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Archive for July, 2008

The new Glossators

Posted in KM, Lawyering, Tradition on 30 July 2008 | No Comments »

Today I stumbled across Paul Maharg’s account of last April’s KM Legal conference (Day 1 | Day 2). I was glad I did: having helped the conference organiser to design the programme, I was very cross that I couldn’t get to it because of clashing commitments. In particular, I had wanted to see Paul again [...]

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Good, better … best?

Posted in Best Practice on 30 July 2008 | 2 Comments »

A while ago, I promised Mary Abraham a summary of my thoughts on “best practice”, which grew into quite a long draft, and then WordPress and I conspired to lose it. Rather than try to re-create it, I have started again. Undoubtedly, the lost version was much better.
In my comment on Mary’s blog, I mentioned [...]

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Motivation

Posted in KM, Rationality on 25 July 2008 | No Comments »

Here’s an odd press release:
De-motivated UK workers feel the heat of ’summer sad’
Over half (58 per cent) of UK workers suffer from ‘Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder’ which leaves many de-motivated, unhappy and even close to quitting their jobs, according to a poll released today by the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA).
According to this [...]

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Getting a clue

Posted in Clients, Culture, Web2.0 on 18 July 2008 | No Comments »

A little while ago, Doug Cornelius posted a review of Groundswell. At the time, I looked at the book and the authors’ blog;* I wasn’t tempted to buy it, but something looked familiar. When a colleague recommended the book to me today, I took another look and realised where the resonance was: the Cluetrain Manifesto.
I [...]

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Dilemmas

Posted in Collaboration, Innovation, Management, Rationality on 9 July 2008 | No Comments »

Reading Tom Davenport’s brief polemic on the meaning of management (and the comments on it), I have realised that some of the things that I believe (and have promoted here) may be mutually contradictory.
Commenting on IBM’s explicit change in terminology from “knowledge management” to “knowledge sharing”, Davenport argues that (a) the equation of “management” with [...]

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Going with the flow

Posted in Culture, KM, Technology on 7 July 2008 | 4 Comments »

I had a number of discussions with people last week that brought to mind Michael Idinopulos’s description of the relationship between wikis and work.
Wikis can be used for many different activities, which fall into two broad categories:

In-the-Flow wikis enable people do their day-to-day work in the wiki itself. These wikis are typically replacing email, virtual [...]

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Reading around

Posted in Collaboration on 2 July 2008 | No Comments »

In an earlier blog post, I referred to James Webb Young’s book, A Technique for Producing Ideas, which links innovation and creativity to the capacity to see new relationships between old elements. I was originally directed to the book by Shawn Callahan at Anecdote. Now Shawn has written a blog post on collaboration. In it, he [...]

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Beyond the Golden Rule

Posted in Collaboration, Culture, Technology on 1 July 2008 | No Comments »

I am still catching up with unread blogs, but I want to add something to Mary Abrahams’ commendation of the Golden Rule as the key to collaboration. As the Wikipedia entry on the Rule suggests (at the moment), it can be the cause of problems when there are differences in values or interests:
Shaw’s comment about [...]

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