Dave Snowden, Cognitive Edge, started with, “System design is not a linear process” and today requires a co-evolutionary approach. Key concepts: everything is fragmented, pattern based decisions (associated with the concept of mess), complexity & constraint, distributed cognition (from fail safe to safe fail experimentaiton), natural numbers (5, 15, 150) (some of which Dave covered [...]
Tom Reamy is, to many of us, one of the authorities on taxonomies. He’s talking right now about the varieties of taxonomy/text analystics software available now, and how to choose which is best for your application & organization. All the vendors are adding more text analytics. So…step number one is: how are you going [...]
A few months agoTheresa Regli of CMS Watch wrote a blogpost on whether taxonomies are dead or dying, or just hitting their stride. I thought this was a great question to address at the beginning of the Taxonomy BootCamp, and Theresa very kindly agreed to speak to the topic at 8:00 a.m. — & the [...]
Just posted on the KMWorldblog about a session I listened to at KMWorld & Intranets 2008 describing NASA’s experiment with social networking. Cool.
I’m delighted I’ve finally been able to hear and meet Jon Husband of wirearchy.com. Jon is one of the few, very few, people working with organizations to help them evolve their organization structures to support the collaborative technologies and resulting work behaviours. In most organizations there is this horrible disconnect between the hoopla about “working [...]
John Kao opened KMWorld & Intranets 2008 in San Jose this morning and drew lots of blog attention at the new KMWorldblog. Also check out comments from other bloggers at the conference. I loved John’s definition of innovation: a set of capabilities that allows continuous realization of a desired future. Some of his quotes: “Innovation [...]
Thanks Google for reminding me that today is the first day of autumn, although here in California at KMWorld & Intranets 2008 it doesn’t really look like fall. The workshops at the conference are now underway, Dave Snowden will lead a networking event this evening and our first keynote speaker, John Kao, will open the [...]
I can’t believe that I’ve been talking about urgency in the context of change and transformation for over 20 years, and now leadership guru John Kotter has a new HBS book, A Sense of Urgency, out on the topic. Here’s what it’s about. “Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm [...]
After hearing Doris Kearns Goodwin speak a few years ago at an SLA conference, I was happy to see her piece, The Secrets of America’s Great Presidents, today in Parade magazine which comes with the Sunday Washington Post. The author and presidential historian lists her top 10 qualities: the courage to stay strong, self-confidence, an [...]
I’m working away on my pet project & keen interest-area, Organization 2.0 — how organizations are evolving their structures, approaches, roles and responsibilities (plus governance, accountabilities, etc.) to truly leverage collaborative 2.0 tools and technologies. By the way, some of you should be prepared since I’m about to embark on a series of interviews to [...]