After hearing David Ticoll talk in November, I went out and picked up his book. Transparency in business is clearly an important topic, but it wasn't until the end of the book that I got the big picture via their examples.
Next week's (19-30 January) AOK STAR conversation will be with Rob Lebow on Enabling Accountability. Here is the official introduction: AOK: Preparing for Conversations with Rob Lebow And here is a quick summary from the recent AOK K-Net EZine: January's STAR Series' moderator, Rob Lebow, has spent 20 years learning and...
Buying a laptop isn't as straightforward as it would seem. There are far too many variables and not enough understandable information. The goal of this entry is to clarify some of the confusion. I am sure this will be out of date, as soon as I submit it. I suppose the...
Not everyone thinks the days of e-mail are numbered. Robert Hamilton and Ben Bradley write in Darwin Magazine about the how ingrained e-mail is to how we work. And, rather than fight it, they suggest one direction may be in creating environments which work seamlessly with email. They focus on collaboration...
The TOC YahooGroup has been talking about Deming's Funnel, and a smart person finally asked what it was. A quick google nets a wide variety of explanations. Tampering and effects diagnosis from the QualityAmerica knowledge center was a useful verbal description. And Yonatan Reshef at the U of Alberta has a...
Interesting article from Kevin Desouza about knowledge transfer encouraged over ping pong and coffee.
Report from the top: Overview of the CKO Summit - Mary Lee Kennedy, Microsoft Director of Knowledge Network Group at the KMPro Chicago Chapter meeting 13 January 2004. Summary: Each year some of the top CKO's from around the globe meet in Ireland for a 'CKO Summit', an opportunity to discuss...
Frank Patrick has a piece today on the Otis Redding Theory of Measurement that he got from Fast Company via some Otis lyrics, "I can't do what 10 people tell me to do, so I guess I'll remain the same." Frank's summary: "Too many measures are not only distracting, but are...