A Chaotic Dance
The web is a chaotic dance of ever developing and evolving tools. I would like to offer my help to your executive management team in tracking and anticipating the trends ahead. Voice recognition, web-enabled mobile phones, high-quality online typography, collaborative workflow systems, interactive multi-user web projects, web radio, web video, database visualization, and many other tools are available. These tools can assist managers to better understand the knowledge which resides in the networks of people that work with them.
This knowledge is useful to the degree that the manager can visualize the relationships between the nodes. The tools also help to communicate the cooperative vision from the center outward, allowing hierarchy to evolve into overlapping fields of influence, rather than autocratic pyramids.
Better tools should lead to better communication and better decisions. Design Management is the process of identifying critical junctures or inflection points — “tipping points” — and through intelligent analysis and strategic planning, creating a fertile culture for new ideas to take root and flourish.
