Really. KM is only "hard" if the change from what is happening yesterday to what should be happening tomorrow is significant to the people expected to make the change.
All in knowledge management
Really. KM is only "hard" if the change from what is happening yesterday to what should be happening tomorrow is significant to the people expected to make the change.
The KM Chicago meeting this evening was a panel discussion, chaired by me, in which we played off the recent Time Magazine Person of the Year recognition that user-generated-content is king in this world of YouTubes and Flickrs and the like.
Lucas McDonnell provides three tips (plus a bonus) to help with knowledge management. And he counters my recent piece on KM being "hard."
Teleos has released three more of their MAKE awards for 2006: Europe, Asia and India.
A friend pointed me to an item from the Accenture press releases about a survey they've done, "Managers Say the Majority of Information Obtained for Their Work Is Useless." Does this suggest a portal or something else?
David Gurteen posted a draft list of attributes of an effective knowledge worker. There are some interesting thoughts here, as well as comments from Jim McGee and others that round out the idea.
Shannon's Random Mutterings falls to the topic of knowledge management in "Why Is Knowledge Management So Hard?" For Shannon, KM is about doing well as an individual. I would add that there is an important component that related to how the group of us work together
Teleos has announced the Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises in North America for 2006. Raytheon has come in first in the rankings for the second year in a row.
CIO Magazine's Essential Technology column for by Scott Spanbauer is titled "Knowledge Management 2.0" this month. The lesson that CIO Magazine is trying to teach? There is no such thing as one-size-fits-all in the world of knowledge management.
Dinesh Tantri has an interesting thought about "Enterprise 2.0 Tools Don't Address The Politics Of KM." Enterprises are made of people who are used to the command-and-control days of knowledge management as document management: "corporate KM."
As usual, Denham Grey has produced a to-the-point piece on Social Search. He tells there is no good definition of Social Search, beyond the general idea that it is (web) search refined by a person's social circle. And I am not convinced they are the right direction for search.
Ah, to live in London. The sights, the sounds, the history, the Knowledge Cafes! The most recent event played host to knowledge management "guru" and blogger Dave Pollard, who talked about personal knowledge management.
Laura Quinn and Paul Hagen provide 15 Ways to Use Software to Improve Your Knowledge Management. This is a nice set of examples of general problem areas and some specific software that might help.
Clay Shirky has written another piece on expertise that delves into some interesting nuances about expertise that I enjoy.
The November KM Chicago meeting will be a knowledge cafe, a la David Gurteen.
I always enjoy the quip that most users aren't interested in search , they want to find . Ramana Rao goes further, Beyond Search is REAP.
Shawn Callahan has an interesting list of what he believes about learning. Interesting that his list has very little to do with formal education.
Peter Klein at Organizations and Markets has a thoughtful piece on seeming over-abundance of discussion of tacit knowledge. Interesting perspective.
At today's open house for Dominican's Center for Knowledge Management, Christina Stoll described a new analogy for knowledge management: a jigsaw puzzle.