Results tagged “communication” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack

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.

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.

Chris Garrett has a nice list of suggested ways to use blogs as a piece of the project management communication puzzle.

Victoria Ward has an interesting piece on translating poetry that I think has a lot to do with the difficulties of knowledge management.

Michael Hugos has an entertaining piece in CIO India, "Body Language of Knowledge Management."

C. G. Lynch at CIO.com has Seven Reasons for Your Company to Start an Internal Blog from the just-completed Enterprise 2.0 conference.

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.)

Lilia found "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think" by Edwin Schlossberg. It's KM philosophy and it is communication.

Does anyone know of published research on the children's game of "telephone?" A friend was curiouis after my recent discussion of fun with email and interpersonal communications. The result of the game is usually gales of laughter from children when they realize how badly they mis-hear verbal phrases.

Wiio's Laws are a somewhat humorous take on human communications. Think of Murphy's Law applied to communications.

The Chicago Software Association held a seminar today on Why Projects Fail and What You Can Do About It with three speakers who focused on different aspects of the question. All three agreed on the main theme: Communication, early and often, is critical to successful projects.

People are talking about status reports and the new world of work. Writing, in general, is one of those hidden arts. Done well, people thrive. Done poorly, no one knows why people starve.

This Management by Baseball* article reflects an idea I ran across when looking into the KM program at Novartis. If you are going to make a change, then you need to get the idea of the change in front of the people in your organization, through both internal and external communications.