Harvard Libraries’ new Library Lab “is inviting students, faculty, and staff to collaborate with the Harvard Libraries and serve as co-creators of the information society of the future.” “The University-wide Library Lab is designed to leverage the entrepreneurial aspirations of Harvard students, faculty, and staff, who can propose projects in all areas of library activity.” [...]
Jane has this fantastic ability to connect ideas from disparate areas into new ideas. I didn’t know there was a name for this ability until just now when I read BNET‘s posting about Dave Stewart’s new book. Jane – you are a polymath – meaning that you are knowledgeable about different things, and curious able [...]
Kiho Sohn, Chief Knowledge Officer for Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne raised an interesting question: why, at KM conferences, do we talk about innovation, but at innovation conferences there’s no mention of KM? Hm….. at PWR the expertise is in-house — not too many other companies are designing rocket engines. So they’ve concentrated on helping employees generate [...]
“Adopting technologies without a strategy results in wasted time & effort”. How many times have you said this? Check out KMWorld 2009 keynote speaker Charlene Li‘s slides. Some great tips. Her theme, “the future of business requires a holistic approach to adopting and integrating emerging technologies” is the same message Rebecca and I use with [...]
During the presentation of innovation awards at FASTForward ’09 there were some interesting comments about what search is. Help me make a longer list by adding comments to this post! Search is shortening the distance between users & offerings all about information management and information enables business a high end productivity tool
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 [...]