Jay Edwin Gillette: Innovative Leadership for the Information Renaissance #bcs2015
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Keynote speech given at the BOBCATSSS 2015 conference - http://www.bobcatsss2015.com/. “Information Renaissance” is the concept that we are in a post-industrial age, whose characteristics can be understood to be like the historic transformation of the European Renaissance. The historic renaissance had a decisive impact on human development, through the information catalyst of movable-type publishing. Renaissance ideas spread throughout Europe at first, then globally in the ensuing centuries. My thesis is that we are now in such “renaissance times.”
![“Information Renaissance Leadership:
Challenges for a Knowledge Society
Driven 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]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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Jay Edwin Gillette: Innovative Leadership for the Information Renaissance #bcs2015
- 1. “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 Sciences Center for Information and Communication Sciences Ball State University, USA
- 2. “Information Renaissance Leadership: Challenges for a Knowledge Society Driven 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]
- 3. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 3 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
- 4. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 4 Text in Context: Boats Make the Most Sense when Afloat Context Boat as Mechanism Water as Medium Text
- 5. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 5 Text in Context: Succeed and Prosper Professionally in the Information Renaissance Context Professional Strategies Information Renaissance Text
- 6. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 6 1: The Information Renaissance Context Innovative context of our era: “Welcome to the Information Renaissance” 1. New era—Knowledge Society driven by an Information Economy 1.1 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]
- 7. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 7 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
- 8. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 8 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.
- 9. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 9 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.
- 10. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 10 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
- 11. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 11 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)
- 12. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 12 Example: Michael Gelb’s “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci”
- 13. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 13 Example: Ben Shneiderman’s “Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies”
- 14. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 14 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
- 15. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 15 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
- 16. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 16 4.2.2 Six Kinds of Knowledge • Wisdom • Understanding • Information – “news you use” – “you get the idea” • Data • Facts • Phenomena [start here]
- 17. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 17 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
- 18. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 18 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 confidence 5.1.2 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
- 19. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 19 Thank You—and Discussion Renaissance Spock: Utne Magazine’s most popular cover (January-February 1998 issue)
- 20. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 20 Presentation Acknowledgements Information Networking requires team cooperation: Thank you Masaryk University, Brno, Tampere University, BOBCATSSS 2015
- 21. © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette “Information Renaissance Leadership" 21 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.
- 22. “Information Renaissance Leadership: Challenges for a Knowledge Society Driven by the Information Economy” Contact: Dr. Jay Edwin Gillette Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies University of Oulu, Finland 2014-2015 Center for Information and Communication Sciences Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306 USA jaygillette@bsu.edu © 2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette
Editor's Notes
- JAY EDWIN GILLETTE, Ph.D. Keynote Speaker for INNOVATION We are in exciting, though fraught times, where we finally fulfill our species name, and role, as Homo sapiens, “Humans who know.” Parent Institutions Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at Ball State University’s Center for Information and Communication Sciences (CICS) in Indiana, USA Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies at the University of Oulu, Finland for 2014-2015 BOBCATSSS Contribution INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP FOR THE INFORMATION RENAISSANCE “Information Renaissance” is the concept that we are in a post-industrial age, whose characteristics can be understood to be like the historic transformation of the European Renaissance, (less-poetically called by specialists the period of “early modern Europe”). The historic renaissance had a decisive impact on human development, through the information catalyst of movable-type publishing. Renaissance ideas spread throughout Europe at first, then globally in the ensuing centuries. My thesis is that we are now in such “renaissance times.” I note these are periods of great human advance, yet full of social turmoil from “counter-reformation” currents, like the ocean’s rip-tides of my California upbringing. I characterize our historical context as “a knowledge society driven by an information economy.” Digital information is the catalyst for today’s renaissance, whose impact will spread unevenly yet certainly through the knowledge-value history to come. To succeed in this era, I suggest participatory modes of leadership for individuals as people, by choosing to live as a renaissance man or renaissance woman. The key to prosperity for organizations, whether in business or civic sectors, is to add knowledge-value to everything they touch. My concluding message is that we are in exciting, though fraught times, where we finally fulfill our species name, and role, as Homo sapiens, “Humans who know.”
- Ships are interesting and beautiful in themselves—think of a model on a fireplace mantle. Yet it is water as a medium of transportation that makes the boat make sense. And in the context of sailing on the water, the activity of the boat makes the most sense, and you can understand it best.
- You can see your life as a text. And that which we’re floating on is our context. So you can see your professional and personal strategies, of success and prosperity, personal, material, spiritual, may make more sense if you see where we’re floating, or sailing, if we take a more active view.
- Optimist says “glass is half full” Pessimist says “glass is half empty” Realist says: “There is a glass. It contains liquid. It contains air.”
- Linnaeus “Linny-us” 1758 named this species
- Information in a Scale of Knowledge [Read up from the bottom of the table] Information is a component of knowledge. It occupies a central position in the scale of knowledge from phenomena to wisdom. It is the signifier-signified interface; the gateway of interpretation. Wisdom The ability to discern, to make judgments. Discerning wisdom is based ultimately on difference or differences. Wisdom is the ability to discern difference. Wisdom guides understanding. Understanding informs wisdom. Understanding The ability to recognize, to comprehend, to surround, and to select information on the basis of wisdom. It means to know the implications of information. Understanding tells how to apply information, and what information to look for. Understanding means to know the significance of information signs. Understanding is the basis of research. Information Singular, an idea. A concept formed in the consciousness of the perceiver. Plural, a set of ideas or concepts. Specifically, and in its main function, information is data selected, filtered and used to make a decision or to reinforce the users’ position. Information is applied data. That is, the data are applied for useful purposes to the information user. Information is useful data. Information value is intrinsically relative to the user. Data Organized facts. “Data” in Latin means “the givens.” “Datum” is the singular, “a given.” Data are processed, that is, structured, facts. Data may be facts tested by scientific method, or by experience. Facts Representations of phenomena. A fact represents a phenomenon. Facts are signifiers of phenomena. Facts re-present phenomena. “Fact” is not a synonym for “true.” Phenomena Those which appear to be. Singular, “phenomenon,” that which appears to be. Phenomena appear as knowledge in perception, as they are perceived. Properly, perceptions of phenomena are knowledge. © 1993-2015 by Jay Edwin Gillette. All rights reserved. Formatting by Amy Clevenger
- My concluding message is that we are in exciting, though fraught times, where we finally fulfill our species name, and role, as Homo sapiens, “Humans who know.”