Bruce Hoppe finds an interesting set of discussions that suggest "conflict is good" in his "Conflict: something we can all agree on." I wonder if there is a connection with constraints in TOC.
Euan Semple writes about an opportunity for KM from the perspective of all the hoopla about "web2.0" in "The Obvious?: KM 2.0." I relate this to the change from old school expertise locators to what they are becoming today.
CNA Insurance will present their Performance Support Tool at the October 11th meeting of KM Chicago, located at the CNA Plaza and via webinar.
"They Just Don't Get It! (Changing resistance into understanding)" by Leslie Yerkes and Randy Martin is a quick and entertaining read. It is written as a how-to manual, not unlike the top-seller "Who Moved My Cheese?"
Ton Zijlstra has been thinking about his information strategy and focuses on his tools this time. I particularly like that his graphics that show his process.
"Mapping Knowledge Domains Colloquium 2003" is an interesting person-topic map for a conference. I would find this sort of map to be incredibly helpful coming into a conference or other meeting of people who I don't quite know yet.
Rashmi Sinha put together "A cognitive analysis of tagging (or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular)" that I found to be illuminating. The short version: tagging is a simpler process because it lets us annotate something with all the concepts that it fires in our brains. Categorization forces us to pick one of those concepts.
"Why making the decisions the right way is more important than making the right decisions" is an interesting piece from the Ivey Business Journal.
Frustrated by a term that doesn't seem to mean anything but that all the techies are using? Lee, over at Headshift, gives a decent description of "What is Web 2.0?"
Is it me, or are there a heck of a lot of blogging and/or KM surveys coming out of late?
David Buchan suggests that a group needs to come to an agreement to always respond when asked. People in the group need to have some understanding of everyone's expertise as well.
Government Computer News reports that "NARA: New archive system could change records management." NARA has commissioned a new ERA that is to cover all governmental records in all types across all platforms.
I came across Itensil 's Teamlines recently, and it appears to be a good process / project management tool. And I see it as having some components of CCPM as well.
I'll be in Cleveland this week (end of September). If anyone would like to get to meet for coffee, I'd be delighted.
'Vision without execution is hallucination.' - Thomas Edison. And an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is a mirage (Goldratt).
I used to regularly read the blog of "Ed Taekema - Road Warrior Collaboration," but it appears that the server on which his blog was based is dead. Ed are you out there somewhere?
Dave Chu has been writing Knowledge/Action for a while, but he seems to be hitting his stride lately. This article talks about his genesis on the path: "A Neo-Confucian Approach to Knowledge Management."
Pop quiz: Do you want a bottleneck in your business? Why or why not?