ConvergenceJackson Pollock The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis In February 2013, Google Flu Trends (GFT) made headlines but not for a reason that Google executives or the creators of the flu...
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KM Australia 2014 Congress
KM Australia 2014 Congress Knowledge Border Crossings 11th Annual Congress The Sebel Surry Hills 22-24 July 2014 Knowledge Management Australia Congress is in its eleventh year and over this period we have seen KM go...
Hierarchy and Megaphones
Hierarchy Organizational Hierarchy is an authoritarian concept where people and groups are ranked one above the other according to status. In hierarchy, one actor, the hierarch, is superior to all of the others in the...
Enterprise Ecology
In the traditional commercial enterprise there are three basic sets of management techniques. They are organizations, assets, and processes. If you work in a modern enterprise it’s very likely you are responsible for one or...
Open SNA Lists
Social Network Analysis (SNA) is the methodical, mathematical and rigorous study of social networks. Below please find links to open SNA lists for — Business SNA SNA Courses You are welcome, encouraged and expected to...
Same Time Same Place
Networks can defeat the tyranny of geography. Unfortunately, there are major unintended consequences. Among the most severe problem is the faulty approach to collaboration, discussion and conversation. People use technology when face-to-face is required. They...
Heutagogy
Sahana Chattopadhyay has thoughtfully modulated the well-known Cynefin Framework for heutagogy or self-determined learning. The current version is below. Self-determined learning and distributed phronesis are essential planks of 21st Century Learning. To refract and anneal...
Museum KM
Why are knowledge management (KM) people determined to treat organizations as museums? How did KM become so corrupt as to focus on the collection and storage of information artifacts? Why has the obsolete 20th Century...
SNS Implementation
There is a gargantuan split in how people approach enterprise pull-through for enterprise social network services (SNS). The problem is naive people, in 2014, are still leading with tools and technology. What’s even worse, despite...
Look Back to Move Forward
The requirements of organizational knowledge management (KM) have changed dramatically. Yet, many in the failing KM Establishment cling to outdated motives, methods, objectives and practices. It is so bad, they are even trying to create...
Social Media & Society Conference
Social Media & Society Conference(#SMSociety14) September 27-28, 2014Toronto, Canada DESCRIPTION We live in an era of “Big Data”. Petabyte and exabyte-size datasets are becoming increasingly common. Much of the data is coming from social...
Biological KM
The shift away from mechanical, informational process thinking towards biological and living systems for knowledge creation, usage and leadership is well underway. However, certain vestiges exists in the moribund knowledge management (KM) community. Many of...
California KM
On behalf of Colabria, please accept your invitation to participate in your next Colabria Cluster – Knowledge Management 2014(KM2014). Your California KM Community is the Colabria Action Research Network representing Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Northern and Southern California. KM2014...
Authentic Conversation
The principal modality of Colabria Clusters is authentic conversation. Unfortunately, many people conflate conversation and discussion. Treating conversation and discussion as synonyms is harmful. It is time to set the record straight: conversation and discussion are...
Crowdfund Graph Analytics for Justice
A crowdfunded project from Stanford aims to use graph technologies to better understand international justice. Please help Crowdfund Graph Analytics for Justice. You can help apply graph analytics to shed light on the way justice works....
KM Inertia
Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to any change in its state of motion including a change in direction. It is among the most important principles of classic physics to describe motion. Organizational...
Death of KM Standards
As predicted some nostalgic application vendors and elements of the decomposing Knowledge Management (KM) Establishment are providing futile life support for KM Standards. Of course the Death of KM Standards is certain and confident. It...
KM and Philosophy
For one reason or another online knowledge management (KM) groups attracts philosophical scholarship. Often it is just academic bloviating. Sometimes it descends into intellectual bullying and trolling. For the most part, KM and philosophy don’t...
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. It’s from the prestigious California Management Review. California Management Review Special Issue on Knowledge and the Firm March...
Knowledge and the Firm
In 1997, before Google and Salesforce.com, and way before Facebook and Twitter, the Haas School of Business, at the University of California, Berkeley, convened the First Annual U.C. Berkeley Forum on Knowledge and the Firm. ...
The New Brainstorming
Research into the practice of brainstorming has confirmed an important and overdue refinement that Colabria Action Research has advocated for years. The finding is that a hybrid model of independent brainstormers works better. Here is...
Waiting for KM Standards
The KM Standards Farce is fast approaching the absurdity of Beckett’s masterpiece. Standards kill KM because KM positively DEPENDS on variation. Diversity and variation are the absolute lifeblood of KM. Authentic KM thrives on originality, network...
Entrepreneurial Finance
“Jackson Square is the new Sand Hill Road,” says Mr. Gretsch, 47, referring to the road in Menlo Park that has long been at the center of technology funding. “I’m surprised by how infrequently...
KM Standards Farce
The purpose of Standards is to introduce and achieve uniformity and predictability in activities. More importantly, standards drive-out variation in industrial, informational and transactional processes. The implementation of standards in industry and commerce became very important...