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Category Archives: Opinion
Greatly Exaggerated
There is a lot of silly talk about the ‘death’ of various elements of social...
Network Boneheads
In 1974 half the incoming freshmen at UC Berkeley flunked a basic English composition test....
Apollo 8 or When Sally Met Networks
A network orientation to business is an enormous paradigm shift. Mastery of business ecosystems though...
Social Business
Too often people add subjective meaning to ‘social.’ Social does not mean wind chimes and...
PPACA Redux
Yesterday Colabria Action Research offered a few principles concerning the failure of the PPACA (ObamaCare)...
PPACA
It should come as no surprise that the PPACA IT subsystems aka ‘ObamaCare’ are challenged....
Enterprise Tribes
A close and respected mid-Atlantic region colleague, concerned about political machinations, mass shootings and government...
Knowledge Inventories
The dubious notion of ‘knowledge inventories’ has somehow crept back from the dead. It happens...
Enterprise Code Words
In the popular, five-season, 1960s television comedy Get Smart, the notoriously unreliable ‘Cone of Silence’...
Primum Non Nocere
When does knowledge management (KM) happy talk become crazy talk? Knowledge management too often approaches...
Robin Hanson AI Debate
Those fortunate to have participated in past Colabria Action Research events over the years know...
The Deadly Pronoun
Don’t use the pronoun I. Using the pronoun I indicates a person is self-absorbed, arrogant,...
Open Leadership
It is surprising how little most leaders, managers and know about the networks they inhabit....
Social Network Websites
Most Social Network Websites will fail. Some attempt to call themselves social network services (SNS)....
Narcissus Loves Facebook
Often the narcissism of social technology can be a great nuisance. The everyday minutiae of...
Managerialism
Managerialism is the belief and practice that organizations have more similarities than differences. Managerialism holds...
Enterprise Educrats
It is a relief that enterprise educrats are finally realizing and accepting that learning is...
Technology Zombies
In an excellent 2004 essay titled, “Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die,” author Eric Scigliano...
The Production and Distribution of Knowledge
It is often amusing to hear knowledge management (KM) speakers, consultants and so-called thought leaders...