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Category Archives: The Social Enterprise
The Network Age
The end of the first decade of the 21st century marked the 50th anniversary of...
Trust
Trust is rising on the enterprise agenda. It’s because traditional, 20th Century levers of command,...
Alignment
So-called ‘alignment’ is among the most hackneyed, overused and specious business terms in use today....
Enterprise KM Metrics
There is a lot of deceptive nonsense about knowledge management (KM) measures and metrics. Let’s face it,...
Victorian Networks?
Someone remarked the other day, “Our problem at work is that we don’t have...
Enterprise SNS
The problems with enterprise social network services (SNS) are pervasive, insidious and costly. (Please don’t...
Greatly Exaggerated
There is a lot of silly talk about the ‘death’ of various elements of social...
Apollo 8 or When Sally Met Networks
A network orientation to business is an enormous paradigm shift. Mastery of business ecosystems though...
Complex Interactions
As the enterprise continues the social reorientation of work and its headlong flight to network...
Autarky
We come across faulty notions of social networks all the time. Two that pop up...
KM Talent Crisis
Knowledge management (KM) has a tradition of enormous challenges. Virtually all of them can...
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...
Network Effect
There has been some encouraging blog chatter recently linking process engineering and the law of...