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...
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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 Yet, many in the failing KM Establishment cling to outdated motives, methods, objectives and practices.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...
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 Fetishes
There is a knowledge management (KM) renaissance underway. KM has long been a troubled discipline. Vendors, dilettantes and document jockeys hijacked KM and called it their own. Moribund IT & HR units co-opted KM as...
KM Disappointments
It is disappointing to still hear the near-religious advocacy of process, standards and certification for knowledge management (KM). Ironically, KM people, often charged with change management and innovation, are so inelastic they simply reject contemporary,...
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...
Factor Analysis and Complexity
Business leadership is discovering the enormous advantages of complexity and complexity science. Many difficult or ‘wicked’ problems may only achieve positive outcomes by embracing the principles of complexity. This is a very positive and important...
The Network Age
The end of the first decade of the 21st century marked the 50th anniversary of the Information Age. In 1957 the USA Labor Dept noted the number of white collar or information workers had exceeded...
Codified CoPs Are Harmful
Conventional, online communities of practice (CoP), with the de rigueur ‘best practices’ (?) are often highly counterproductive. Galaxies of codified information hurt productivity, innovation, growth, prosperity and organizational effectiveness (OE). Codified CoPs are harmful. Beware of best practice...
LinkedIn Visualization
There is a new open source offering for LinkedIn Visualization. It is by Craig Tutterow, Doctoral Student, University of Chicago. The advantages are described as follows: 1) it’s open-source and can be improved upon collaboratively...
Transaction-Cost Economics and ESA
The firms of the past were transactional by nature. Ronald Coase’s Transaction-Cost Economics (TCE) was the theory of the firm. Today, the firm is fast evolving to an interaction versus transaction model. This is called the...
Trust
Trust is rising on the enterprise agenda. It’s because traditional, 20th Century levers of command, control and consequence are waning. Social business depends on trust. Last century’s management tools like directives, decrees, orders, edicts, fiat,...
Network Research Centers
There is an explosion of research, offerings, education and interest in social network analysis (SNA). SNA is the study of the patterns and structures of relationships. One leading indicator of the enormous importance of network...
SNA Open Site
There is an explosion of research, offerings, education and interest in social network analysis (SNA). SNA is the study of the patterns and structures of relationships. SNA is important. It informs all human activity. SNA...
Open Innovation
Open Innovation is an essential business network. It is ill-suited to the legacy conventions of management, control and architecture. Innovation is not a function, process or activity. Open Innovation is a complex network. Managers aspire...
Alignment
So-called ‘alignment’ is among the most hackneyed, overused and specious business terms in use today. It is a close second to the king of overused, trite and meaningless business expressions: leverage. Don’t fret, leverage is...
Victorian Networks?
Someone remarked the other day, “Our problem at work is that we don’t have a social network yet.” We call this thinking Victorian Networks since the primitive thinking is akin to Victorian-era medical practices....
Collective Intelligence 2014
Collective Intelligence 2014 MIT, Cambridge, MA June 10-12, 2014 www.collectiveintelligence2014.org 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...