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...
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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...
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...
KM Love
A fundamental cultural difference of East/West KM is the principle of love and nurturing (East) versus metrics and measurement (West). Sadly, Western thinking, for the most part, equates ‘love’ with eroticism. Immature, sniggering dilettantes dismiss...
The Streetlight Effect
Why do some enterprise social media and online groups succeed when so many others fail? How do different patterns of enterprise collaboration and populations of users differ from one another? How do contribution vary? How...
Ikujiro Nonaka
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business) is the largest b-school in Europe. It was the venue for a lecture by colleague Ikujiro Nonaka. Colabria Action Research was in Vienna conducting the European Collective...
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...
Managerialism
Managerialism is the belief and practice that organizations have more similarities than differences. Managerialism holds the performance of all organizations can be optimized by the application of generic management skills and theory. Many enterprises and...