All in knowledge management
"The Winners of the 9th annual Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study have been announced by Teleos. Toyota is the overall Global MAKE Winner for the second year in a row."
George Siemens has an interesting comment about how decentralized communities could work - or how bloggers would like to see it work.
An interesting find from Dana Dolan on discussing productivity and whether collaboration projects require a leap of faith. I focus on the productity end of the question.
I use my writing both to formalize what I've been thinking as well as to get those thoughts into the larger world and see how they come back to me. Nancy White does the same thing.
Cognitive Daily asks, "How come my stats class wasn't this exciting?" This one has been making the rounds, but in case you haven't seen it and need some laughs.
One of the longest-lived topics in knowledge management is expertise location, from the early days of electronic yellow pages to the fun of today. What follows are my thoughts and some synthesis from recent articles on the topic.
Kent Greenes writes "Learning fast to stay relevant in a flat world." It's a nice, brief description of the Lessons Learned process as practiced by the Army and as described in Learning to Fly. I also like the link Kent makes to the importance of learning and reflection.
The classic problem of knowledge management is that most knowledge is tacit / implicit, but KM Systems want us to get things written out and "into the system." But getting things into the open has value in itself.
Eric Tsui asked me to pass this research opportunity along. If you are in the region - or want to be - have a look at this opportunity to advance your education in KM with an Industrial and Systems Engineering perspective.
Rich McCue provides an interesting paper, "Research in a Digital World - or - Personal Knowledge Management for Researchers." This could almost be summarized as "pay attention to your toolbox."
I had a discussion recently with someone who asked me, as a knowledge management strategist, how I would address the issue of getting buy-in from several different division heads for a IT-based KM project.
At Thinking Faster, Jeffrey Phillips is thinking about how we collaborate and share knowledge in the organization of today. Are you isolated or connected?
Jim McGee tells us that "Deliverables [are] the fundamental secret to improving knowledge work." I see a connection to Theory of Constraints in Jim's thinking.
My friend John Barrett has moved to North Carolina and started another KM group, the KM Network of North Carolina. If you live in the area and want a wider connection to the KM community, check it out.
Bill Brantley points to "The World is Round" by Laurence Prusak in the April 2006 HBR. Bill provides a nice review for people who don't get HBR delivered to their doorstep.
Kyle McFarlin makes a fun analogy in "Knowledge and Yardsale Exercise Equipment" with the picture that people collect information because they can, like the exercise equipment you see at yardsales.
Dinesh Tantri makes an interesting link between the Freakonomics' discussion of incentives and that of incentives for sharing in a recent article.
For anyone who feels they have the time, Caroline De Brun in the KM group at the U.K. National Health Service is building a KM glossary and is asking for help. Here are some stabs at additions.