Thanks to Cindy Gordon who gave me a copy of the book she just wrote with John & JoAnn Girard, Business Goes Virtual: Realizing the Value of Collaboration, Social and Virtual Strategies. I will be interviewing Cindy for the Education Institute Conversations with Leaders series on Tuesday December 6th at 2pm EST. The book begins with a definition of virtual business and the new face of organizations which is being enabled by social technology. Another enabler in the virtual world is leadership and Chapter 3 of the book shares stories of a number of businesses and the strategies that have been successful for them — lots of tips for any organization here! The culture of sharing and collaboration is another enabler for virtual business and the book includes some great stats on the return on collaboration. Virtual worlds and their adoption by tweens is covered and discussed as an impact for organizations of the future. Strategies for and examples of successful organizations abound — you’ll get lots of ideas and insights from the book and from my interview with Cindy. Get the latest strategies and insights for any organization as our world becomes more virtual. Join us. Register here.
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Michael Edson, Director of Web & New Media Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution, has interesting insights & is always researching and learning from others. Innovation is a topic he has researched and he’s going to share practical nuggets with the audience of Computers in LIbraries 2012. Here’s a sneak peek at what he’ll be talking aboug: Creating Inspiring Services Edson begins by talking about what it means to be “innovative”: how to recognize it, how to make it happen more, and how to prevent the opposite from happening. Using his past five years of experience moving a respected cultural institution into the 21st century, Edson shares his lesson learned, creative strategies, tips and more. He understands how to engage his community, how to create and support an innovative culture, how design exciting new services and to put that knowledge into practice. Filled with lots of examples, he inspire us to create innovative services for our communities. Another indication that Edson knows how to engage his community? He’s also researching organizations that get more than one million hours per year of volunteer effort through their websites. Hope he shares what he learns with the audience of Computers in Libraries 2012. I can’t believe it’s been almost a month since we’ve posted on our site — too many conferences and work with clients. All wonderful and very stimulating. We’ve been brimming with things to say but no time to put them into words, so hopefully this is the beginning of many new posts to come! We’ve talked a lot about thinking critically and strategically as well as creativity. Today Don Tapscott pointed me to an interesting article on creative thinking, an excerpt published by Fast Company from a book, Bob Gill, so far. As author, artist & graphic designer Bob Gill says, “Interesting solutions begin with interesting problems. So reframe the problem.” Rebecca and I have been working with clients on “reframing” their perspectives and challenges, so I’m looking forward to reading more in Gill’s book. I was also inspired recently by some creative ideas from KM evangelist Bob Buckman who spoke at KMWorld 2011. He said to me, it’s necessary to move “an organization to a decision making process that is faster than the competition. Speed of Innovation is the key to competitive advantage. Being able to innovate around the needs of the customer is great, but if your competition does it faster than you, then you still loose.” I’m planning to use some of this words as a theme for KMWorld 2012: Knowledge Sharing & Learning: Communication, Collaboration & Innovation. The call for speakers will be up at the beginning of January and from all the buzz following KMWorld 2011 I know we will Continue reading Creative Thinking, KM & Innovation An interesting study by MDC Partners & Allison & Partners called the C-Factors Report points to creativity, collaboration and culture to re-engerize today’s global economy. They surveyed leading CEOs & CMOs who view creativity as a criticial driver of the global economy. Great stats & insights: * 73 % of respondents think we’ve entered the “imagination” economy, with 98 percent affirming that creativity is critical to economic success today * 76% state that creativity has a significant impact on driving business forward * over half (57%) strive to develop a strong creative culture within their organizations; & 80% believe creativity must be generated and fostered by industry leaders in order for new and innovative thinking to survive * 73% of senior executives will place an increasing emphasis on creatively inspired communications in the coming years “Creating a vision, and building a defined culture around that vision, was a strong theme. Thought leaders from start-ups such as Inkling, to legacy companies such as IBM, all cited the need for deep discipline and a firm self-audit process to unleash the broadest creative efforts possible within a corporation.” I’ts exhilarating for Rebecca and I when we work with clients to create visions that are so exciting and forward thinking that organization leaders can build strong support for their strategies to guide them towards that positive future. I love the “imagination” economy mentioned in this study and the fact that leaders realize innovative thinking and creative cultures are so important today. Goes back to my favorite Walt Disney Continue reading Creativity, Visions & Success Rebecca and I had an aha! moment earlier this year about calling databases (the staple for librarians for years) websites. That’s what resonates with our customers — websites. They may be specially priced websites, or some that require a fancy login, but they are websites. For those of us who learned about databases so many years ago, repeat after me, “websites, websites, websites!” NO MORE ELECTRONIC DATABASES, ONLINE DATABASES, or just databases. WEBSITES only! It’s one of those “whack on the side of the head” things. Get on board. I agree with Bill Kaplan of Working Knowledge CSP (Concept, Strategy, Practice), long time KM practitioner and consultant. On a recent forum discussion he said, “ I believe KM is about improving performance at the individual, team and organization level. As such, it is about (1) enabling an ability to make better business or operational (mission) decisions based on what you know about what you do, (2) to solve problems or address challenges with existing knowledge, and (3) creating new knowledge to solve new problems or challenges. For private sector CEOs, CFOs and other accountable business leaders and also the public sector leadership who get it, and whose existence, and perhaps business and sometimes personal lives may depend on a rapid ability to leverage their knowledge (information + experience), in the end, they will tell you we shouldn’t confuse effort with results … and who cares what it is called.” The term knowledge management means something different to almost everyone, in my opinion. I like to think of it as Bill does — sharing knowledge to improve performance, make better decisions, enable learning,problem-solving, innovation. This year’s KMWorld 2011, Nov 1-3 in DC has the theme, Networked Enterprises: Empowered to Share & Apply Knowledge, and is filled with practical tips and techniques for doing just that — sharing knowledge for bottom line performance improvement. Check out the high-powered speakers, practictioners and thought leaders. Register and join us for learning conversations, in-depth workshops, and lots of networking with colleagues. After all as Bill says, “it’s Continue reading KM: The practical side! |
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