobat. What is special about Adobe analytics? At IPEX it seemed to me that digital had established parity with litho. At Cross Media there is not much sign of litho so there could be a discussion with marketing that included variable data. I realise this has been possible for a while but not much happening on any scale. I think the journalism around print is moving online and the companies exhibiting at shows are using video to communicate directly. Not sure how Printweek and the Guardian for example are reporting this. But Cross Media is an occasion to check out actual behaviour. 

#mtw3 post in context, back to Sidmouth

Trying out the idea that this blog is coherent, I may try to carry on with Spin 2 and soul music as part of the #mtw3 discussion. I hope to find time on Thursday to discuss design science and the DJ during the Wild Show on Phonic FM. We play some folk and some soul and sometimes talk about how Exeter live music is represented in the Sidmouth folk week.

The #mtw3 Facebook group includes Captain Gallows from the Pyrates so he may have a theory about organisation. Booking policy at the Anchor may be influenced by various factors. Can the plans for Sidmouth Folk Week be seen as design? More later.

 

John Burgoyne comment has too much agenda for #mtw3 except online

John Burgoyne added this comment below to my post about Spin 2 and soul music in Sidmouth. I am going to move it to other places, such as LinkedIn and Facebook. I will also put more in the next post about how this blog relates to #mtw3. To repeat previous posts, Management Theory at Work has included two face2face events so far. There may be a third at the Work Foundation. This week there will be more online, especially  Wed / Thur / Fri.

Eventually we will need to limit the scope to fit into a day, but online txt can  expand in various ways on various timescales.

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Comment from John

re all the above, I have been doing more work with colleagues on where leaderhsip is going. see notes below. the numbered points may not make much sense to you on their own, so if you are curious ask me here or email me on j.burgoyne@lancaster.ac.uk .

I also have a 'dropbox' file on this stuff, send me your email to my email as above if you want me to join you to this.

here is my current thinking:

Where is it and where should it be going?
Three main inter-related strands:
1.) More scientific leadership (as well as human relations)
2.) More ethical etc. leadership as above
3.) Virtual leadership, ditto
Mapped into these themes:
1.) Castels – history of the internet
2.) Zuboff – automate to informate, new form of virtual leadership still to come?
3.) Generation Y etc.
4.) Changing nature of followers
5.) Greening etc.
6.) Weakening of the professions?
7.) Adaptive innovation
8.) Outsourcing
9.) Learning organisation / dynamic capability
10.) Student (?) theory
11.) Structure and culture
12.) Adult education?
13.) Miniaturisation / lean
14.) Intellectual property and the knowledge economy
15.) Meaningfullness
16.) Changing sources of power for leadership
17.) Correspondence theory
18.) Leading a purposeful workforce
19.) Leadership of social movement
20.) Requisite variety
21.) Elephants and fleas
22.) ARM (what is this?)
23.) Critical realism in general
24.) Darwin, Maturana and Valera and Bateson. Evolution, autopoesis and larger units of survival
25.) Evolutionary psychology? (ref. Nicholson)
26.) Asda example (what was this about?)
27.) Individual, team, task and technology
28.) Actor – network theory?
29.) More on Dewey?
30.) Informated economy
31.) Franchising
32.) Making and trading (don’t forget the latter)
33.) Political and economic history (one for David!)
34.) History of war?
35.) Pre-human, hunter-gathering, agriculture, manufacture, mento-facture (knowledge economy and work), spiroculture / identity culture (meaningfulness)
36.) Global / cross cultural issues. Developed, de-developing, developing economies. Following same route and jumping over stages? Global managerial/leadership culture.
37.) Social and human capital
38.) Leadership as the origin, the primary source or the final cause (too theoretical/philosophical. Grint on the bow-wave pulling the ship along and the ship shaping how the captain steers it (never got this, may not have got it right).

Implications for Leadership Development
Cover content and process as above.
More when we are clearer about implications of what
Quote paper ‘how can you develop leadership if you don’t know what it is?’. The implication of the paper is that you can’t, but one argument (with which I agree) is that you can through action learning (and coaching and mentoring, the ‘context sensitive methods’- have ref.). The argument is that these methods get round the problem by saying that ‘leadership is what leaders do, individually and collectively, but who do you count as a ‘leader’ in the first place, the problem does not go away!).
Virtual development processes needs to be discussed.
Does the leadership pipeline assume a declining form or organisation (or not)?
Why are the new organisations, google, eBay, facebook etc. largely or entirely absent from Business School client lists (need to check if this is true, think it is).

publishing, loops to #mtw3 Work Foundation

There was a blog post at the Work Foundation but I cant find it so have found what I think is similar
 
 
Lucy Montgomery is Director of Research for Knowledge Unlatched, based at the Work Foundation as art of their Big Innovaton Centre.
 
