Jim McGee is thinking about "enterprise 2.0" and the importance of thinking styles.
Jim McGee is thinking about "enterprise 2.0" and the importance of thinking styles.
Jeffrey Phillips has some interesting thoughts on what he calls The Ad hocracy in organizations that appear to prefer doing things without well-defined processes.
The Chicago Tribune had an article on e-mail addiction that focused on Marsha Egan and her 12-Step program for overcoming e-mail addiction.
Mukund Mohan documents a case study that talks about what engages a community: interesting questions.
Computerworld interviews the authors of some new research on IT and productivity. Looks like some interesting though easily misinterpreted results.
Over lunch last week, Jim McGee mentioned the CIO Insight piece on Alan Kay in relation to personal effectiveness, and now he's blogged it.
Two funny things came across the aggregator today. The first is Mukund Mohan's tongue-in-cheek interview from the future, and the second is Valdis Krebs' find of a web gizmo that brings that future closer than I thought.
I read Bruce MacEwen fairly regularly for pieces like this one, "Do the Management Gurus Have Clothes?" I see a link to Theory of Constraints in his discussion.
Phil Wainewright has some thoughts around "Solving the 1:10:100% problem" of community participation: don't worry about it and focus on the people creating useful content.
Kyle McFarlin has published his Top 10 Mapping Shortcut Tips (MindManager & ResultsManager), and Jason Dorko followed-up with some more of his favorites. And here are a couple of mine.
Emily Chang jumped into an interesting discussion of one piece of personal knowledge management with My Data Stream.
Nimmy gives us a nice quote that appears to be a German proverb, "Who begins too much accomplishes little."
Lotus (IBM) is advertising how their products will help companies do knowledge management. ... Advertising on YouTube.
Sarah Elkins has posted her review of Introduction to Knowledge Management : KM in Business. The book looks like it needs to be on my list.
I joined a group of about a dozen Chicago Bloggers last night at Columbia College to talk about setting up new blogs and getting business with blogs.
Hal Macomber always has interesting things to say about the world project management. In Misunderstanding Project Planning as Anticipation he is thinking about the essense of planning.
David Anderson has a great comment on respect and courtesy. Courtesy is the baseline behavior. But without respect, it is difficult to get things done in any collaborative manner.
Ron Friedmann saw an interesting product demo from LexisNexis, which spawned some thoughts about the next life for search technology. This sounds like what Glenn Fannick of Factiva discussed at a KM Chicago event in December 2005.
I came across "How to measure effect of communities at the macro level?" by Mukund Mohan at the same time that I've been thinking about the reasons organizations look into communities. These ideas fit together nicely.
A new HBS working paper by Deishin Lee and Eric Van den Steen, "Managing Know-How," looks at companies that keep best practices and model employee use of the best practices and company decisions about recording new practices with an economic model.