February 2008 Archives

There is a promising-sounding article in the February 2008 Communications of the ACM, Sharing Knowledge, by Peter Marks, Peter Polak, Scott McCoy, and Dennis Galletta.

There has been a lot of discussion of what the web is all about and where it is going. Nova Spivack has a great discussion of this available as a video.

According to a collection of researchers centered around MIT, In today's knowledge-based economy, it pays to be an "information hub." I am not sure I believe the conclusions, based on the information presented.

When we talk of D-I-K, the Ice-Water-Steam analogy may be useful. Thanks to the Act-KM mailing list.

David Weinberger pointed out some "Cool visualizations" last week, and I just had the chance to take a look. Their visualization of del.icio.us links and tags is nice, but I can't see a way to get at my tags.

Forgive the rant. But information technology projects do not knowledge management make.

Jonathan Spira (CEO of Basex) writes an entertaining piece in the February 2008 KMWorld, "Knowledge worker: Do you relate?."

Michael Krigsman at the IT Project Failures blog at ZDNet has an analysis of an ERP project failure. I wonder if it is the fault of the vendor or the buyer?

Stuart Rosenberg from Deloitte spoke on expertise location at the KM Chicago meeting this evening. His focus was on the iConnect (Tacit Software) roll out in the company for expertise location.

The AMA Moving Ahead newsletter for February 2008 includes the article "How to Disagree with Your Boss—and Win." But my brain is funny: I misread the first line.

I'd really like to be able to turn off the internet connection across the USB connection. But I want to be able to control it easily. There is no clear answer, yet.

Dennis Kennedy has an interesting observation about IT and the specific implementation of IT to serve a business. I see it at my new company. And I see it in KM.

In case you work for a company where there is an impending wave of retirements, you probably have it much easier than does NASA.

The November 2007 Harvard Business Review has an interesting article on knowledge sharing and interface constraints: Are Your Engineers Talking to One Another When They Should?

This week I attended an Effective Business Presentations Skills workshop from Mandel Communications, a two-day session that is heavy on the practice of the guidance they provide.

The February 2008 Meeting of KM Chicago will cover the perennially-favorite KM topic of expertise location.