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That framework is based on 5 different pillars that I consider essential for every Digital Transformation programme to be successful over the course of time and since I have already written about the first two ( What’s your purpose? Of course, I am talking about email. MORE
Knowledge is best remembered/stimulated by creating a rich context of decisions. Its now part of the teaching on day three of our accreditation courses and also a stand alone process that can be augmented using SenseMaker® but does not require that to work. MORE
As we head into the Northern Summer/Southern Winter (delete as applicable), we’re announcing our timetable of new courses for the second half of 2016. Today we’re announcing practitioner-focused courses on complexity and the Cynefin framework. Course 1: Dealing with Complex Problems. MORE
A place, over the course of the years, I can always return to and be just my self : . ‘[ …] a place for the sound of the individual’s own flawed voice in open conversation with others, building something bigger than itself.’. MORE
There's been a long running discussion around what Knowledge Management is going to look like going forward and whether big systems that manage knowledge are going to be there. Structure would come from a layer on top such as social bookmarking and digg, and, of course, from search across unstructured content. Do we really think that there will be a new wave of Enterprise Knowledge Management or other big systems MORE
Or perhaps jot down something that you would want to come back to over the course of time as you mature that idea further along. Oh, sorry to say this as well, but there aren’t any best practices on knowledge Web work, so you won’t be reading about any of them over here either, I am afraid! MORE
Whether that may well be rather accurate, or not, you can tell me in the comments below what you think about it, if you wish, I have got this little theory going on in my mind that we, knowledge (Web 2.0) Where will your organisation knowledge go after it dies in their own Inboxes? MORE
Finally, a quick short tip in terms of helping you potentially identify how many ways, and methods of delivery, you would want to make available to knowledge (Web) workers for whenever they may ask you what kinds of enablement materials are out there. MORE
and Social Business thought leaders and blogger extraordinaire, Oscar Berg , put together a rather inspiring article that I thought would be worth while reflecting on, specially, since it is at the heart of not just social software, but also collaboration and knowledge management in general. MORE
Institutional decision memories can describe how and why we, as an organization, chose one course of action over another. This is Big Knowledge Management , leveraging the power of enterprise software platforms to store decision, process, and event memories. MORE
I was therefore somewhat surprised when I found that most of the great knowledge management programs that I observed in large organizations around the world were eventually closed down, sidelined or shifted to the periphery. Why, I asked myself, did managements act this way? MORE
Those absolutely mind-blowing and rather provocative sentences, as depressing and as exciting as they may sound, don’t come from a knowledge worker working in a particular corporation protesting about the poor state of workplace learning or learning in general. MORE
and even then I would question the vast majority of that data to remain opaque, there is no reason for knowledge workers out there to continue to protect and hoard their knowledge, but, instead, they should share it along freely. For you, knowledge still is power. . MORE
Specially, when those meetings are not set up by you, but by everyone else, and therefore making you lose the control , once again, in terms of one of the most precious things all of us, knowledge workers, have that we don’t seem to treasure well enough: Time. Of course, they do. MORE
Pretty much like we did with Knowledge Management over 18 years ago and that we still haven’t managed to get it right , after all of that time. Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Social Analytics. Don’t you just love it? MORE
Well, mainly because if there is anything that I have learned over the course of time, and, specially, in the last couple of years, is that the world doesn’t use email. MORE
and, probably, it has been like that over the course of the last 25 years or so, when it first came about while being associated with the whole concept of groupware. More than anything else, because, if anything, as a knowledge (Web 2.0) . Can you have too many conversations at work? MORE
What if everything we have been told about Change Management over the course of the last few decades was all just … plain wrong? What if all of that literature around change management could be smashed with just a couple of tweets? MORE
That’s probably one of the best descriptions of why I have never believed in ghost writing myself either over the course of the last 10 years that I have been blogging already. IBM Innovation Knowledge Management Learning Metablogging Open Business Personal KM Productivity Tools MORE
