jay edwin gillette: innovative leadership for the information renaissance #bcs2015

“Innovative Leadership for the Information Renaissance: A Knowledge Society

Driven by the Information Economy”

Jay Edwin Gillette

Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies

University of Oulu, Finland 2014-2015

Professor of Information and Communication SciencesCenter for Information and Communication Sciences

Ball State University, USA

“Information Renaissance Leadership: Challenges for a Knowledge SocietyDriven by the Information Economy”

The educator’s job is to turn experience into knowledge.

Professor Richard Hutson [1]

The Renaissance was a time of joy and terror, elation and anxiety, and in our own time where anxiety has thrown joy into its millennial shadow, reacquainting ourselves with our rebirth may renew our joie de vivre.

Kenneth Atchity [2]

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Presentation Contents in Five Topics

Topic 1: Context of our era--Welcome to the Information Renaissance

• A knowledge society driven by an information economy• Challenging innovation, yet not unprecedented in human history

Topic 2: Characteristics of the Information Renaissance

• Positives: rapid, extensive, historic human progress• Negatives: clash of paradigms generates major social conflict• European renaissance and Information renaissance characteristics

Topic 3: Succeed and Prosper in the Information Renaissance

• Succeed as a Person—Become a Renaissance Man or Renaissance Woman• Succeed as an Organization—Add knowledge value to everything you touch

Topic 4: In a Scale of Knowledge, Information is the key component

Topic 5: Conclusions and Recommendations

• Have confidence; lead with confidence; succeed and prosper


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1: The Information Renaissance Context

Innovative context of our era: “Welcome to the Information Renaissance”

1. New era—Knowledge Society driven by an Information Economy1.1 Challenging innovation, yet not unprecedented in human history

1.2 Like European renaissance (e.g.: Italy c. 1500; Britain c. 1600; unfolding and following regionally and worldwide, still today)

1. “Is this the Information Revolution?” 2.1 No—a post-revolutionary era. In American context, not 1776.

2.2 In the American context it’s 1803; Thomas Jefferson and the revolutionaries are in the White House—getting ready to send out Lewis and Clark to explore the territory we’ve already bought but haven’t explored.

What we call the Information Revolution is actually a Knowledge Revolution. . . . The key is not electronics; it is cognitive science. Peter Drucker [3]


2: Characteristics of the Information Renaissance

2.1 Overarching Characteristics of Renaissance Times

2.1.1 Positives: rapid, great human progress

2.1.2 Negatives: clash of paradigms generates major social conflict

2.2 Irresistible Force (new paradigm) Meets Immovable Object (old paradigm)

2.2.1 At the end of the story, the Irresistible Force always wins, yet the Immovable Object alters its vectors (river of Grand Canyon)

2.2.2 Renaissance & reformation (progress paradigm) generates counter-reformation, which uses the techniques of progress to counter the new paradigm;

2.2.3. Results in upheaval & change: top to bottom, bottom to top


2.3: Distinguishing Characteristics of the European Renaissance

• Book Publishing Technology

• Idealism• Scientific Method

• Naturalism and Secularism

• Fragmentation and Nationalism

• Exploration and Discovery

• Humanism• Individualism• Homo faber

(“Man the maker”)

Kenneth J. Atchity. ed. (1996.) The Renaissance Reader. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, with changes.


2.4: Distinguishing Characteristics of the Information Renaissance

• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

• Knowledge Society• Information Economy• Globalism

• Universal vs. Tribal

• Exploration, Discovery and Travel

• Search for Synthesis• Collaboration

• Community• Homo sapiens [Linnaeus 1758]

(“Human the knower”)

Jay Edwin Gillette, Chin-gi Hong and others (discourses at Ball State University); Jay Edwin Gillette (2007.) “Leadership for the Information Renaissance” [4]; John Naisbitt. (1994.) Global Paradox. New York: Avon.


