Quantified self is all about self quantification incorporating technology into data acquisition regarding inputs such as food, states such as mood, and performance such as mental and physical. These often combine wearable sensors, software interfaces and online communities. In a nutshell, it is self knowledge through numbers. Biohacking is to use s…

I will discuss the idea I call Cloud Learning – universal access to learning by all through the fact that our learning environments, learning content, learning services an learning devices are becoming digitally distributed, context aware (as in physical location, physical environment and learners themselves) and will resemble more of a cloud than …

I’ve been working on a new startup, Meetin.gs for 9 months now. Meetin.gs is an internet service that makes it ridiculously easy to organize meetings – it is fast, integrated, and simple to use. Our main customers are busy business people, who do two things for a living: they go to meetings and they send emails. Meetin.gs enables them to organize m…

I have been working extensively with Sami Viitamäki on a new book we are writing: Cloud Company: Redesigning Strategy, Management, and Communications for the Digital Age (working title). We are glad to inform you that a free e-book outlining some of the key concepts regarding our upcoming book is now available for download. Get your free ebook from…

I wrote a new piece about Cloud Company, this time from the service design point of view: Internet dramatically lowers the coordination and transaction costs of cooperative action. As organizations decentralize elements of their infrastructure, service development, customer interaction, management, leadership and work related processes at the same …

How social media and digital working environments are really changing management, collaboration and organizations? This is the question that is most interesting to me and I believe, very transformational in the long-term on how we relate to each other and how things get done. I was happy to work on this question for a Finnish telecom operator, Elis…

The traditional sales funnel worked in a world where we had limited number of channels reaching a wide number of eyeballs. The advent of the internet has brought forward a myriad number of alternative channels. As a result if you ask someone on the street, a random TV advertisement today is remembered by far less number of people than what the same…

5 years ago a small group including me and Teemu Leinonen formed the Finnish Association of Free, Libre and Open Source Software in Education (FLOSSE). Although we did some great things the effort didn’t last because the people involved were not that interested in running a traditional association. As in Robert Putnam’s book Bowling Alone: America’…

Six Thinking Hats is a well known brainstorming method designed by Dr. Edward de Bono. Six Hats aims to help a group to think more effectively. The idea is to use different hats symbolically, in order to take different productive points of view to a conversation such as positive thinking, information & fact driven argumentation and critical judgmen…

I had to skip a flight to Lapland for giving a presentation due to the volcano eruption in Iceland – first force majeure for me. Due to curiosity, I’ve been keeping an eye on the phenomena from the social media point of view. It is obvious that once again social media is playing an important role here for disaster recovery. Especially real-time rep…