Latest update: December 30, 1998
WARNING: CIGNAL ideas are radioactive, and may permanently alter your mind, perceptions or cherished beliefs!
Captain Kirk Economy: an economy where value is dictated by voice, and sophisticated information technologies take care of execution and implementation details.
Micro-publishing of expertise: way of publishing everything that you know about your business, industry, or profession. And to get paid for it.
Having the right tool is half the job. Having the right information systems is half the career.
NQM (Neural Quality Management): mapping technique used by straight A students to ensure performance capability at exam time. (Note: performance differs from competence in that there is a time component involved, which puts enormous pressure on the performer to execute tasks or solve problems in a quasi-unconscious, reflexive fashion).
Crash Seminars: 30-minute seminars in which you offer ('unleash' would be a better word) the best of what you know to a live, online global audience.
Programmatic Technologies: mechanisms, automated procedures, modus operandi, process maps, etc. that allow you to design optimal ways of doing certain tasks and, more importantly, to ensure that these tasks are performed in exactly the same sequence every time.
Knowledge is always in its beta version. This means there is always a better way to represent knowledge or know-how.
You need to sleep. Your career doesn't. Thus the need for online agencies that do your networking for you, even as you sleep. These agencies match people according to their profiles (what kind of career allies sought after, stage in career, etc.).
In "Tomorrow Never Dies," James Bond used a touch pad to drive his BMW. Workstations of the very near future will also have similar, highly sensitive interfaces allowing professionals to control work processes with only the tips of their fingers.
Taskido: the technology employed to optimally leverage environmental events and forces to achieve tasks at hand. (Conceptual framework borrowed from aikido).
Idea Sheet Libraries: libraries of the future will be responsive to consumers' time-saving needs by selling only sheets of paper instead of books. Contents will be summarized on a maximum of five sheets of paper, which also contain Internet links and bookmarks for additional information.
Job Interviews of the Future: candidates will be required to write proposals (as companies now do upon receipt of a request for proposals). These proposals will include, among others, details as to how the candidate will add value to the company (his marginal profitability as a worker).
UPCOMING IDEAS:
Continuous-flow education
Education on demand vs education on schedule
Career ecosystem
Cyber-career
Project market
Audio navigation
Listing of intellectual capital as part of the resume
Earnings per minute
Career marketing
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