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This website covers knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints, amongst other topics. Opinions expressed here are strictly those of the owner, Jack Vinson, and those of the commenters.

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Jul 27
Jul 27 The Manufacturer - Interview - Dr Eliyahu M. Goldratt

jackvinson
theory of constraints

The Manufaturer has published a video interview with Eli Goldratt and Will Stirling, which appears to have been recorded after a seminar that Goldratt gave.

Jul 22
Jul 22 Why doesn't my computer understand me?

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technology, personal effectiveness

After years and years of promises and science fiction and tons of money spent on artificial intelligence research (in which I participated), computers are still slow and not prone to learning from user behavior.

Jul 20
Jul 20 Syndicating your blog: more than just publishing your feed

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blogs, self

A little more about blog syndication when it comes to a service like Newstex.

Jul 19
Jul 19 The hunt for experts

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knowledge management

There are a couple threads relating to experts and expertise running, and I have been wanting to mention them. One is a query from David Weinberger in KMWorld, and another is a project by Patrick Lambe and Matt Moore.

Jul 10
Jul 10 Keeping the joint running

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project management, theory of constraints

The recent IAM Talking podcast, "The Problems of Process, In Practice," Dan Keldsen hosts a discussion with Bob Lewis of IT Catalysts, and there are a couple of elements that really connected with me.

Jul 8
Jul 8 Re: Fwd: Your Subject Line Stinks

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personal effectiveness

The Xobni blog has a practical suggestion on making email easier to manage for your recipients with better subject lines.

Jul 6
Jul 6 TOC in software... and R&D

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theory of constraints

I am still looking for more thinking on how to apply Theory of Constraints ideas and thinking in heavily uncertain areas like discovery research, where typical drop-out rates are well above 80%.

Jul 2
Jul 2 Install Office and find an Easter Egg

jackvinson
blogs, technology

Well, not quite an easter egg of the hidden keystroke variety, but I did find something I wasn't expecting when I reinstalled Office 2007 on my computer.

Jul 2
Jul 2 Defense against the cliché

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business, random fun

Are you subject to lots of clichés? Are you a frequent user of clichés? Be careful. Phillip G Armour writes about this.

Jun 20
Jun 20 Cut the WIP, or Just Do It?

jackvinson
personal effectiveness, theory of constraints

There's a potential conflict between Getting Things Done and Just Do It. Here are some thoughts on the topic.

Jun 20
Jun 20 This is about that other thing, right?

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business, project management

Mary Abraham, always interesting, has a good one that relates to something I heard recently from one of my clients.

Jun 19
Jun 19 Planning when you think you can't

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project management, theory of constraints

I had lunch the other day with Johanna Rothman and the topic of planning research work came up. It is difficult to plan research work because the very nature of research is one of iteration and uncertainty. You don't know if your experiment is going to work, so how can you build a formal plan of everything you plan to do?

Jun 14
Jun 14 KM needs both implicit and tacit

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knowledge management

Steven Wieneke has been active in the KM scene for quite some time. I discovered a whilte paper entitled, Success in any Economy, which talks about the value of BOTH written knowledge (explicit) and personal know how.

Jun 12
Jun 12 Boeing receives TOC ICO award for achievement in 2009

jackvinson
theory of constraints

The TOC ICO has awarded Boeing with its award for achievement this year.

Jun 12
Jun 12 Culture and KM

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culture, knowledge management

I came across a new-to-me KM blog from Chris Jones of SourcePOV and found a piece on KM and culture. And it seems to connect to another discussion on KM and ROI elsewhere.

Jun 11
Jun 11 McAfee describing patterns between 2.0 and 1.0

jackvinson
technology, knowledge management

Andrew McAfee applies the ideas of Pattern Language (which is new to me) to the differences between Enterprise 2.0 and Enterprise 1.0.

Jun 11
Jun 11 An Attention Management solution to email overload

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technology, personal effectiveness

Craig Roth has posted his view on how the (Enterprise) Attention Management lens can look at the technical side of email to help with the information overload issue.

Jun 10
Jun 10 Is email really so evil

jackvinson
personal effectiveness

With apologies to my dear friend Luis Suarez and his goal of eliminating email, there are just times when email does the job fairly well.

Jun 9
Jun 9 Collaboration is going to happen

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technology, knowledge management

Michael Idinopulos at SocialText has an entry telling CIOs: It's Strategy Time in which he argues that Web 2.0 concepts and ideas (as described by Enterprise 2.0) provide an opportunity to move away from dealing with servers and firewalls to helping define the strategy for the business.

Jun 9
Jun 9 Ice cream and knowledge

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event report, knowledge management

To follow on from my pizza-based KM post yesterday, KMWorld hosted a webinar entitled, "31 Flavors of Knowledge Management,"* so I signed right up.

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