[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] The intransigent knowledge management (KM) Establishment is a failure. They summarily dismiss interactions that propel KM forward. They resent constructive dissension, authentic conversation and incisive observations. Today’s KM professionals are allergic to the future....
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Managing the Situated Present
Managing the Situated Present By Dave Snowden • July 30, 2014 Probably the most important phrase in The Children’s Party Story is the conclusion: We manage the emergence of beneficial coherence within attractors, within boundaries. That simple phrase packs a...
Complexity Digest – August 2014
The scaling of human interactions with city size The size of cities is known to play a fundamental role in social and economic life. Yet, its relation to the structure of the underlying...
Workspace as a Service (WaaS)
Natalie Lambert at Citrix wrote a blog today announcing the concept of a mobile workspace. Chris Wolf at VMware had written a blog talking about the concept of a unified workspace. I agree with both...
Future of Work Farce
Today it is fashionable and popular to examine the so-called ‘future of work.’ Smug dilettantes embark on dubious ‘work redesign’ efforts. Pundits make lofty claims. They charge handsome fees to expose their soaring hubris. They...
Techonomy Bio Update
Please see this Techonomy Bio Update by Alex Cudaback, Director of Programs, Techonomy Media. CONFERENCE VIDEOS & TRANSCRIPTS: The content from Techonomy Bio is now available. Check it out for videos, transcripts, the final agenda,...
Graph Visualization with Linkurious
Monday, July 21, 2014 6:30 PM Graph Visualization with Linkurious ThoughtWorks 315 Montgomery 16th Floor San Francisco, CA Registration Required Sébastien Heymann, CEO of Linkurious, is coming to SF and will be presenting to our...
Complexity Digest June 2014
Good Fences: The Importance of Setting Boundaries for Peaceful Coexistence We consider the conditions of peace and violence among ethnic groups, testing a theory designed to predict the locations of violence and interventions that...
Graph Connect
Graph Databases store data using nodes, edges and properties. They are an elegant and efficient way to create, read, update and delete information. Colabria Action Research forecast graph database will have a major impact...
Supernetworks
The human understanding and relationship with networks is advancing at a breathtaking pace. The progression is so fast we are nearing The Network Singularity: an explosion of extraordinary network comprehension delivering an exceptionally new understanding...
Conversation is Conversation
Thanks to everyone for supporting your Colabria Action Research Networks. Most people are aware that the principal modality of Colabria is authentic conversation. Still, after so many years, many people ask for Colabria content to be...
Overloaded 2014
Overloaded 2014 is a one day gathering of thought leaders and researchers solving information overload. Overloaded 2014 is Saturday, June 7, 2014 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (PDT) in San Francisco, California, USA. Overloaded...
21st Century KM
Knowledge Management (KM) is experiencing a major 21st Century pivot. Coined in Silicon Valley, the term business pivot is a structured course correction. It’s the adoption of fundamentally new principles and hypotheses concerning business offerings,...
Hubris 101
A major unintended consequence of the Internet is that everyone has the equivalent of a megaphone. Of course the benefits of an open Internet and free speech are incalculable. Still, many feel it also provides...
Complexity Digest May 2014
Complexity Digest May 2014 SuperSpreaders Nobody has figured out how to spot the most influential spreaders of information in a real-world network. Now that looks set to change with important implications, not least for the...
Global Forum 2014
The 23rd Global Forum – Shaping the Future 2014 is Monday & Tuesday, the 17th & 18th of November 2014, in Geneva, Switzerland. The Global Forum is an independent, high-profile, international, non-for-profit think-tank dedicated to...
Techonomy BIO
“UCLA has one department of computer science and 25 biology departments. Why? Biologists are smarter.” –Alan Kay Sign up now for Techonomy BIO on June 17th at The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California....
Déjà Vu
There are a lot of 20th Century pundits trying to revive stale, Industrial Era concepts of work. They are making lofty claims and calling it, ‘The Future of Work.’ They are focused on ‘new transformative...
Crowd Science
Recently there was a discussion on the scientific integrity and merits of Wikipedia. It concerned the not-so-favorable Wikipedia entry for neurolinguistic programming (NLP). The discussion also revealed important principles of collective intelligence and crowd science....
In Conversation with David Snowden
In Conversation with David Snowden Please join Colabria for a special reception and conversation with David Snowden on May 6th 2014 at 6PM in downtown San Francisco. Dave is a well-known authority, leader and researcher in...
Maximize Optimal
As the headlong flight to the knowledge-based, network economy accelerates, common word usage changes. Some rise in meaning and importance; others become harmful and destructive. Among the most important are optimize versus maximize. Maximal systems,...
Complexity Digest April 2014 Part Two
Complexity Archive April 2014 The infection tree of global epidemics The spreading of transmissible infectious diseases is inevitably entangled with the dynamics of human population. Humans are the carrier of the pathogen, and the large-scale...
Collective Intelligence 2014
Collective Intelligence 2014 MIT, Cambridge, MAJune 10-12, 2014 This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of fields relevant to understanding and designing collective intelligence of many types. Topics of interest...
Ideation
Ideation (idea generation) is the knowledge management (KM) activity of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas. The ideation cycle is innovation, through design, to development and full actualization. Tomorrow’s economy depends more and more on perpetual...
Innovation and Invention
Among the most misused business terms are innovation and invention. Paradoxically, there are also widely accepted meanings of these terms. Still, misuse is pervasive here in Silicon Valley and for business everywhere. The contemporary, definitive...