Great post by Dave Pollard - Knowledge Management: Finding Quick Wins and Long Term Value the second Dilbert comic strip in the post is worth the visit to the page. Of course, so is the Quick Wins list. I'm probably particularly happy with the list because several items echo suggestions I've been making in posts such as: Managing your RSS Feeds PKM and Personal Learning Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 MORE
Or, better said, it all comes down to, finally, come to terms with the fact that our very own self-importance has managed to destroy Social Media and just leave it at Media , as we become … it. General Interest Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Open Leadership MORE
We have got it in our DNA an irresistible yearning to wanting to connect with other people, get to know them well by learn with / from them, to then collaborate more effectively by sharing your knowledge with them more openly. Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Open Leadership MORE
A lot has happened over the course of the last two decades both on a personal and work levels, as you can imagine, and, yet, it feels as if it was just yesterday. Now you know why I haven’t blogged much over the course of the last four weeks. MORE
While going through the different blogs I was subscribed to over the course of last few years, trying to see which ones were still being updated on a more or less regular basis, I found out how plenty of them no longer were having recent, fresh content (say, in the last 6 months or so). MORE
Needless to say it’s been a bit of a challenge as well to try to summarise my own Top Tools List for Learning down to just 10, more than anything else, because of how varied and mixed my very own learning needs and wants have become over the course of the last few years. MORE
For the moment I need to complete my summary of this bottom up too down emergent approach to creating a knowledge strategy. Instead this is a continuous process of mapping and strategy developed based on feedback loops and dynamic, but managed change processes. MORE
It’s ugly and it will become uglier over the course of time even more so if we keep ignoring the inevitable: change. . And initiate that process of self-healing that’s so very much needed in each and every single business today, in each and every single individual knowledge (Web) worker. . MORE
Today I completed Google’s Power Searching Course. After the course, I treat search more as an iterative process. I spent three or four hours taking the course. Course design. ” I complete the course with even more respect for Google. MORE
Did we manage to kill already the conversation in the so-called traditional social media tools landscape? Am I the only weird, freakish, strange knowledge (Web) worker out there going through that experience at the moment? MORE
From there onwards, we get to define, jointly with the knowledge (Web) workers themselves, what are the potential constraints, guidelines, policies, etc. Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Open Leadership #socbiz-adoption adaptation-framework MORE
A business and management system that haven’t changed much fundamentally in the last 150 years or perhaps even more so our very own mindset and behaviours and our inability to change even more so, if for the better? Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Personal KM Productivity Tools MORE
And begin work with them in executing such initial framework as we move further along, if the client agrees, of course. This usually happens when second, third or fourth waves of knowledge workers don’t follow the initial rage from the so-called early adopters group. MORE
. Over the weekend, the one and only, Dave Snowden , put together what I think would probably qualify as one of the top 3 blog posts you may well read during the course of 2016. General Interest Innovation Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Open Leadership MORE
I bet that’s probably the number one single question we all keep bumping into multiple times during the course of the day and, yet, we still haven’t got a clue about what the real future of work might be like in the long run. What’s the future of work? MORE
Well, one thing for sure is that it won’t be anything like we have today or what we may have had over the course of the last 50 years. Even more, I am suspecting that over the course of time, if not happening already today, we are going to make a very healthy split between work and jobs. MORE
To prove it, they selectively destroyed the machines owned by factory managers who were undercutting prices, leaving the other machines intact’. . culture), from document centric to people centric computing, and, finally, from replacing knowledge (Web) workers (i.e. MORE
For the better, of course. It’s a fascinating journey, it already has been for certain, seeing how there are plenty of differences, but also lots of similarities, in terms of how we, knowledge (Web) workers, operate whether working as salaried employees or just by ourselves, going solo. MORE
