I’ve owned knowledgecog for a few years now, and the site has went through a few radical transformations. For about the last year, I was working on a few ideas for knowledgecog, but nothing really definitive came out of it. So instead of coming up with something completely new, I decided to get back to [...]
Patrick Lambe at Green Chameleon’s got an interesting post about the history, strengths and weaknesses of the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom (DIKM) hierarchy. Overall, the post provides an insightful critique of DIKM as a mental model for how knowledge management programs or services are constructed and offered. I’ve always found the transformational nature (data turns into information, which [...]
Patrick Lambe over at Green Chameleon is having a rather novel competition (novel for the world of knowledge management at least, I think): he’s having a competition to see who can create informative, inspiring, creative and even funny videos about knowledge management. The video has to be your own work and publicly available for people [...]
If you work in knowledge management (or in a KM-like area), you know that on many projects, things go wrong — and it’s often difficult to pinpoint the exact moment where the train left the tracks. So I thought I would put together (based on my own experiences and many, many conversations with colleagues from [...]
I’ve been following Luis Suarez’s mission to live in a world without email with interest pretty much since it started. And while I agree with Luis that email will not die any time soon, I do think Luis’ email journey raises some interesting questions (many of which Luis has noted in blog posts throughout that [...]
I just came across an interesting piece over at Inside Knowledge that argues that possessing competence is actually more important than the “mere acquisition, development, storage, usage, ownership and protection of concepts and facts”. Competence, in this argument, extends beyond just knowing something — it’s more about the practical and useful application of knowledge. The [...]
An updated listing of 65 notable knowledge management sites and blogs compiled by Lucas McDonnell.
With the current downturn in the economy, many companies are starting to feel a little less secure about their market positioning than they were a year ago. And understandably so — extra cash is becoming tough to come by in almost any company. We’ve seen banks fail outright, and we’ve seen many companies trying desperately [...]
If you’re a knowledge management professional (that is, somebody who thinks about knowledge management more than they probably should), you’ve probably encountered the formal-versus-informal debate in some capacity. Much of the time, as knowledge management folks, we try to come up with processes — processes for how people work, processes for how organizations make decisions, [...]
The Centre for International Competitiveness recently released the 2008 World Knowledge Competitiveness Index (available for free download here), which shows North America beginning to lag in knowledge dominance, with Europe and Asia picking up the slack. The shift in knowledge dominance has seen old guard Western centres (like New York, Washington and London — London [...]
