The previous post, Exploring Processes , claimed that business processes are fundamentally social. from Chapter 2 of Smart Working: Creating the Next Wave: Weick tells us that the double interact is the stable component in organisational growth and decay, and that inter-locked behaviours are the elements that make up dynamic processes. MORE >>

PKM is an individually created process. Tim Kastelle has discussed how important it is to Filter , in the process of Aggregate-Filter-Connect. Ross Dawson shows five ways to add value to information (my examples/descriptions follow): Filtering (separating signal from noise, based on some criteria). MORE >>

We need better analytics that can reveal patterns and connections in information abundance that we may have missed. We need technologies that can automatically detect and raise the profile of interesting patterns within an information stream. An event collapses the information trail into a state of patterns that seem obvious. MORE >>

When preparing to jump across a gap, for example, you may visualize yourself landing on the other side. If, for example, you are looking at a 5 meter gap, you should be asking, "How many times have I successfully jumped 5 meters? Things fall, for example. For example, when your boss says something to you, apply the same test. MORE >>

The process of seeking out information sources, making sense of them through some actions, and then sharing with others to confirm or accelerate our knowledge are interlinked activities from which  knowledge (often slowly) emerges. Synthesis (describing patterns, trends or flows in large amounts of information). PKM SocialLearning MORE >>