Knowledge-sharing practices are highly contextual. This makes sense when you consider that knowledge sharing is deeply personal as well as social, so it reflects the larger culture and the particular workplace. MORE
Have you seen “ Using Knowledge Management “? and Social Business are pretty close to some of the basic key principles behind traditional Knowledge Management, drafted back in the day, like I have blogged about, just recently, under the heading “ KM, Enterprise 2.0 MORE
That way you can see how I have used it as an initial conversation starter to then converse and learn plenty more about other related aspects of that transformation process, and the corresponding change initiatives, that have emerged over the course of time. MORE
There used to be a time when plenty of knowledge (Web) workers flocked to the Social Web to nurture, cultivate and build their own external social networks. Of course, that may well happen. It’s what knowledge (Web) workers do. MORE
Of course, we all know the tools can’t talk back to us, so they can’t defend themselves. It’s something that should be very much encouraged as our mere means of survival for us all knowledge Web workers. Innovation Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Open Leadership MORE
Of course, there are different kinds of pressure: time, stress, hectic (crazy) schedules, impossible goals to achieve, multitasking, not much thinking (just execute), yelling and screaming at others, and the list goes on and on and on. MORE
In a now more than ever hyperconnected, networked and complex systems driven working environment I pretty soon came to the conclusion, as I went solo and independent, that my odds to make a bigger difference out there would have been more notorious by being part of a network of rather talented, passionate, engaged, inspiring and rather thought-provoking knowledge (Web) workers, with whom, if anything, you sense you aren’t anymore the smartest person in the room, the network is. MORE
Luis Suarez
MAY 13, 2011
Have you seen “ Using Knowledge Management “? and Social Business are pretty close to some of the basic key principles behind traditional Knowledge Management, drafted back in the day, like I have blogged about, just recently, under the heading “ KM, Enterprise 2.0
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 5, 2013
Institutional decision memories can describe how and why we, as an organization, chose one course of action over another. This is Big Knowledge Management , leveraging the power of enterprise software platforms to store decision, process, and event memories.
Harold Jarche
APRIL 10, 2013
Knowledge-sharing practices are highly contextual. This makes sense when you consider that knowledge sharing is deeply personal as well as social, so it reflects the larger culture and the particular workplace.
Tony Karrer
JUNE 15, 2007
There's been a long running discussion around what Knowledge Management is going to look like going forward and whether big systems that manage knowledge are going to be there. Structure would come from a layer on top such as social bookmarking and digg, and, of course, from search across unstructured content. Do we really think that there will be a new wave of Enterprise Knowledge Management or other big systems
Tony Karrer
APRIL 2, 2007
Great post by Dave Pollard - Knowledge Management: Finding Quick Wins and Long Term Value the second Dilbert comic strip in the post is worth the visit to the page. Of course, so is the Quick Wins list. I'm probably particularly happy with the list because several items echo suggestions I've been making in posts such as: Managing your RSS Feeds PKM and Personal Learning Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Or, better said, it all comes down to, finally, come to terms with the fact that our very own self-importance has managed to destroy Social Media and just leave it at Media , as we become … it. General Interest Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Open Leadership
Luis Suarez
OCTOBER 17, 2016
and, probably, it has been like that over the course of the last 25 years or so, when it first came about while being associated with the whole concept of groupware. More than anything else, because, if anything, as a knowledge (Web 2.0) . Can you have too many conversations at work?
Luis Suarez
JANUARY 18, 2017
A lot has happened over the course of the last two decades both on a personal and work levels, as you can imagine, and, yet, it feels as if it was just yesterday. Now you know why I haven’t blogged much over the course of the last four weeks.
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
Needless to say it’s been a bit of a challenge as well to try to summarise my own Top Tools List for Learning down to just 10, more than anything else, because of how varied and mixed my very own learning needs and wants have become over the course of the last few years.
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Those absolutely mind-blowing and rather provocative sentences, as depressing and as exciting as they may sound, don’t come from a knowledge worker working in a particular corporation protesting about the poor state of workplace learning or learning in general.
