The principal modality of Colabria Clusters is authentic conversation. Unfortunately, many people conflate conversation and discussion. Treating conversation...
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Crowdfund Graph Analytics for Justice
A crowdfunded project from Stanford aims to use graph technologies to better understand international justice. Please help Crowdfund...
KM Inertia
Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to any change in its state of motion including...
Death of KM Standards
As predicted some nostalgic application vendors and elements of the decomposing Knowledge Management (KM) Establishment are providing...
KM and Philosophy
For one reason or another online knowledge management (KM) groups attracts philosophical scholarship. Often it is just...
Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking – Study, comprehension, application and mastery of interdependence....
Special Issue on Knowledge and the Firm
This is a noteworthy excerpt from the highly influential U.C. Berkeley Forum on Knowledge and the Firm....
Knowledge and the Firm
In 1997, before Google and Salesforce.com, and way before Facebook and Twitter, the Haas School of Business,...
The New Brainstorming
Research into the practice of brainstorming has confirmed an important and overdue refinement that Colabria Action Research...
Waiting for KM Standards
The KM Standards Farce is fast approaching the absurdity of Beckett’s masterpiece. Standards kill KM because KM positively...
Entrepreneurial Finance
“Jackson Square is the new Sand Hill Road,” says Mr. Gretsch, 47, referring to the road...
KM Standards Farce
The purpose of Standards is to introduce and achieve uniformity and predictability in activities. More importantly, standards drive-out...
The Visual Organization
http://www.km2014.com Phil Simon is the author of The Visual Organization: Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for...
Don’t Get SWAM’ed
LinkedIn Groups now offers Site-Wide Automated Moderating (SWAM). SWAM is a draconian moderation method for LinkedIn Groups....
KM and Quantitative Culture
While troubleshooting knowledge management (KM) problems Colabria often encounters the dilemma of KM and Quantitative Culture. People...
KM Fetishes
There is a knowledge management (KM) renaissance underway. KM has long been a troubled discipline. Vendors, dilettantes...
KM Love
A fundamental cultural difference of East/West KM is the principle of love and nurturing (East) versus metrics...