Dana Dolan found an interesting quote from Richard Templeton of Texas Instruments, "the biggest thing you do to reward great business people and great technological people is to give them harder problems."
The latest Communications of the ACM has a great set of articles on Personal Information Management. I provide a rather detailed review of the collection, as the topic interests me greatly.
Sylvie Noel has a basic suggestion on How to get better information from an expert: "[I]f you want to understand your local expert, tell her how much you already know about the subject. That way, she can adjust her vocabulary to your needs."
Michael Schrage's "Making IT Work" editorial in the January 2006 CIO Magazine riffs off the results of the magazine's State of the CIO survey. "CIOs may think that backlogs are their biggest pain point. But the real cause of IT failure is mismanaged expectations."
Apparently Robert Fripp has been picked to create the sounds for the new operating system from Microsoft, Vista. Robert Scoble (or Charles Torre) has published a 25 minute video of the session.
The RSS Blog points to a new way to peruse your Flickr images with photoblogger. It is very much geared toward finding pictures, rather than browsing in the standard Flickr mode.
Another article on KM mistakes / myths, this time from Michael Gilbert at Nonprofit Onlines News: "Seven Knowledge Management Mistakes." He also introduces his idea of The Tyranny of the Tangible.
Jack Dahlgren suggests that we should treat "The Schedule as a Symptom" at his Project blog. I like the description of the schedule as a hoped-for picture of how the project will go.
Christian Wagner discusses the problems with knowledge acquisition and suggests that wikis in combination with communities might be a solution for knowledge acquisition where more formal processes have failed.
A little entertainment from Paul Graham: "Good procrastination is avoiding errands to do real work."
Joy London points to "Lisa Kellar's MS Outlook: KM Friend or Foe?" The answer to the question posed by the article isn't yes or no, it really does depend on what you want as a result.
David Anderson's "Drumming in the Dark" talks about what happens when the constraint isn't obvious. The answer is deceptively simple, and TOC provides guidance.
The December 2005 Business 2.0 has an article about Dell's newest manufacturing facility that may reflect theory of constraints principles: "Dude, You're Getting a Dell--Every Five Seconds."
Dennis Reyes at ITtoolbox's writes "That Won't Work Here...It's too Transparent!" which suggests change management needs to be a critical aspect of business changes.
SNA expert Robert Cross writes about "Knowledge Loss in Organizations." I like the emphasis on using SNA as a diagnostic tool, particularly as he talks about the differing impacts of Central Connectors, Brokers, and Peripheral Players.
I met David Eads of FREE GEEK Chicago (and several other place). If you are in or near Chicago and have use technology or your own time to donate, look them up.
A quoted name search nets me 79,000 hits on Google. An ego search on my name nets about seven times that many.
The December 2005 Mindjet Insider Newsletter focuses on the topic of "Tapping into Corporate Knowledge." In all their examples, the use of the mind map goes beyond the single-user to the collective.
I'll be paying attention to other things (family) for the next couple of weeks, and have programmed a couple future blog entries to make it seem like something is happening here. I will start the break with a bunch of questions that have bugged me and I can't quite figure out where and how to ask about Outlook and other tech.
Jeremy Hiebert found an interesting article about learning and personal "stuff" management. "Can personal digital knowledge artefacts' management and social networks enhance learning?" by Riina Vuorikari.