Luis Suarez
OCTOBER 20, 2015
A place, over the course of the years, I can always return to and be just my self : . ‘[ …] a place for the sound of the individual’s own flawed voice in open conversation with others, building something bigger than itself.’.
Luis Suarez
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Whether that may well be rather accurate, or not, you can tell me in the comments below what you think about it, if you wish, I have got this little theory going on in my mind that we, knowledge (Web 2.0) Where will your organisation knowledge go after it dies in their own Inboxes?
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Did we manage to kill already the conversation in the so-called traditional social media tools landscape? Am I the only weird, freakish, strange knowledge (Web) worker out there going through that experience at the moment?
Luis Suarez
OCTOBER 31, 2016
From there onwards, we get to define, jointly with the knowledge (Web) workers themselves, what are the potential constraints, guidelines, policies, etc. Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Open Leadership #socbiz-adoption adaptation-framework
Luis Suarez
OCTOBER 10, 2016
. Over the weekend, the one and only, Dave Snowden , put together what I think would probably qualify as one of the top 3 blog posts you may well read during the course of 2016. General Interest Innovation Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Open Leadership
Luis Suarez
OCTOBER 20, 2016
That framework is based on 5 different pillars that I consider essential for every Digital Transformation programme to be successful over the course of time and since I have already written about the first two ( What’s your purpose? Of course, I am talking about email.
Luis Suarez
OCTOBER 8, 2015
It’s ugly and it will become uglier over the course of time even more so if we keep ignoring the inevitable: change. . And initiate that process of self-healing that’s so very much needed in each and every single business today, in each and every single individual knowledge (Web) worker. .
Jay Cross
JULY 20, 2012
Today I completed Google’s Power Searching Course. After the course, I treat search more as an iterative process. I spent three or four hours taking the course. Course design. ” I complete the course with even more respect for Google.
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
A business and management system that haven’t changed much fundamentally in the last 150 years or perhaps even more so our very own mindset and behaviours and our inability to change even more so, if for the better? Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Personal KM Productivity Tools
Luis Suarez
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Of course, we all know the tools can’t talk back to us, so they can’t defend themselves. It’s something that should be very much encouraged as our mere means of survival for us all knowledge Web workers. Innovation Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Open Leadership
Luis Suarez
AUGUST 17, 2016
We have got it in our DNA an irresistible yearning to wanting to connect with other people, get to know them well by learn with / from them, to then collaborate more effectively by sharing your knowledge with them more openly. Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Open Leadership
Dave Snowden
NOVEMBER 6, 2014
For the moment I need to complete my summary of this bottom up too down emergent approach to creating a knowledge strategy. Instead this is a continuous process of mapping and strategy developed based on feedback loops and dynamic, but managed change processes.
Dave Snowden
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
Knowledge is best remembered/stimulated by creating a rich context of decisions. Its now part of the teaching on day three of our accreditation courses and also a stand alone process that can be augmented using SenseMaker® but does not require that to work.
Luis Suarez
OCTOBER 4, 2016
To prove it, they selectively destroyed the machines owned by factory managers who were undercutting prices, leaving the other machines intact’. . culture), from document centric to people centric computing, and, finally, from replacing knowledge (Web) workers (i.e.
Luis Suarez
OCTOBER 6, 2015
For the better, of course. It’s a fascinating journey, it already has been for certain, seeing how there are plenty of differences, but also lots of similarities, in terms of how we, knowledge (Web) workers, operate whether working as salaried employees or just by ourselves, going solo.
Luis Suarez
OCTOBER 26, 2016
Finally, a quick short tip in terms of helping you potentially identify how many ways, and methods of delivery, you would want to make available to knowledge (Web) workers for whenever they may ask you what kinds of enablement materials are out there.
Luis Suarez
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
What if everything we have been told about Change Management over the course of the last few decades was all just … plain wrong? What if all of that literature around change management could be smashed with just a couple of tweets?
