MIT validates the obvious: conversation is good business. Authentic conversation is a key modality of The Social Enterprise and your Colabria Action Research Networks. In the BofA call center: “Individuals who talked to more...
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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...
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...
East Meets West KM
Many great management innovations over the last 40 years have originated in Japan. Total Quality (TQM), PDCA, Toyota Production System (TPS), Lean, and so on, are good examples. These innovations are the genesis and ancestors...
Consumerization
A key dimension of social business is the social reorientation of work, wealth creation and prosperity. This has been a top theme of Colabria Action Research. The major enterprise revolution is a subtext of the...
Nonaka @ Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Part II)
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business) is the largest b-school in Europe. It was the venue for a lecture by Ikujiro Nonaka. The Wall Street Journal Ranks Professor Ikujiro Nonaka as One of...
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...
GraphConnect
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 forecasts graph database will have a major impact on...
Primum Non Nocere
When does knowledge management (KM) happy talk become crazy talk? Knowledge management too often approaches the wrong organizational issues. Yet, the practitioners fail to acknowledge their grave problems. Frequently, offenders are those that advocate ‘knowledge...
Network Effect
There has been some encouraging blog chatter recently linking process engineering and the law of decreasing returns to scale for business. Business has discovered their near clinical preoccupation with process and malignant overuse of BRP...
Teams
Most business organizations consist of hierarchy and teams. Hierarchy is the simple hub and spoke network conventionally known as the organizational chart. Teams are a simplistic assembly of roles intended to meet a specific objective....
Knowledge-based Organizations
Work in knowledge-based organizations is social. Activities include collaboration and sharing. Work products are improvisational. Success requires judgment and freedom to act. There is a heavy reliance on others. Trust is key. Knowledge creation...
Open Leadership
It is surprising how little most leaders, managers and know about the networks they inhabit. The overbearing focus on management, processes and managerialism is harmful. The evolution to networks and open leadership is essential. Of...
Structural Wholes
Recently on a Network Leadership blog, an authority remarked, “The number one task of network leaders is to help others become network leaders.” Of course, this principle is important, desirable, but, not ‘number one.’ Sidebar:...
Popular Management Techniques
Popular management fads come and go. Most are simply rhetorical hyperbole. Many are harmful; scarce few are useful (EBITDA, CAGR, DCF). Here is a partial list of management methods from the Website 12Manage. How many...
Management Science
At the Management Science site ‘12manage’ they ask you to select your Management Interest Group. Some are listed below. Of course, everyone uses CAGR, EBITDA, and P/E Ratio every day. How many others do you know?...
Failed KM
[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....
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,...
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...