Lewis Perelman

• Head of Faculty at Perelman Group

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) annual “Luddite Awards” target organizations or individuals who, in ITIF’s judgment, “did the most to smash the engines of innovation.” Some of the alarums critics raise—such as the supposed hazards of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation, or vaccin...

Ceding control to automata can be risky. Serious problems are likely to arise when automated systems perform important tasks more accurately, more effectively, and more reliably than humans — most of the time. Yet most of the public in most cases is likely to view the benefits that automatons can provide — saving lives, improving health, enhancing...

[Note: This doc is a draft, not final.] Is the MOOCs phenomenon a disruptive innovation or a transient bubble? It may be partly both. Broadcasting lectures and opening up courses via MOOCs by itself poses little change of the academic status quo. But academia is part of a broader academic-bureaucratic complex that provided a core framework for indu...

The pillars of the new economic system are automated intelligence, unlimited bandwidth communication, and biotechnology.

Energy policy is what systems scientists literally call a "mess": a tangle of economic, environmental, social, and technical problems stirred by competing and often conflicting political agendas. Breakthrough Institute founders Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger have promoted the case for a fundamental shift in energy policy strategies—away fro...

Overlaid on economic and cultural interests that traditionally have shaped infrastructure development, the rising demand for sweeping infrastructure renewal—even reinvention—is being driven three competing policy agendas. The "green" agenda identifies itself with "Sustainability." The "blue" aganda is primarily focused on "Security" including "Safe...

Neglect of our nation’s infrastructure is making America ever more vulnerable to man-made and natural disasters warns author Stephen Flynn, senior fellow of the Council on ForeignRelations, in The Edge of Disaster. Meanwhile, a recent United Nations conference in Bali initiated an international effort to impose stringent and costly new measures to...

In regard to efforts on accelerating innovation there should be a greater focus on human-centered innovation, for at least two reasons. First, change and innovation are not desirable ends in themselves; in fact, some innovation is evidently wasteful and even destructive. Second, while further research is needed to determine the detailed nature of t...

The goal of this working paper series is to point out trajectories of the concept of critical infrastructure resilience in theory, policy, and implementation. On the one hand, "resilience" may just be another policy buzzword; but on the other hand, it might indicate a shift in perception and priority of threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences. I...

One of the most discussed aspects of knowledge management is the transfer of " best practices " and other efforts to " benchmark " within and between industries. However, I am convinced that such initiatives are of questionable value and may in fact do more harm than good.

Lewis Perelman, president of Kanbrain Institute, is a rare blend of scholar, visionary, and pragmatist. An outspoken critic of both education and reform, Perelman is convinced that education as we know it is obsolete and irrelevant in today's world and workplace.

Perelman felt that advances in informa- tion technology are not the herald of a transition in higher education, but rather the death knell of the university as we know it.

Just as the slashing of inventories by kanban transformed the making and marketing of goods, the new "kanbtain" systems promise an upheaval in how business is organized and conducted. One result: Corporate classrooms and training departments, as well as campus recruiting, are headed for obsolescence.

The central theme of our age is the accelerating translation of knowledge into digital form. For companies, this makes possible "hyperlearning" -- radically shrinking the loop that connects learning to work in real time.

America's academic bureaucracy is spreading the myth that U.S. schools are financially undernourished. The truth is just the opposite. The "lag" in U.S. education is not in spending but in productivity. Increasing budgets for obsolete schools will waste resources and delay the restructuring.needed to compete in the 21st century economy.

Viewed as an economic sector, education has the worst productivity record of of any major American industry. To remedy this, a far greater investment in research and development is needed, and the market needs to open to entrepreneurship and competition.

Viewed as an economic sector, education has the worst productivity record of any major U.S. industry. Part of the reason is that education invests a hundred to a thousand times less in research and development than other; information-based businesses. To close the gap, U.S. education and training institutions should set aside at least 1 % of their...

First, the relationship between learning, the workforce, and the performance of the national economy is far vaster and more powerful than what is visible in the narrow confines of "further" or "continuing" education and training. Programs and activities explicitly identified as serving purposes noted in the Secretariat's memo--basically, to retrain...