Luis Suarez
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Of course, there are different kinds of pressure: time, stress, hectic (crazy) schedules, impossible goals to achieve, multitasking, not much thinking (just execute), yelling and screaming at others, and the list goes on and on and on.
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
and Social Business thought leaders and blogger extraordinaire, Oscar Berg , put together a rather inspiring article that I thought would be worth while reflecting on, specially, since it is at the heart of not just social software, but also collaboration and knowledge management in general.
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
There used to be a time when plenty of knowledge (Web) workers flocked to the Social Web to nurture, cultivate and build their own external social networks. Of course, that may well happen. It’s what knowledge (Web) workers do.
Luis Suarez
MAY 22, 2013
Well, one thing for sure is that it won’t be anything like we have today or what we may have had over the course of the last 50 years. Even more, I am suspecting that over the course of time, if not happening already today, we are going to make a very healthy split between work and jobs.
Luis Suarez
AUGUST 25, 2016
And begin work with them in executing such initial framework as we move further along, if the client agrees, of course. This usually happens when second, third or fourth waves of knowledge workers don’t follow the initial rage from the so-called early adopters group.
Steve Denning
MARCH 20, 2011
I was therefore somewhat surprised when I found that most of the great knowledge management programs that I observed in large organizations around the world were eventually closed down, sidelined or shifted to the periphery. Why, I asked myself, did managements act this way?
Luis Suarez
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
That way you can see how I have used it as an initial conversation starter to then converse and learn plenty more about other related aspects of that transformation process, and the corresponding change initiatives, that have emerged over the course of time.
Luis Suarez
MAY 3, 2013
and even then I would question the vast majority of that data to remain opaque, there is no reason for knowledge workers out there to continue to protect and hoard their knowledge, but, instead, they should share it along freely. For you, knowledge still is power. .
Luis Suarez
MAY 18, 2013
Specially, when those meetings are not set up by you, but by everyone else, and therefore making you lose the control , once again, in terms of one of the most precious things all of us, knowledge workers, have that we don’t seem to treasure well enough: Time. Of course, they do.
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
While going through the different blogs I was subscribed to over the course of last few years, trying to see which ones were still being updated on a more or less regular basis, I found out how plenty of them no longer were having recent, fresh content (say, in the last 6 months or so).
Luis Suarez
MAY 6, 2013
Well, mainly because if there is anything that I have learned over the course of time, and, specially, in the last couple of years, is that the world doesn’t use email.
Luis Suarez
JUNE 6, 2013
Pretty much like we did with Knowledge Management over 18 years ago and that we still haven’t managed to get it right , after all of that time. Knowledge Management Learning Open Business Social Analytics. Don’t you just love it?
Luis Suarez
AUGUST 27, 2013
That’s probably one of the best descriptions of why I have never believed in ghost writing myself either over the course of the last 10 years that I have been blogging already. IBM Innovation Knowledge Management Learning Metablogging Open Business Personal KM Productivity Tools
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
I bet that’s probably the number one single question we all keep bumping into multiple times during the course of the day and, yet, we still haven’t got a clue about what the real future of work might be like in the long run. What’s the future of work?
Luis Suarez
AUGUST 18, 2016
Or perhaps jot down something that you would want to come back to over the course of time as you mature that idea further along. Oh, sorry to say this as well, but there aren’t any best practices on knowledge Web work, so you won’t be reading about any of them over here either, I am afraid!
Luis Suarez
FEBRUARY 8, 2014
In a now more than ever hyperconnected, networked and complex systems driven working environment I pretty soon came to the conclusion, as I went solo and independent, that my odds to make a bigger difference out there would have been more notorious by being part of a network of rather talented, passionate, engaged, inspiring and rather thought-provoking knowledge (Web) workers, with whom, if anything, you sense you aren’t anymore the smartest person in the room, the network is.
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