Well, today was the "exit meeting" at my firm, where they give us the spiel about what to expect as we are "separated" from the company. My official last day is Friday, but they have my laptop and they have my ID badge, so I am outta there! We shall see...
John Parkinson, Chief Technologist for the Americas for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, spoke at the KMPro Chicago meeting last night on the topic of The Real Time Enterprise.
Computerworld last week had front-page article on "Information life-cycle tools appealing but remain distant."
Lee Lefeever has a nice article on a familiar topic for those that have been in the "internet" world for a while. The discussion has morphed from listserv vs. the Usenet to web-based forums, and now we can add the idea of weblogs. The issues remain the same. What does the group want?
My wife and I met two friends from the KM world for brunch this morning. Noreen Kelly is a communications specialist who has recently decided that this job market needs her to be a freelance specialist. Noreen and I are both e-zine writers for the Association of Knowledge Work (AOK), and...
At a party last night, I met Todd, a young high math teacher from Chicago's Nicholas Senn High School. Along with high school algebra, he is teaching a two-year program on The History of Knowledge in the Chicago Public Schools' International Baccalaureate program (pdf). This is an advanced academic program, but...
From Knowledge Board, comes an article about The use of Knowledge Management in Project Management in Russia - 28 Oct 2003 Knowledge Management - to understand and use the value of the relations between people. In order to gain an stable profit, the relations and interactions between people within one organisation...
I figured I should update my site design a bit. I've added an about page and moved a few things around. Why? I am leaving my current employement soon (in a week). In preparation for that, I have spammed my friends and colleagues with a link to this site. Any other...
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...
Ian Glendinning of Psybertron comments on my recent find of the WIKID Power hierarchy that adds Intelligence, Wisdom and Power to the usual Data-Information-Knowledge lineup. The D-I-K hierarchy is limited by the view of bits-of-stuff, whereas our full understanding of these higher properties ecompasses much more than bits: experience, culture, context. Attempting to break everything into bits typically loses the meaning of the whole. As Ian suggests, Power is orthogonal to all of these elements.
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)...