This report for the Western Governors' Association represents an initial and limited effort towards developing a comprehensive picture of the entire "portfolio" of investments in human capital creation made throughout the economy of a single state. As a pilot project, the study that produced this report focused on Colorado. and on the human capital...

An NSBA Technology Leadership Network Special Report from the Institute for Transfer of Technology to Education. CONTENTS: 1. The imperative to transform education. 2. Learning 1998: Two futures. 3. Changing sociotechnical systems. 4. Focus on productivity. 5. A policy agenda. 6. The planning trap. 7. Strategy for strategy.

Today the quality, value, and relevance of most educational services are declining, and the costs of education are rising sharply. In the future, the deficit crisis will curb government subsidies to education. Modern information technology must be used to increase the productivity of learning. (RM)

The recent frenzy over education--that is, children and schools--has obscured an adult learning crisis that will really put this nation's economy at risk between now and the beginning of the next century. The postindustrial economy demands a new kind of learning enterprise, focused on adults rather than children, on learning rather than education,...

Perelman summarizes some the key elements in what he contends is a new strategy revolution emerging among executives who have been revising their approach to management in an effort to make their organizations "be strategic."

Even with farsighted planning, the transition from a nonrenewable to a renewable resource base is likely to be socially and economically disruptive, yet present national energy and materials policies are inadequate to ensure economic survival muck leas a smooth transition. This chapter proposes the creation of a national renewable-resources trust...

THE PROBLEM OF INTERGENERATIONAL DISTRIBUTION IN ENERGY AND RESOURCE POLICY Current energy and resource decisions promise to have a critical impact on the welfare of future human generations. As impact assessments demonstrate the far-reaching and often complex effects of resource exploitation or conservation, justifying the intergenerational equit...

Separate abstracts are prepared for eight papers presented at the 1979 AAAS National Annual Meeting. (MCW)

Report on "Energy in the 1980s," a session at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in January 1980.

The outstanding social characteristics resulting from the transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy are likely to be theocracy and feudalism.

The results of analyses conducted in preparation of an international photovoltaic marketing plan are summarized. Included are compilations of relevant statutes and existing Federal programs; strategies designed to expand the use of photovoltaics abroad; information on the domestic photovoltaic plan and its impact on the proposed international plan;...

System dynamics studies the behavior of systems through time. Yet time itself rarely is discussed in the existing literature of the field. Alternative concepts of time come from New-tonian mechanics and from modern thermodynamics; system dynamics mixes these two con-cepts in a way which may be problematical. Another issue involving time is the sele...

The International Photovoltaics Program Plan is in direct response to the Solar Photovoltaic Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1978 (PL 95-590). As stated in the Act, the primary objective of the plan is to accelerate the widespread use of photovoltaic systems in international markets. Benefits which could result from increased...

The Solar Photovoltaic Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration (RD and D) Act of 1978 calls for the Secretary of the US Department of Energy (DOE) to prepare a plan to demonstrate photovoltaic systems in other nations and to facilitate the widespread use of these systems. The objective of the International Photovoltaic Program Plan, the str...

The implementation of official state solar energy incentives programs was investigated. Questions of incentive design and program effectiveness are addressed in certain portions of the text, but the bulk of the research effort is directed toward examining how laws and legislative mandates have been transformed into rules, regulations, eligibility c...

Recommends a shift in emphasis of higher education from concentration on historical development of a discipline to solution of real world problems, such as global decline of resources. Teaching techniques and teaching emphases are described. (Author/DB)

This is a summary of the final report of the Project to Study the Implications of Growth Policy for Postsecondary Education [1]. The project was conducted from June to December 1974 at the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) under a grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) and was directed by Drs. Perelman and Bergquist...

This document attempts to identify for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund how it may best invest its resources in postsecondary education to facilitate transformation to an equilibrium state. As the work of the project developed, it was found that the issue of "limits to growth and higher education" had two facets: (1) what role can the postsecondary ed...

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1973.

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