Friday Linkage from our BIF Community

Several interesting posts from members of our BIF community I want to share:

BIF Research Advisor Alph Bingham has a meaty entry on R&D Productivity Metrics and Ohm’s Law. Layman that I am, I still managed to follow his substantial argument that most R&D productivity metrics fail because they're just too fuzzy. It's pretty easy to screw up metrics says Alph - but there are also plenty of ways to get them right and his post will definitely get you thinking.

BIF-4 co-host Bill Taylor writes about Roger Bannister's famous and record-breaking four-minute mile with a post called What is Your Company's "Four-Minute Mile"? In it, he wonders why records, once broken, are so easily matched and suggests mindset may be the motivating factor. It's an interesting game-changing philosophy for overcoming challenge.

BIF-4 storyteller and research advisor Clay Shirky shares an edited transcript from his speech at the recent Web 2.0 Conference. Gin, Television, and Social Surplus is worth reading from beginning to end. Although I had an initial problem making the connection between alcohol consumption and the industrial revolution, Clay makes some interesting points about the effect surplus plays in societal change.

And finally, former BIF-3 storyteller Steven Johnson has written a post called The Silent Room Tone which gets into both the problems and opportunities storytellers face on stage at the hands of audience Twitterers. Recent news stories have highlighted the effect twittering can have on storytelling. Like it or not, it's here to stay - but how much of an effect will it have on the art of communication?

Until next week ~ Chris

Posted May 2, 2008 01:04 PM by Chris Flanagan | Permalink