Results tagged “CIOMagazine” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack

At least two items in my stream today have to do with effective meetings. One comes from CIO.com, Eight Steps to More Effective Meetings, and the other from the BusinessWeek Climbing the Ladder podcast on Managing Teams.

CIO Magazine generally gives you useful technology and management news. But sometimes, there are articles like this "20 USB Gizmos That Have No Place in the Enterprise (But You'll Love Just the Same)."

Rick Cook at CIO.com has a piece on How to Spot a Failing Project. I can't help but comment on the article after yesterday's post.

John Baldoni has a review of Frank Luntz' new book "Words that Work." I couldn't help thinking of The Leader with Seven Faces, as "what you say" is the first of these.

Matt Homann dug up a 1997 article on Honda from CIO Magazine that has an interesting description of their collaborative environment. I couldn't help think of "what good looks like" as I read the excerpt.

What are the common notions about "lost knowledge?" It turns out the common notions aren't always correct, according to a study from Lori Rosenkopf at Wharton.

CIO Magazine's Essential Technology column for by Scott Spanbauer is titled "Knowledge Management 2.0" this month. The lesson that CIO Magazine is trying to teach? There is no such thing as one-size-fits-all in the world of knowledge management.

"Beating the Boomer Brain Drain Blues" is a good overview of the knowledge retention problem facing many companies. It provides some suggestions on how to think about the problem, and there are many examples.

Michael Schrage's "Making IT Work" editorial in the January 2006 CIO Magazine riffs off the results of the magazine's State of the CIO survey. "CIOs may think that backlogs are their biggest pain point. But the real cause of IT failure is mismanaged expectations."

Referent to Tom Davenport's wrap-up of his knowledge work series for CIO Magazine, "Putting It All Together Again - The New Work Order."

Interesting back-and-forth between Jim McGee and Tom Davenport around Davenport's series on knowledge work in CIO Magazine.

This article is aimed at IT leaders, but it applies to any new technology and science. Enterprises need to have clear strategy that helps them evaluate new and existing ideas in terms of their needs.

Some thoughts on the CIO Radio interview with Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister around their new book, Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects.

Tom Davenport writes about the new "big thing" in relation to his new book, "What's the Next Big Idea." He promises a number of columns in future issues. I like his focus on knowledge processes.