3: Succeed and Prosper in the Information Renaissance

Succeed and Prosper in the Information Renaissance,

as Person, as an Organization

3.1 Succeed as a Person—Become a Renaissance Man or Woman

3.2 Succeed as an Organization—Add knowledge value to everything you touch


3.1 Succeed as a Person

3.1 Succeed as a Person — Become a Renaissance Man or Woman

3.1.1 Exemplars = Leonardo da Vinci, Vittoria Colonna

3.1.2 Be a “T-person” – both broadly comprehensive (T-crossbar), deeply competent (T-base) , as one complete person-- Breadth of comprehension (goal of liberal arts education)-- Depth of competence (goal of professional education)

3.1.3 Breadth informs adaptability; Depth informs utility -- Adaptability to succeed in rapid change (adapt to environment)-- Utility to prosper by adding value (find a need and fill it)


Example: Michael Gelb’s “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci”


Example: Ben Shneiderman’s “Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New

Computing Technologies”


3.2 Succeed as an Organization

3.2 Succeed as an Organization — Add knowledge value to everything you touch

3.2.1 Concept from Japanese theorist Taichi Sakaiya The Knowledge-value Revolution, or, A History of the Future

3.2.2 Incorporate knowledge-value in all products/activities (in whatever it is you do)

3.2.3 Knowledge premium in 3-Ds (design, development, deployment)-- Sakaiya’s example = Hermès tie [or scarf]-- Gillette example = Mercedes-Benz vehicles


4.1 Many kinds of knowledge

4.1.1 An entire field: epistemology—how we know what we know

4.1.2 Examples—rational, psychological, spiritual, emotional, intuitive, instinctive

4.2 My taxonomy analyzes six kinds of knowledge in a scale, all ways of knowing

4.2.1 Information is the key component, “the door that swings both ways”

4.2.2 Six Kinds of Knowledge (see next slide)

4: In a Scale of Knowledge, Information is the Key Component


4.2.2 Six Kinds of Knowledge

• Wisdom

• Understanding

• Information – “news you use”– “you get the idea”

• Data

• Facts

• Phenomena [start here]


4.3 Practice of Information Networking:How we Move and Use Information[5]

Main Category of Information Networking

Second Level Analysis in Information Networking

Access Input Processing Movement Output

Filtering Display Selection Classification Prioritization

Storage Organization Placement Securing Indexing

Retrieval Searching Finding Bringing Forth Queuing

Using Applying Deploying Distributing Presenting


5: Conclusions and Recommendations

5.1 Our species comes into its own: Homo sapiens, “Humans who know”--Have confidence in the future; lead innovatively

5.1.1 Humans have seen and done this before; have confidence5.1.2 lead innovatively with confidence, from clarity of context

-- (“Morale is itself a strategic advantage”)

5.2 Succeed: renaissance times call for renaissance men and renaissance women—a challenge we can meet

5.3 Prosper: build organizations that add knowledge value to everything they touch—we’re on the way

5.4 Homo sapiens--Use information networking to leverage knowledge that we have and can discover


Thank You—and Discussion

Renaissance Spock: Utne Magazine’s most popular cover (January-February 1998 issue)


Presentation Acknowledgements

Information Networking requires team cooperation:

Thank you

Masaryk University, Brno, Tampere University, BOBCATSSS 2015


References and Bibliography [1] Jay Edwin Gillette paraphrase of Richard Hutson. (c. 1982.) Personal Communication. University of

California, Berkeley.[2] Kenneth J. Atchity. ed. (1996.) The Renaissance Reader. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, p.

xxiv.[3] Peter F. Drucker. (1999.) “Beyond the Information Revolution.” The Atlantic Monthly (October

1999), p. 57.[4] Jay Edwin Gillette (2007.) “Leadership for the Information Renaissance: Clarity, Challenges,

Opportunity.” Annual Review of Communications. Vol. 60. Chicago: International Engineering Consortium. 2007. Download at https://ballstate.academia.edu/JayGillette

[5] Jay Edwin Gillette (2001.) “A Practical Framework for Understanding Knowledge Management.” Chapter 1 in Knowledge Management Strategies and Technologies, edited by Richard F. Bellaver and John M. Lusa. Boston and London: Artech House.

Best books on information economy or information renaissance approach:

• Taichi Sakaiya, The Knowledge-value Revolution, or, A History of the Future. (1991.) New York and Tokyo: Kodansha International.

• Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian. Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy. (1998.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

• Michael Gelb. (2000.) How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day. New York: Dell Publishing.

• Debora L. Spar. (2001.) Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet. New York: Harcourt Inc.

• Ben Shneiderman. (2002.) Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press.

https://ballstate.academia.edu/JayGillette

“Information Renaissance Leadership: Challenges for a Knowledge SocietyDriven by the Information Economy”

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Dr. Jay Edwin GilletteFulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair

in Information and Communications Technologies University of Oulu, Finland 2014-2015

Center for Information and Communication SciencesBall State University, Muncie, IN 47306 USA

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© 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette

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