Knowledge Jolt with Jack

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.