How many projects in businesses today are focused on building / implementing a solution without understanding why? Your problem isn't the lack of a solution.
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How many projects in businesses today are focused on building / implementing a solution without understanding why? Your problem isn't the lack of a solution.
Sanjeev Gupta of Realization hosted a great conversation, describing his perspective on "what is TOC" (always an entertaining discussion) and what might be needed to improve the adoption of Theory of Constraints in business. The summary: TOC is not a philosophy. It is an operations management system based on three theorems.
The Fox News website has a nice summary of research into multitasking (task switching) and the impact it has on our ability to get things done. Always nice to have "official" outlets talk about this kind of thing. And I appreciate that they describe more of the nuance than simply "listening to music, doing homework, watching videos, and texting at the same time."
"We've just killed the buzzword of collaboration" is how Manager Tools close their recent podcast on the topic.
Collaboration is all around us. But so too is active disengagement of people we might expect would want to collaborate. Tom Graves provides some thoughts about this through the metaphor of a kids' train set.
Our definition of "good" is tied up in our values and the contexts in which we work. If you want "better" outcomes, then think about what you value in your work. Thanks to Dan Ward for putting these things together in my head.
What is "culture?" Patrick Dunn asks that question in "Culture eats strategy for breakfast - yes! But let's be clear what culture is." Any big change needs to be aligned with the organizational culture.
Dale Arsenault gives us a straightforward description of collaboration in "8 Things You Need to Know About Collaboration."
Luis Suarez has a great story about knowledge management from someone who has nothing to do with knowledge management in Knowledge Management - Where Are the Bees?
Lou Paglia has engendered an interesting discussion with "Knowledge is the important word" in KM at his blog. He suggests a shift to thinking "knoweldge enablement" instead of "control."
Communities and Communties of Practice, are they related? Are they different?
James Robertson usually has interesting things to say around knowledge management. This time he clearly states that There are no "KM Systems" in his latest CM Briefing Excellent.
I linked to the techno-centric description from the US government a few days ago, and both Yigal Chamish and Shawn Callahan rightly complained in the comments that it missed whole aspects of KM that are important to the field. Here is some thought on the way I think about KM.
A member of a mailing list pointed us to the US Government's definition of knowledge management. Even though the definition is fairly technology-centric, I generally agree with it.
The Work Foundation has a new report that suggests the "Knowledge economy debate needs to move beyond platitudes." They are in the beginnings of a multi-year project to clearly define the knowledge economy.
In case you have been wondering what the video-sharing service, YouTube, is about, this should give you the idea.