March 2008 Archives

The amount of email one gets on a daily basis or the size of the inbox is a constant source of bragging rights around the business world. It doesn't have to be this way.

Some good writing advice from Derek Lowe and some thoughts on LEAN-that-isn't from Mark Graban.

Doug Cornelius tells us about his experiments with "Wikis and Household Knowledge Management."

Steve Johnson of Pragmatic Marketing gave an entertaining and informative talk at the Boston Product Management Association meeting this evening.

I attended an excellent discussion (via webinar) of what product managers should be doing in organzations, from the perspective of Marty Cagan of the Silicon Valley Product Group.

Sharon Richardson wrote last month on "Information overload? Gimme more!" She suggested that, rather than worry about information overload, we should look to what the digital natives are doing.

I just discovered Brad Bollenbach's 30 sleeps blog on "open source personal development. He's got a bunch of great stuff, like this one from December, "Busy vs. Productive."

Here is an entertaining or sobering list of 43 knowledge management definitions - and counting from Ray Sims.

Annie Peng Cui at Kent State University is doing a survey for her dissertation on the value of product management.

Dave Simmons spoke at the March KM Chicago meeting on "Working with KM Building Blocks: Starting and Sustaining a KM Initiative at the local level." But I felt like this was almost a discussion of what any new Knowledge Worker should do when they are new to the job.

In a blinding flash, Stephen Dale reminds us that "It's not the (social networking) technology - it's the people that matter."

The concept of the supply chain is applied to talent management in a recent HBR IdeaCast with Peter Cappelli, and I am reminded of Reaching the Goal by John Ricketts.

Outside the normal topics for this blog, but I have to ask, "What were they thinking?" or more likely, "What did they expect?"

APQC is offering a series on Web 2.0 for KM that will inclue a number of phone calls and virutal site visits to discover how leading companies are using Web 2.0 in pursuit of knowledge management.

The central point of this case study is that any significant change can only happen when the people involved trust the process. And that can only happen with effective communication.

Expert Product Management puts one spin on product management, providing a quick overview of several areas in which product managers play.

David Weinberger has written "What's wrong with being right" in the March 2008 KM World. He highlights are a number of areas where authority is being challenged.

An article on What are people searching for and where are they looking?in the March 2008 KM World caught my eye.