December 2009 Archives

People don't like change, right? I came across an article by Richard Veryardthat seems to be part of a larger discussion. It's a beautiful example of where the focus on the software brings you a failure.

Matt Moore has a fun item about a severe disorder that strikes many companies, PEITSD - Post ERP Implementation Traumatic Stress Disorder. I love this, as it is both funny AND (sadly) true.

Several conversations have me thinking about why projects - any kind of project - falls off the rails so many times, even though people have articulated the lists of why this happens over and over again.

Sure there is a lot of "information" rolling by out there. But we have always filtered it. Here's another way to think abuot it from John Reaves.

I just received the alumni magazine from Penn Engineering, and it highlights the establishment of a cross-disciplinary program in Market and Social Systems Engineering in the engineering school.

Teleos and Rory Chase have announced their 2009 Global MAKE winners. Congratulations to all the organizations. There are many familiar names in the list from years past.

It's time for another all-about-me meme. I don't think I've posted one here in a long time, as most of them have moved over to Facebook and Twitter. (Thankfully, for the most part.)

Dale Arsenault gives us a straightforward description of collaboration in "8 Things You Need to Know About Collaboration."

Inspired by a comment from Robert Lavigne, "Sharing of new found knowledge is the responsibility of all knowledge workers." While many people see KM as all about the "management" and "collection" of knowledge, I have always seen it as about informing as many people as possible about what is going on / what is going through the organizational mind.