I am listening to the Wild Show at the moment and also catchin up on blogs and links. Radio as been allowed to use recorded music as a way to promote it. This has been so for a while now. Gradually this is spreading online. Book publishing is moving in a similar direction but more slowly. Part of #mtw3 could be to consider universities, libraries etc as organisations adapting to this. A few incidents so far, the Grove Journal was loaded to Scribd with an article by John Burgoyne. The Networked Learning conference papers 2012 are published by Lancaster University online as PDF, previously I think by Springer. More checks next week.

Checkland on YouTube, more for the Design Science DJ #mtw3

I am still reminded of topics that should be included in #mtw3. It is an advantage online that there is unlimited space, it is up to the audience to do the editing.
 
So far in the various versions of his talk John Burgoyne has described the coming end of leadership as a theme but also pointed to a future for scientific leadership, without so far going into much detail. I think there should be space for systems, especially soft systems thinking. I have covered this in previous posts but it is worth raising again as the Lancaster TV resource has produced some excellent video from recent events and it is available on YouTube.
 
 
I don't think systems is often described as design but there are similar ways of working. I think a radio how such as the Wild Show could look at this using different words, could be next week.
 
Design can cover many points of view as uggested by the 3D diagram from Gibson Burrell. I remember a previus two dimensional diagram created with Gareth Morgan. Checkland described soft systems as a sort of journey around the diagram. I will have to study more to work out how this happens in 3D.   

"spiroculture" , crucible, another topic for #mtw3

I am in Lancaster and went to the campus this morning. Several photos but will wait till next week when I am back phot  to desktop and  Cross Mediaphotoediting as I am used to.
 
Meanwhile I am checking out some links on #mtw3 ahead of next week and the refresh ahead of of Cross Media.
 
I have watched again the Youtube clip of John  Burgoyne on " an optimistic view of the future" and also found the slides from Scribd. Some extracts-
 
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From the knowledge economy to spiro-culture, identity culture, meaningfulness

My argument is a largely optimistic one.

It is that, although the knowledge economy is barely getting under way, to varying degrees in varying contexts, we are already moving on to another condition, or ‘state’ that I will varyingly call ‘identity culture’ or ‘spiro-culture’, depending on how brave I am feeling about mentioning spirituality, to which the latter refers.

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The optimistic part is that with a spiroculture lifestyle we can ‘walk lightly on the earth’, as the poor are said to do, in ecological terms. We can be spiritually rich but materially modest in our consumption. (reference here to Charles Carter, founding Vice-Chancellor, Quaker economist and his book ‘Wealth’ which attempts to reclaim the term for wellbeing, its original meaning).

Let’s be brave in this context.

Spiro-culture is about the search for meaningfulness in life. As customers this is increasingly the value which we are paying for.

The Nike T shirt that costs £50 may have cost 50p to make in China, £2 to ship and sell to us. The rest is for the brand. It is said that shopping malls are the cathedrals of the 21st century. 

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We are not there to bet the basics of food or clothing, but to find an identity we like – back to the Nike T shirt.

Maslow forgiven and developed

In the East in contrast, Zen Buddhists, for example, can self-actualise on an insecure handful of rice a day, though they may command some respect in some quarters.

Developing countries and spiritual roots

While the East, and its growing economies, are Westernising at some speed, they are probably still closer to their spiritual roots than the West, and the West, particularly America, has its spiritual, or rather religious (explain distinction?) commitments, particularly muscular Christianity, which has its good and bad points, in my view at least.

Developing countries and spiritual roots

Perhaps the West has much to learn from, as well as teach to, the East, and this could be a fertile ground for collaboration?

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I was reminded of the second Management Theory at Work conference when John Wilson and Bronwen Rees spoke on "Towards an Understanding of Organisational Transformation through Ethical enquiry." Some searching has found a PDf with an update on Crucible Research, the project they were working on at the time.

 

http://www.bronwenrees.co.uk/articles

 

I will have a look and hope to have taken it in by next week. 

 

Design for the Design Science DJ

This may make more sense in a couple of weeks time. Thursday week, 10 to 10.30 on Phonic FM there will be some music but I hope also to continue conversation with JD about Design, Science, and how to DJ. He has been studying a link I sent to a blog about the Science DJ.

