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Ricky Cheong has posted a slideshare presentation of his research progress on Personal Knowledge Management.
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%.
Mohamed Taher turned up a research paper that delves into the "Role of Information Professionals in Knowledge Management Programs."
Computerworld interviews the authors of some new research on IT and productivity. Looks like some interesting though easily misinterpreted results.
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.
Dave Munger at Cognitive Daily found a fun study about procrastination and deadlines. The short result: deadlines are effective means of reducing the Student Syndrome.
The Work Foundation has a new report that suggests the "Knowledge economy debate needs to move beyond platitudes." They are in the beginnings of a multi-year project to clearly define the knowledge economy.
Maron Demissie, one of the students in the MS LOC program at Northwestern, has just completed her Master's Capstone entitled, "The Quest for Increased Knowledge Sharing Within Design Firms."
Eric Tsui asked me to pass this research opportunity along. If you are in the region - or want to be - have a look at this opportunity to advance your education in KM with an Industrial and Systems Engineering perspective.
"Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" by John P. A. Ioannidis describes a statistical test for the likelihood of research being false, first without researcher bias and then a second test that includes bias. The result: it doesn't look good.
I came across "The knowledge management puzzle: Human and social factors in knowledge management" from the 2001 IBM Systems Journal. The authors use the metaphor of a jigsaw puzzle to motivate their discussion, suggesting that IT is only one of many pieces to the puzzle for knowledge management. And they also acknowledge that there are pieces they may not know that create still other pictures when the pieces come together. They also provide a great set of references for the curious.
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.
Lilia Efimova, aka Mathemagenic, is doing PhD research on weblogs and the connection to personal knowledge management.