This is a wonderful rememberance from Chris Carmichael on just how bad things had gotten for Lance when he attempted to come back to the professional peloton in 1998.
I found Carol Kinsey "Goman's Five reasons people don't tell what they know" from June 2002. The short version is: power, insecurity, trust, fear, and "no one else does it."
The March/April 2002 issue of Ivey Business Journal had a piece by Nancy Dixon, "The Neglected Receiver of Knowledge Sharing." Dixon presents a helpful perspective to the concept of knowledge sharing, and one that I've heard in pieces previously. The discussion also makes it clearer why best practice databases have such a hard time of it in the KM community.
A review of Andrew Hargadon's "How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate." I'd recommend this book for anyone interested in the general topic of innovation as well as for Hargadon's insights on how people interact and even a few comments about knowledge management.
Jason has an interesting piece on "How the lack of constraints killed the quality of Star Wars." He says, "Constraints drive innovation and forces focus. They are to be embraced, not removed."
The Intranet Journal has an article from Paul Chin on "Dealing with Information Overload." He's got some interesting comments about the effect of having all this information available, primarily it looks like attention deficit disorder.
USA Today has an opinion piece from Matthew May on Lance Armstrong's final bid for the Tour de France's maillot jaune (yellow jersey). "Innovative Armstrong changes the way we compete."
Brian Livingston wraps up his series in IT Management on Picking The Best RSS Client with the entry on desktop-based aggregators. With this entry, he has discovered the same thing I've found.
An interesting paper by Sveiby et. al., "Knowledge Management and Growth in Finnish SME's," shows a positive correlation between KM and long-term sustainable growth of the companies.
Malcolm Ryder discusses the importance of collaboration and analytics for decision making in the operations environment: "Collaboration and Analytics: driving production with intelligence."
Last week Euan Semple said that KM is hogwash. This is an ongong discussion in the KM community and the larger community of skeptics.
Dave Pollard and some friends have developed Seven Principles of Social Networking. Throughout the article, he suggests that because of these principles, social networking applications have been going about the problem from the wrong angle.
Dinesh Tantri of Organic KM found "KM survey results-Economist Intelligence Unit." Dinesh found this interesting for the use of the word "actionable." I find this interesting as an expert in knowledge management and after spending my first week in Goldratt School.
I have been enjoying using Lektora for reading web feeds for the last week or so, and have some more comments. As I've said, the metaphor they use is the idea of the newspaper. You pick up the paper every so often, and toss it the recycling when done.
US Airways have done a nice job with the reservation system, reducing the headache of selecting flights and checking fares.
At the Wired NextFest in Chicago several weeks ago, I had my face scanned at the Direct Dimensions / Hanson Robotics booth. Pretty cool picture.
Brian Livingston at IT Management has published the second of his three-part series on web feed aggregators, which compares Bloglines, My Yahoo and NewsGator Online. He picks NewsGator as the best of the three.
At KM Magazine, Judith Lamont writes that "Law firms reinvent KM." The article describes KM initiatives at a number of different approaches to doing knowledge management, most of which have technology as important components.
I've been using the aggregator Lektora exclusively for the last week or so. I find myself drawn to the different way Lektora sets up the reading experience.
Duane McCollum, the information auditor, stumbled upon two interesting references about information disasters and the cost of them in his "Great Information Disasters?" An additional information "disaster" in my mind is that people get lost in analyzing the data and lose sight of the goal.