To Talk of Many Things has an entry on What if Clients Were to Pay for Knolwedge Management that focuses on legal KM. The "aha" moment is that inhouse counsel should cause their outside counsel to create "debriefings" at the conclusion of most large matters. Such debriefings would require some or...
The focus of this post is RSS and knowledge, but he provides an interesting description of what you get with freedom of knowledge. ICTlogy :: The four kinds of freedom of free knowledge Let me adapt the GNU project definition of the four kinds of freedom of free software: The freedom...
Mindjack has a writeup after attending KMWorld. He sees KM fading from the marketing, but possibly still working in the background. Is KM becoming a basic competency? Mindjack - Deconstructing Knowledge [The] momentum seems to be dead and buried, if the recent KM World-Intranets Convention in Santa Clara, California (Oct. 14-16)...
Interesting discussion in a small construction contractor forum. When I saw this the first thing I thought of was the five+ years it takes to build a new pharmaceutical API manufacturing facility. I have to believe it doesn't need to take this long. JLC Online: Is Our Industry Antiquated?. Check the...
In the current AOK STAR Series with Melissie Rumizen, Bill Hall made an excellent contribution to my understanding of the data-information-knowledge issue that gets discussed in KM circles. Fortunately, he also pointed to a web reference of the material from 1998. I've seen some versions of this before - that talk...
I am in the middle of reading The Axemaker's Gift: A Doubled-Edged History of Human Culture by James Burke and Robert Ornstein. I find it an interesting dovetail into my thinking about knowledge mangaement and the concerns we frequently hear about the over-selling of technical solutions to the general issues of...
Just in case it isn't clear to you how important team building and other human behavior aspects are to successful projects, this article describes the limits of hell that disfunction brings. halfass.com: Happy Family No Longer on halfass.com We used to be a happy family here at the technology arm of...
Referent to Tom Davenport's wrap-up of his knowledge work series for CIO Magazine, "Putting It All Together Again - The New Work Order."