Thought-leaders in Social Business gathered at this second of four worldwide events held by the Dachis group to consider and present our collective understanding of what it means to work in the mode of business that embraces networks of people to create business value.
The trouble is that this centres the fan chart on the mode of the distribution (the single likeliest outcome), and not necessarily on the median (the value that divides the outcomes, ranked by size, exactly in two) or the mean (the sum of the outcomes divided by the number of outcomes).
Even Japan's NTT DoCoMo, which is launching its successful i-mode service in Europe this month, gave warning on March 15th that it may have to write down the value of some of its overseas investments.