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In search of failure

Posted in KM, Projects on 13 October 2008 | 1 Comment »

I am speaking at a conference tomorrow, looking at case studies of KM systems implementation. During my preparation, I was struck by how much I was concentrating on the things that went wrong. On reflection, I think this is correct.
Last week, Shawn Callahan asked why business writing tended not to use examples:
I suspect it takes [...]

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Document management and collaboration

Posted in Collaboration, Culture, Knowledge, Lawyering, Projects, Technology on 28 February 2008 | 1 Comment »

James Dellow has neatly summarised a discussion about the relative merits of wikis and document management in law firms. Reading both reminded me that I owe an former co-conspirator my view on document management systems as a tool for collaboration. I hope what follows will suffice.Like most law firms, we have a document management system [...]

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Projects, choice and satisfaction

Posted in Irrationality, Management, Projects, Rationality on 6 February 2008 | 1 Comment »

Patrick Lambe points to an article in the Des Moines Register reporting on research done at the University of Iowa.
The team’s paper, “The Blissful Ignorance Effect,” shows that people who have only a little information about a product are happier with their purchases than people who have more information, the U of I reported. The [...]

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