Places to Intervene in a Systemm, a 1997 article by Donella Meadows has been reprinted in a software developer magazine. Meadows was an important player in the systems thinking world. She founded the Sustainability Institute, and she seems to have been at least peripherally involved with theory of constraints.
KM Chicago's next meeting will be a presentation from Jason Marty of Baker & McKenzie on knowledge management in the legal industry and at Baker & McKenzie specifically.
In case you missed the important news , U of Scranton Prof. Joe A. Vinson (no relation), says coffee "has more antioxidants than any other food or beverage in the American diet."
Project managers should be responsible for all the white space between well-defined activities in a project plan, says Frank Patrick. The hand-offs are where fumbles and missteps are most likely to happen.
Has anyone come up with a tagging tool for personal use? I'd love, for example, to be able to quickly retrieve all my photos with my wife in them, regardless of date or location.
George Siemens talks about changes in the world of media in "Centering Agents." The beauty of the new publishing paradigm is that I can choose what and when I read new information.
Johanna Rothman is reflecting on coaching in "When to Speak and When to Be Quiet." This is a big challenge for me: I love to provide the "answer" when a topic arises and I think I know something.
Shawn Callahan at Anecdote mentions that "Chip Goodyear says $8.5B profit partly due to communities of practice efforts."
Dave Pollard has derived "Nine reasons we don't do what we should do," and I suspect there is an even deeper reason: motivation.
The 2005 Thunderbird Innovation Challenge is looking for judges to judge MBA student projects.
How much of your favorite caffeinated drink would it take to kill you? It would take 116 shots of espresso or 80 cups of drip coffee to kill me off.
David Weinberger always has thoughtful comments on a wide range of topics. Today it is "Knowledge is the neverending conversation."
The latest AOK Star Series with Piero Formica, starting now, highlights "Public-Private Partnerships for Knowledge Dissemination and Transfer."
In an environment where everyone knows the goal of the system, collaboration become the way of doing business. People know what their roles are and how they support the goal. [Update: Article no longer free.]
Joy London highlighted an interesting article about the value of conversation in knowledge-intensive firms.
The tocleaders YahooGroup has had an interesting thread on a sticky problem in business: how can it be that a company with hard-working people ends up losing money?
Dennis Kennedy pointed to something I hadn't seen before: Brian Eno (the musician, producer, and more) created a deck of cards to help unstick the creating process back in 1975, called Oblique Strategies.
A partial review of "Great Information Disasters'' from 1991. The book is a collection of "Twelve prime examples of how information mismanagement led to human misery, political misfortune and business failure."
Why not demonstrate "wifi everywhere" in a place where some of the technical infrastructure is already in place, like the airport?