A piece from the ASU WP Carey School of Business states that to "'Know Thyself' is the First Step to Successful Knowledge Management." I particularly like their effort at defining characteristics of organizations which are more likely to succeed in knowledge management.
My blog appears to be worth $63,793.02 today. The Business Opportunities Weblog lets you do the calculation.
Reference: Joining Dots has a good entry on the familiar question of "what is knowledge." JD has adds "cleverness" to the mixture of data, information, knowledge and wisdom.
Joy London reminds us that To Classify is Human with a piece on taxonomies in law firms. It's not folksonomy vs taxonomy, it's both.
A review of "Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management," which is a collection of articles based on a 1999 workshop, focused on internet technologies.
Ed Vielmetti writes that shared context is important and that it is getting lost, particularly for people who are all-virtual-all-the-time. Shared context is important because of the sense of trust it creates, which enables work.
Some incomplete thinking: What happens to a topic-centric space as the interest of the participants shifts? Does this relate to categorization and folksonomy?
BusinessWeek's Oct 3rd cover story, "The Real Reasons You're Working So Hard..." is an interesting article on the history of long hours and how the problem is spreading outside of the U.S. It also covers a number of possible solutions.
"What is your 'ideal' feature set for an aggregator (feed reader, RSS reader)?" It needs to stay out of my way, so that I can spend as much or little time reading as I want. Here is a laundry list of things I'd like to see.
Someone is claiming to be the only WYSIWYG blog editor and buying AdWords to prove it.
This isn't really an All Request Day, like Dennis or Sherry do, but a commenter has asked for my impressions of the TOC training I took this summer.
Thanks to far too much time on my hands, I have now hand-coded a tag cloud for this blog.
CNA Insurance presented their internal knowledge management solution at the October 2005 KM Chicago meeting.
Jeremy Aarons of Dubbings and Diversions asks a familiar question, Who isn't a knowledge worker? How important is this distinction, I wonder?
Jim McGee and I are going to host a session on KM / Collaboration during BlawgThink 2005, here in Chicago.
I know I am a little late to the game, but I just finished the very enjoyable The Innovator's Solution by Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor. I particularly liked the no-nonsense tone of the book. And I see some connection to theory of constraints, once again.
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.