The source clips are a short intro and then a 20 minute edit on YouTube

So we need to work out how far we agree with the claims on what a DJ is doing and then I would like to look at Design Science. The #mtw3 conference may be able to link leadership and teaching by considering both as examples of design science. But "design" is understood in various ways. Through Critical Management I have found a recent talk by Gibson Burrell

There is also a page on research methods at Sheffield with an earlier version of this talk.

(By the way, why not edit in the graphics to break up the talk and make it easier to follow? One fixed camera at a distance from the screen is not the only option)

So in theory even within 30 minutes we could either rephrase or find sound examples to start on Design Science ( not knowing much or anything at all is an established mode for radio presentation)

Tel studio: 01392 434577 
Email Studio: studio@phonic.fm

So please get in touch during the show. An mp3 in advance would be best, or txt on Facebook. Search on "Wild Show" 

This week we made a start. We may get some more time during the next hour and a half, it depends how many gaps Chris needs to sort out the music. I like the idea of the studio as a 3 dimensional box diagram but this may take several shows to develop.

#mtw3 blog confirms date August 22nd to 24th for online concentration

Linda Shelton has updated the #mtw3 blog confirming the dates Aug 22 to 24 for a revised look at the material for #mtw3.

Also she has checked the links and found that there is a YouTube video of the keynote for Design!? by Gibson Burrell.

See my earlier post

I think this new material on design will help conversation on what is meant by design. Diana Laurillard has a recent book about Design Science and Teaching. This has reminded us of Design Science and leadership in previous writing by John Burgoyne. But what is generally understood about design science is far from clear.

I will also try to find some references in quality discussions. There are connections with design but again, not that clear.

Clues about Adobe from India #CrossMedia12

Found this through Digital Dialogue Asia Pacific group on LinkedIn

Interview with Aseem Chandra, Vice President, Product Marketing, Omniture Business Unit, Adobe Systems

Previously I have just found video of stage presentations so have not really got a grip on what Adobe is doing. Text is often easier to follow.

Adobe is a different business today than it was three years ago in the digital marketing space. The change happened for the better post Adobe's acquisition of Omniture in 2009. Adobe has over the last three years focused on developing digital technology for helping digital marketers value add products of measurability. With digital communications getting driven by social, marketers are now looking at understanding how best the medium can be used.
Adobe developed Adobe Social with the focus to simplify social marketing within a common platform and workflow, unifying engagement with listening and industry-leading business analytics. Adobe Social Analytics that is the part the Adobe digital suite is one the first social media analytics solution that is developed to measure the impact of social media on business. 

So this seems to be the main focus. The Postscript and PDF products were a base to buy Macromedia and now Flash may be reaching a stage to be modified for HTML. So Omniture defines the technology, this is just a guess. 

However, the intro to the interview has a general statement and a question-
With the immense growth of social media, companies are trying to make sense of their social presence. Can leveraging free analytics help brands in manoeuvring the social labyrinth?

The issue of "free analytics" is not really explored. With Postscript and PDF there are now open ISO standards and it has always been possible to develop alternative software. Clearly there are choices around analytics but not enough clear explanation of what Adobe offers to work out the value of their services.

If Acrobat is part of the leading edge products before last then it must be time for a price drop. Still no official info on an Acrobat release date.

Phone calls to video, Wild Show walk to the #CozmicMeadow

Last week on the Wild Show Chris and I walked from the Exeter High Street to the Quay and then the Flood Prevention area which we described as part of the Cozmic Meadow. I took some video as we went and have learnt a bit about lip sync so the sound from the radio can be edited in. The third one has gone a bit strange. I think the solid background of grass has prompted some mixing options that then went in some other direction. 

Anyway

This is roughly where the Morning scene is located for Any High Street. More on this when it arrives at RAMM.

Chris mentions the cobbles on Exeter Quay. Not ideal for a wheelchair suspension. He may mention this again.

The start of the Cozmic Meadow.

I mention the possibility of a Superheavy concert with Raphael Saadiq also booked in case Mick needs a rest.

Now I know a bit more about how to edit I could just mix bits of the Superheavy members in other locations. Or link to local Exeter singers with related styles. A combination of reggae, singer songwriting, soforth. Send the mp3s to India for something extra and a mix.

Meanwhile the blow-up Stonehenge is expected to arrive soon at the Lee Valley Park. On the 8th it will be in Victoria Park

Thing is, how will it travel from Victoria Park to the Lee Valley Park? It could be by canal or by bike alongside the canal but rumour is that the pathway is closed. No clear info about the canal. Hackney Wick station is only open enough to go west. But after the Olympics this route should be possible again.

