If your organisation :-

• embraces change and is acutely aware of inertia barriers
• has primary goals based upon disruption of existing markets and growing ecosystems rather than a focus on profitability and growth into emerging geographical markets
• views commoditisation not as a liability but an opportunity
• operates through small, highly empowered teams building and creating services
• builds and exploits ecosystems by enabling others to build upon its services
• uses data analytics rather than metrics to determine action
• continually challenges and removes processes
• understands evolution and avoids one size fits all mentality
• builds distributed systems designed for failure that use commodity IT where possible
• considers itself to be as, if not more, efficient than Amazon
• games behaviour both internally and externally
• views culture as malleable and focuses on talent density
• views open source as a tactical weapon
• is seen by others to be simultaneously highly innovative, customer focused and efficient despite what Porter said on the subject

... then you're Next generation. If this isn't you, you're not. If you're not, then just hope this war doesn't stretch into your industry or that IT isn't a major barrier to entry into your space or this hypothesis is completely wrong.

Interesting numbers... though not much sign of the death of email everyone used to go on about - worst luck! I guess that 167,999,999 of those 168 million emails are spam :-(

Among the plans the government hopes will advance its strategy are proposals to establish an Open Data Institute to "ensure that Open Data research is transformed into commercial advantage for UK companies, work with academic centres to increase the number of trained personnel with extensive Open Data skills and provide expert advice for government," BIS said.

The government will also force Research Councils to "ensure the researchers they fund" comply with an existing requirement to "deposit published articles or conference proceedings in an open access repository at or around the time of publication". Currently this is "unevenly enforced," BIS said.

The Research Councils have also committed to investing £2m to develop a 'Gateway to Research' by 2013, BIS said.

"In the first instance this will allow ready access to Research Council funded research information and related data but it will be designed so that it can also include research funded by others in due course," the report said. "The Research Councils will work with their partners and users to ensure information is presented in a readily reusable form, using common formats and open standards".

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(Via LikeCool).