Results tagged “collaboration” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack

A couple tools lists turned up recently that might be of interest. One is the I&DeA publication of "KM library: tools, techniques and case studies." And the other is Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell's "The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies."

There is an interesting pair of articles that focus on collaboration in the April 2008 Communications of the ACM. And one of them leads to even more interesting stuff.

The ARC Advisory Group have developed a concept they call Collaborative Manufacturing Management. I don't see any collaboration in their description. It's integration.

Pick just about any word, and you will find many potential definitions or common usages. Take "collaboration," for example.

James Robertson is continuing his thoughts about collaboration with this paper, "Collaboration is about people."

Eric Mack is looking for anecdotes on "How to kill collaboration & productivity with bad policy." I see a connection to trust.

Dave Snowden lays out a fairly reasonable discussion around why blogs can be considered knowledge management (collaboration) tools.

The second day of the TOC ICO conference was another full day "upgrade workshop" with Eli Goldratt. He covered a Strategy & Tactics Tree for developing a mutually-beneficial collaboration between a manufacturer and a distributor. There were some other TOC tidbits throughout the day.

At Thinking Faster, Jeffrey Phillips is thinking about how we collaborate and share knowledge in the organization of today. Are you isolated or connected?

Martin Dugage has a relevant piece for me today: "Collaboration tools for communities of practice." An email discussion group I belong to vanished and is rebuilding itself in two directions: either as email discussion or a message board.

Bruce Hoppe writes What P G Teaches and talks about how A.G. Lafley, the CEO of Proctor Gamble, operates his ship. He talks about collaboration - collaboration where people challenge one another on the validity of their ideas and plans.

At BlawgThink there seemed to be at least two camps of people when talking about blogging and blogging in the legal profession: laser focus, or laissez-faire.

Jim McGee and I did "Collaboration, KM, and the power of the virtual first impression" at BlawgThink. This is my what-I-meant-to-say version.

In an environment where everyone knows the goal of the system, collaboration become the way of doing business. People know what their roles are and how they support the goal.

Malcolm Ryder discusses the importance of collaboration and analytics for decision making in the operations environment: "Collaboration and Analytics: driving production with intelligence."

Sitting at LexThink today, which is a day-long Open Space session, where the organizers have gathered 50 lawyers, bloggers, authors, and independents. I was in a morning grouping around collaboration, we touched on a variety of interesting topics around how to make collaboration happen and where collaboration makes sense in the world of business. Some of the big hits for me were trust, passion, and a unique aspect of virtual collaboration.

It's several hours after BlogWalk with sixteen people, and I am feeling overwhelmed from the day of conversation, coffee, pizza, a snowball fight and more conversation.

Stuart Henshall has some interesting thoughts about how blogging is evolving for him, and Ton Zijlstra followed that with addiional thoughts about Personal Presence Portals. When it comes to collaborating and developing new ideas and new products, the blog probably isn't the best tool. But blogs themselves will continue being interesting too.

This was a paper session on large display-based tools with three talks. The first was the reason I chose this one from the three available sessions, though the second turned out to be the most interesting to me.

Hal Macomber publishes regular e-Tips of the week. This week he reminds us how important it is to get up and get around the other people in your group. (Kinda operates against the absence make a team grow stronger article.)

Session report for CLLC - "Improving Collaboration Using AI-based Tools:" Bringing in Outside Knowledge, Improving Internal & External Search, Improving Collaboration.

Sam Marshall (Intellectual Capital Punishment) has some ideas about "collaboration is the new KM" that are interesting. Why? Collaboration = faster throughput with the same resources. Don't forget to be prepared.