Photos and video welcome of Stonehenge in this sort of location. It could all be done in Photoshop later but let us hang on also to reality.

Guardian on UK University funding, nothing about e-learning #crossmedia12

This is a bit off-topic for Cross Media Live but not by much. Print culture has a lot more influence than many people realise. The idea of a university in a specific location has a lot to do with print equipment. And law of course. It was once illegal to print anything in the UK except in London, Oxford or Cambridge.

Today the Guardian in print (Education towards the back) has a couple of stories about funding

I think there is a bit of a slant from the way the Ikea photo is presented. Presumably the editor believes that most readers prefer the existing architecture on UK sites. Somehow a campus set up somewhere else is not as solid. There could have been a photo of a pop-up yurt as shown at Olympia during Learning Without Frontiers

But there is nothing about the web at all. Maybe this is just the view of Guardian print journalists. Or maybe it reflects the views of the UK academics quoted in the text. In another article Peter Scott writes about neoliberal triumph and market forces. This is the context often presented for the online offers available from other sources. A recent Guardian story questioned the role of Pearson. But it seems to me that commercial solutions for e-learning are gaining attention in the absence of much else from the existing UK universities.

I expect the next sensible Guardian journalism about the web and universities to be in a special pull-out section sponsored by Stanford and MIT. 

Meanwhile in Exeter the Central Library will be closed for a year or so while the building is improved and we get another cafe in the city centre. Architecture continues as a central feature for most sites. The university forum still has no bookshop but the students seem unconcerned. This may be because they are away. Will the student union newspaper report any new campaigns when the term begins?

#mtw3 / #mosocoop online ahead of #crossmedia12 22-24 Aug dupe

(this seems to have got lost in the Posterous system, so reposted)

Summer drift is fine as the Sidmouth folk week is starting up.

But I would like to get more into theory towards the end of August ahead of Cross Media Live on 3rd and 4th September. The topics are not new but they are associated with print culture so could be quite disruptive. UK universities are still based on print to a large extent so there is a loop back to how a conference is organised.

I am thinking about the three days 22 -24 th Aug to look again at the #mtw3 material and maybe link in the #mosocoop ideas. (#mosocoop is intended as a more open version of #cqimoso, linked to the CQI ) . The opening talk by John Burgoyne might be followed by "scientific leadership" and how to avoid traffic jams in China. Cloudworks has an #mtw3 cloud and could also be seen as an example of design science, as described by Diana Laurillard in a recent book.

Deming secrets include the aspect that quality theory is not just prescriptive. The "new economics" can explain why companies cease trading. Also worth exploring is what Deming learnt in Japan.

Suggestions welcome on links and topics. A later face to face event will have to be edited down to fit a day. But online could go in various directions. It is already clear that LinkedIn and Facebook relate to other groups.

Video on Cross Media Live from drupa, shows the print conenction.

Lords on UK Broadband, confusion? think about online television #EX1to4

I still can't find much response to the Lords report on UK broadband that considers television.

One report suggests the industry is "confused"

On the main "pipe dream" - switching telly online - there is a lot to consider. The nature of the content would change quite a lot.

Surely our UK media have something to report?

Radio and DJ for Design Science

Yesterday the Wild Show was ok on Phonic FM and I now have sound clips of the phone in. It was sort of designed. There was a plan. Archive from the Summer Games, the Winter Games and also Chris on Tramper wheelchair doing most of the same route through Exeter High Street towards the flood relief area, now known as the Cozmic Meadow.

We did not need the archive as the phone worked out ok. So we can now do another design or rough knowing there is a backup of content.

Meanwhile I am working through the video on a DJ of science.

I think there could be a DJ of design science. My friend JD tells me that a radio presenter should not assume too much knowledge. This is just as well. we could just claim to know enough about design science to invite some guests or phone calls or borrow sound from somewhere else. I'm not sure how much actual air time I could take up. Usually I get 30 minutes but most of this should be music. But we can link to more or less anything through the Facebook group. Search on Wild Show, phonic FM.

soundtrack for the Cozmic Meadow

Also I have suggested a concert with Superheavy and Raphael Saadiq in the area of flood prevention that is probably not needed during August. Not sure when this will happen but design continues.

#mtw3 / #mosocoop online ahead of #crossmedia12 22-24 Aug

Summer drift is fine as the Sidmouth folk week is starting up.

