knowledge+management category archives

Steven Wieneke has been active in the KM scene for quite some time. I discovered a whilte paper entitled, Success in any Economy, which talks about the value of BOTH written knowledge (explicit) and personal know how.

I came across a new-to-me KM blog from Chris Jones of SourcePOV and found a piece on KM and culture. And it seems to connect to another discussion on KM and ROI elsewhere.

Andrew McAfee applies the ideas of Pattern Language (which is new to me) to the differences between Enterprise 2.0 and Enterprise 1.0.

Michael Idinopulos at SocialText has an entry telling CIOs: It's Strategy Time in which he argues that Web 2.0 concepts and ideas (as described by Enterprise 2.0) provide an opportunity to move away from dealing with servers and firewalls to helping define the strategy for the business.

To follow on from my pizza-based KM post yesterday, KMWorld hosted a webinar entitled, "31 Flavors of Knowledge Management,"* so I signed right up.

In these days of budget cuts and layoffs, knowledge management must still live on. Marnix Catteeuw provides an excellent suggestion.

In the second issue of Smart People magazine is an article on the key shift from command-and-control to knowledge work, "Unmanaging knowledge - How to tell the boss to back off" by Charles Ehin.

Art Murray has extended his suggested transformations in An opportunity for real change, part 2, where he continues the idea of stepping back from the day-to-day to think about how the organization should work in the future.

Stephanie Barnes asks an interesting "Knowledge Management Question" at her new The Missing Piece blog. And I make the serendipitous connection to some KM poetry.

Today, there are many technologies that offer some form of expertise location, but how do they go about building that directory? And what are they anyway?

The Work Foundation continues to think about knowledge management - knowledge work, specifically - and the implications for KM in the U.K. They have a new study report out that claims "Employers squandering the talents of workers.

Smart People Magazine launches on 15 April 2009.

Nancy Dixon has a great post on "The Incentive Question or Why People Share Knowledge" - mostly it's about the Why. Why not more on the incentives? Because we don't need incentives to share with one another. We need relationships.

Dan Keldsen spoke at the Boston KM Forum this evening with the official topic of "Emergence - Get with it or fade away." Basically, though, it was about social media and how you can bring your company, your idea or YOU to the attention of other people.

Carl Sagan: "Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligent is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used."