Think of the radical change that Twitter and to a lesser extent Facebook have wrought not just for passing around information but on the whole question of human identity. His subject is a reaction to the latest KM is dead pronouncement, something I suggested some time ago, although the death throws are taking longer than I anticipated. MORE >>

Merging informal networks post merger or re-organisation. Coevolution in biology occurs when two parties exert selective evolutionary pressures on each other as a result of which they are changed. Once that change happens, it cannot be reversed and there are many examples in nature. richer conversations. Reflections MORE >>

It all started as a means to understand how informal networks and supporting technologies allow grater connectivity and more rapid association of unexpected ideas and capabilities than formal systems. Membership of the community is by dint of training and/or function and is formal rather than informal. The domain of the expert. MORE >>

We've also discovered that mapping information flows between decisions based on narrative audits (I really need to blog about this) then contrasting that naturalistic this is how it is result with idealised process maps can be very powerful. Technically I suppose I mean systems dynamics, but the two are largely conflated these days. MORE >>

While the leader is informed by the processes to the left of the model (and therefore communication is key and we had a lot of good stuff on visualisation), on the right the leader has to be intimately involved in the data itself. I enjoy the responsibility of summary type presentations. Models. Filling in the gaps. Reflections MORE >>