But I would like to get more into theory towards the end of August ahead of Cross Media Live on 3rd and 4th September. The topics are not new but they are associated with print culture so could be quite disruptive. UK universities are still based on print to a large extent so there is a loop back to how a conference is organised.

I am thinking about the three days 22 -24 th Aug to look again at the #mtw3 material and maybe link in the #mosocoop ideas. (#mosocoop is intended as a more open version of #cqimoso, linked to the CQI ) . The opening talk by John Burgoyne might be followed by "scientific leadership" and how to avoid traffic jams in China. Cloudworks has an #mtw3 cloud and could also be seen as an example of design science, as described by Diana Laurillard in a recent book.

Deming secrets include the aspect that quality theory is not just prescriptive. The "new economics" can explain why companies cease trading. Also worth exploring is what Deming learnt in Japan.

Suggestions welcome on links and topics. A later face to face event will have to be edited down to fit a day. But online could go in various directions. It is already clear that LinkedIn and Facebook relate to other groups.

Video on Cross Media Live from drupa, shows the print conenction.

Daily Mail, how to compare with the BBC? UK media and print culture

Apparently there is now dispute about whether the Daily Mail is now the top website representing the UK for a global audience.

This may be connected with the enthusiasm for the House of Lords vision to do away with broadcast telly as we know it. ( see previous post )

A free for all over the web, a mix of video and whatever.

The Guardian was opposed to BBC plans for local video but then they gave up on their own ideas. Expect much more of this sort of mixture from the former print newspapers. The BBC is doing too much / too little to promote the UK. Here is a photo of a BBC star with added value from opinion. soforth.

Whatever happened to the Daily Mirror? Was there ever a plan?

Thinking about previous story about Guardian story on FT I realise there is something different. The FT could continue print publication during the week as a promotion for the website. The losses could be contained. But for the Guardian it might be more difficult. On the LinkedIn Cross Media Live group it has been pointed out that publishing just at the weekend might not be viable as the presses would be doing nothing most of the week. What happens with the FT colour magazine at the moment? Is it just out of date by a week? Seems ok for what it is.
 

Diagram again Facebook group virtual worlds, link ISO management standards #twinity #mtw3 #mosocoop

I am going to concentrate on this for a bit. The diagram comes via Facebook groups about virtual worlds. there are several and I am not sure how they link. Maybe start here-

or search Facebook on  "immersive, world, quality"

Background, #mtw3 has an interest in "scientific leadership" and the Work Foundation is working on academic publishing as an example of innovation. The CQI Deming SIG also has an interest in publishing and a system model related to the one shown in the diagram.

So I'm interested in where the detail of the diagram comes from. From James OReilly on Facebook I discover the relevant standards

ISO 19796    elearning

ISO 29990 informal training

ISO_29110  small units software development

This model in the diagram is about crowd funding but could relate to other situations.

My own top problem is with the supplier list for virtual worlds. I still don't understand when Twinity will restore the streets. Do they have funding for map data? Very hard to make a case for a virtual Work Foundation given the current uncertainty.

Worrying really, I am turning to the Daily Mail, Guardian lost on education

Since I stopped buying the Guardian in print every day I find all kinds of stuff online, some of it surprising.

The House of Lords suggesting tv moves online is a bit of news but not widely reported. 

Michael Hanlon in the Daily Mail blog has a refreshing perspective, looking back before colour tv and seeing the Lords proposals as fairly obvious in the long term. This is the sort of big science approach. The tech will work out. But the details over the next year or so could be more complicated.

I find the Guardian less sweeping and there is nothing about tv.

More worrying is the takes on the web in education, or rather the lack of it. Yesterday there was an article about the lack of contact hours in university degree courses. Consider this para-

Warwick University is determined to keep seminars small. But Prof Ann Caesar, pro vice-chancellor for education and student experience at the university, stresses that there is a "serious cost" to this. "There is a hidden cost with dissertation and project supervision work," she says. "You read drafts and comment on them – often over email, so it won't be counted as extra contact hours. It is labour intensive, but absolutely vital so students don't feel they are on their own."

So email is not considered as contact? Where is this coming from? Is it just Warwick? Makes no sense at all. Is it just a Guardian thing? 

A while ago there was a special page on skills sponsored by BAE Systems

This kind of thing is unlikely to turn up in Education Guardian as normal.

Then there was the article with a critique of Pearson

What to think? My guess is that the Guardian probably reflects quite a lot of views in UK education. That learning can be on offer online with conversation through email etc. may come as a surprise.