Comments for Frederic Baud

Comment on Would your organization accomodate an outer-space organigram zap? by Frederic Baud

Frederic Baud — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:19:18 +0000

@jawgardner, I don’t dispute the quantity of innovations that organizations produce, but their nature. Organizations are formidable engine to create, refine and enhance more of the same thing. It can sometimes lead its employees to “think out of the box”, but it can not usually implement ideas too alien to its own idiosyncrasy. The market on the contrary has no boxes, the limit is the imagination of people and the ability to catalyse resources and create a new organization - that will of course be subject to the same fate.

Comment on Would your organization accomodate an outer-space organigram zap? by jawgardner

jawgardner — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:07:08 +0000

Your point is a good one: large organisations are definitely less able to disrupt themselves presently than smaller ones. And I agree that the age disparity between a startup and an entrenched organisation is significant.

But did you know that larger organisations tend to be more innovative than smaller (when you look at a basket of innovations over time)? Innovation scholars aren’t sure why, but it is certainly backed up by the literature on this topic.

I am hoping that innovation as a discipline is at a tipping point presently.

But I love your thought experiment here. It is very revealing, and highlights the difference between what happens in a startup and elsewhere.

THanks for the link back to my post.

Comment on BarCampBank London was great! by Morriss Partee

Morriss Partee — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:39:40 +0000

Glad that it was a great event! I hope to make it to a future BCBL!

Comment on Join us for BarCampBankLondon on July 5th by BarCampBank London was great! « Frederic Baud

BarCampBank London was great! « Frederic Baud — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:29:32 +0000

[...] , banking , fundcamp , funding Last Saturday happened the first BarCampBank London. I shared earlier my excitement of participating to this first English BarCampBank and I must say that I’ve not [...]

Comment on How to organize a BarCampBank? by jeanchristophecapelli

jeanchristophecapelli — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:57:44 +0000

Great post, Frederic. Nicely summarized

Comment on Join us for BarCampBankLondon on July 5th by jeanchristophecapelli

jeanchristophecapelli — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:30:37 +0000

Hi Frederic ! I’ll be there with a bunch of passionate French BarCampBankers. Count us in

Comment on My bank money is too sticky! by Morriss Partee

Morriss Partee — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:30:16 +0000

I was delighted to recently discover that all taxis in NYC now accept plastic, right in the back seat. One less spot where cash is needed.

Comment on Join us for BarCampBankLondon on July 5th by Morriss Partee

Morriss Partee — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:56:52 +0000

Hi Frederic! It was wonderful meeting you at BarCampBankSF in March! I think I’m going to calm down and not try to attend all BarCampBanks in North America. I’ve got to pace myself to avoid BarCamp burnout. I do plan to attend BarCampBank Dallas and BarCampBank BC. But I won’t be able to make London or Charleston. I would enjoy attending a future BarCampBank London though, and I look forward to finding out about dates for BarCampBank Madison.

Thanks for the shout out, and if any of your readers are credit union professionals (no matter where in the world they may be), I’d encourage them to check out the community and discussion at EverythingCU.com. We have just a handful of members from the U.K. and Europe, and we’d love to have more join us!

Comment on P2P Money: would you also need a pooled payment system? by My bank money is too sticky! « Frederic Baud

My bank money is too sticky! « Frederic Baud — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:47:06 +0000

[...] of non-existant flows, or at least not existing yet. And here, I’ll turn again to my P2PMoney pet project. Leaving in a global world, with many interactions with a growing community of contacts, I think we [...]

Comment on We launched FundCamp by Frederic Baud

Frederic Baud — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:32:29 +0000

I’ll be talking FundCamp and P2PVenture extensively at BarCampBankSF (http://barcamp.org/BarCampBankSF). I’ll be happy to meet your there.