October 2005 Archives
Clarke Ching has found a great Theory of Constraints resource. And it has some guidance on The Haystack Syndrome.
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Anil Rathi of Innovation Challenge has interviewed me for their audio blog. I focused on the idea of networking and the ideas that a number of concept plans had for developing networks and community around the services being offered by the sponsoring companies.
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If all goes well, this will be my 1000th post to Knowledge Jolt with Jack since I started in May 2003. Thanks to all my readers -- and thanks to all the people out there I read and who inspire me to think and participate.
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Terrence Seamon has some interesting thoughts on faciliation skills. Facilitation is a big challenge of the TOC Application Expert training.
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Knowledge management and organizational development can work together to grow an organization.
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Accsys Corporation has created a KM Market Map. This provides one perspective on KM. There are many.
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Kris Olson at Wiki That suggests that "What's Missing Is a 'Home' for Groups" in response to Clive Thompson's life hacking article. I suspect wiki's aren't quite enough, and I don't know where we will end up.
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I'm moving some things around here at Knowledge Jolt with Jack. I'm slowly going through my archives and adding additional keywords and excerpts to old articles.
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Has anyone figured out how to make MindManager mind maps searchable?
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efios points to "Identifying Communities of Pracice" from the Shadbolt research group. They have created Ontocopi to parses an ontology to decipher the knowledge networks represented therein.
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A piece from the ASU WP Carey School of Business states that to "'Know Thyself' is the First Step to Successful Knowledge Management." I particularly like their effort at defining characteristics of organizations which are more likely to succeed in knowledge management.
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My blog appears to be worth $63,793.02 today. The Business Opportunities Weblog lets you do the calculation.
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Reference: Joining Dots has a good entry on the familiar question of "what is knowledge." JD has adds "cleverness" to the mixture of data, information, knowledge and wisdom.
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Joy London reminds us that To Classify is Human with a piece on taxonomies in law firms. It's not folksonomy vs taxonomy, it's both.
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A review of "Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management," which is a collection of articles based on a 1999 workshop, focused on internet technologies.
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Ed Vielmetti writes that shared context is important and that it is getting lost, particularly for people who are all-virtual-all-the-time. Shared context is important because of the sense of trust it creates, which enables work.
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Some incomplete thinking: What happens to a topic-centric space as the interest of the participants shifts? Does this relate to categorization and folksonomy?
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BusinessWeek's Oct 3rd cover story, "The Real Reasons You're Working So Hard..." is an interesting article on the history of long hours and how the problem is spreading outside of the U.S. It also covers a number of possible solutions.
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"What is your 'ideal' feature set for an aggregator (feed reader, RSS reader)?" It needs to stay out of my way, so that I can spend as much or little time reading as I want. Here is a laundry list of things I'd like to see.
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Someone is claiming to be the only WYSIWYG blog editor and buying AdWords to prove it.
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This isn't really an All Request Day, like Dennis or Sherry do, but a commenter has asked for my impressions of the TOC training I took this summer.
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Thanks to far too much time on my hands, I have now hand-coded a tag cloud for this blog.
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CNA Insurance presented their internal knowledge management solution at the October 2005 KM Chicago meeting.
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Jeremy Aarons of Dubbings and Diversions asks a familiar question, Who isn't a knowledge worker? How important is this distinction, I wonder?
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Jim McGee and I are going to host a session on KM / Collaboration during BlawgThink 2005, here in Chicago.
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I know I am a little late to the game, but I just finished the very enjoyable The Innovator's Solution by Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor. I particularly liked the no-nonsense tone of the book. And I see some connection to theory of constraints, once again.
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Bruce Hoppe finds an interesting set of discussions that suggest "conflict is good" in his "Conflict: something we can all agree on." I wonder if there is a connection with constraints in TOC.
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Euan Semple writes about an opportunity for KM from the perspective of all the hoopla about "web2.0" in "The Obvious?: KM 2.0." I relate this to the change from old school expertise locators to what they are becoming today.
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CNA Insurance will present their Performance Support Tool at the October 11th meeting of KM Chicago, located at the CNA Plaza and via webinar.
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"They Just Don't Get It! (Changing resistance into understanding)" by Leslie Yerkes and Randy Martin is a quick and entertaining read. It is written as a how-to manual, not unlike the top-seller "Who Moved My Cheese?"
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Ton Zijlstra has been thinking about his information strategy and focuses on his tools this time. I particularly like that his graphics that show his process.
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"Mapping Knowledge Domains Colloquium 2003" is an interesting person-topic map for a conference. I would find this sort of map to be incredibly helpful coming into a conference or other meeting of people who I don't quite know yet.
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Rashmi Sinha put together "A cognitive analysis of tagging (or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular)" that I found to be illuminating. The short version: tagging is a simpler process because it lets us annotate something with all the concepts that it fires in our brains. Categorization forces us to pick one of those concepts.
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