Jeremy Wright in a June 2002 article at A List Apart gives a good summary of Time Management: The Pickle Jar Theory that is very similar to a demonstration that Steve Covey does in his time management workshops. Here is the important bit: I strongly encourage everyone to use at least...
Thomas Vander Wal has been thinking about the Personal Information Cloud of devices and information that roam around with you. iPIM and Chandler have a chair at the Personal Info Cloud There are two articles that are direct hits on managing information for the individual and allowing the individual to use...
Next week's (11 Nov) KMPro Chicago meeting will feature a talk by Richard Emsley of eXago. And the first 21 attendees will get a free copy of their eXero Summarizer. Lately, there haven't been 21 people at the events. Summarizer does semantic analysis of a document (or collection of documents) and...
Deloitte Consulting have been providing a Word plugin that helps detect meaningless jargon in your (or your company's) communications. BullfighterTM Stripping The Bull Out Of Business "A value-added, leverageable global knowledge repository." "Repurposeable, leading edge thoughtware that delivers results-driven value." "A future-proof asset that seamlessly empowers your mission critical enterprise communications."...
Interesting presentation on how law firms can drive profitability. The focus is on an IT audience, suggesting that their projects have to fit one of the five items below. In looking through the linked presentation, I hear strains of theory of constraints. These items are geared towards increasing throughput and decreasing...
Good reference from Denham for what to do throughout a project. Knowledge-at-work: Information gathering template When collecting information or doing research, I have found this collection of 'Ps' to be a useful way to organize the information, sequence intelligence gathering activities and ensure domain coverage. People Places Problems Promises Principles Patterns...
From Content Company: Content News No. 3, June 2003 we get "The Myth of Content Management" (about half-way down the page): The hype about content management is that technology exists that will, by itself, enable organizations to be more productive and reduce the cost of publishing content. However, unless an organization...
Drool. It sounds like I need to get to the library. Joy London points to a David Gilmour article that suggests taking advantage of our natural tendency to hoard knowledge. Make that work really well and then set up a system to help people broker that knowledge. I hear strains of...
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."