Jon Husband
Jon Husband carries out research into business strategy, organizational structures, management and work design in the interconnected Knowledge Age. He studied the sociology of organizations and social psychology in university, and after several years in banking moved into consulting with the Hay Group in Canada, with an initial focus on job analysis, competency analysis, performance management and compensation strategy and practices. As a Senior Principal in Hay’s London, UK office he worked on HR strategy, organizational effectiveness, organizational change and leadership development issues with key multinational clients. He left the Hay Group in 1994 to focus on stakeholder-driven strategic planning and organizational development, mainly involving large-scale bottom-up high involvement methods. Over the past decade he has concentrated on the growing impacts of IT and now the Web on the design and dynamics of knowledge work. He coined the term “wirearchy” in 1999, and has been speaking about the impact of the Web on work, business models and the way(s) we live and work since then. He has also co-founded a leading Web 2.0 software company, and delivers workshops about wirearchy and its impacts for clients such as Athabasca University’s Executive MBA program, and the Banff Centre’s Leading Innovation program. Jon just finished writing a book about the impact of Web 2.0 on knowledge management, published by the ARK Group (UK), writes several blogs about social media and Web 2.0, and is an active speaker in Canada and internationally about the Web’s growing impact on enterprises.
Recent Posts
- - Top Dogs Say Social Networks Have a Bite !
- - Looking to the Past for Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Principles
- - On the Emergence of New Forms of Organizational Structure and Governance
- - McKinsey – How Web 2.0 Usage Is Changing Over Time
- - Social Computing Adoption … To Pilot or Not To Pilot
Recent Comments
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All Posts
- - Top Dogs Say Social Networks Have a Bite !
- - Looking to the Past for Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Principles
- - On the Emergence of New Forms of Organizational Structure and Governance
- - McKinsey – How Web 2.0 Usage Is Changing Over Time
- - Social Computing Adoption … To Pilot or Not To Pilot
- - Congratulations to FASTForward Colleague Jevon MacDonald
- - Crowdsourcing for Employee, Customer and Stakeholder Engagement
- - “Maybe those who run our organisations will forget their management tools, and constant ‘tinkering’ with the system”
- - Assessing Productivity in a Networked Era – ROII (Return on Investment in Interaction)
- - Twitter – The Infrastructure of Context-Driven Social Search, or Flash in the Pan ?
- - The Return On Investment in Interaction (ROII) – Using Twitter for Purposeful Contextual Social Search in Social Medical Networks
- - blueKiwi 2009 – The Sociology of Productivity is a Core Design Principle
- - Will Enterprise 2.0 Drive Management Innovation ?
- - Enterprise 2.0 – France’s Excellent Chance(s)
- - From Machine To Organism
- - Making Your Knowledge Work PersonAll
- - Stuart Henshall’s Communications-Via-Twitter Breakthrough
- - Useful Differentiation – Enterprise Social Computing vs. Everyday Use of Social Networks
- - Clay Shirky On Leadership and Management in an Interconnected World
- - Listening To and Talking With Your Current and Potential Customers – SNCF
- - A Two-Way Flow
- - John Chambers, CEO of Cisco at MIT on Enterprise 2.0
- - How Much Longer Before It Dawns on “Everybody” ?
- - The New Management – Bringing Democracy and Markets Inside the Organization
- - There’s A Watershed Moment Coming
- - An Early (and Smart) Step Towards “Mainstreaming” Enterpise 2.0
- - Will Tools Like Twitter Change the Ways We Work With Flows of Information and Knowledge ?
- - CNN Using Twitter and Facebook During Prime-Time News
- - New Enterprise Communications Tools ? … Twitter Conjoined With Instant Calling (TM) = Phweet
- - If the US State Department Can Use Wikis and Blogs Effectively, So Can Your Organization ?
- - Your Knowledge of Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Work Design In Action …
- - Enterprise 2.0 … More Hierarchy or Less Hierarchy ?
- - Supernova 2008 – Interview with Umair Haque
- - TownSquare … Social Networking and Social Computing R&D
- - The Challenges of Enterprise Social Computing (aka Enterprise 2.0)
- - McAfee … A Key Organizational Design Point
- - Web 2.0 for Government Knowledge Workers … Smart or Stodgy ?
- - People Using Google Remind Me of the Past … and Help Us Learn
- - It Takes A Long Time For Change To Happen Quickly
- - “Patterns In The Flow” … Pending Interview
- - Retrospective on KM and the Impact of Web 2.0
- - One More Good Reason To Read The FASTForward Blog …
- - Worth Watching
- - For All Those Who Have Said Blogging Was Just A Fad …
- - ThoughtFarmer- a Canadian Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration Platform Start-up
- - Andrew McAfee Must Have Been Quite Persuasive …
- - FASTForward To … Implementation ?
- - Mashups Made By Microsoft … 2.0 Be or Not 2.0 Be ?
- - Sited … CounterIntuitive
- - The Cloud, Microhoo, Yaasoft !, GoogleZon and EPIC 2015
- - Another Sighting … User-Led Innovation: A New Framework For Co-Creating Business and Social Value
- - Decentralized Co-Creation of Value … and Meaning
- - Forrester’s Most Recent Predictions for the Emerging Enterprise 2.0 Market
- - The Coming of the Cloud, Networked Knowledge Work and New Business Logic
- - Digital Natives … Making Enterprise 2.0 and Hamel’s “The Future of Management” (More) Real ?





