Beyond knowledge management to better management
There are days when you all really want is to inhabit an alternate reality. For many, the easiest way to approximate this experience is by engaging in a little counterfactual thinking. Wikipedia tells us that Counterfactual thinking is a term of psychology that describes the tendency people have to imagine alternatives to reality. Humans are... Continue Reading →
A blog post entitled 10 Ways to Be Productive During Downtime on a Job prompted an incredulous chuckle from me, along with the following question: "Who has downtime on their job?" Call me misguided, but I was under the impression that the last few years of workforce "right sizing" had left everyone else with so... Continue Reading →
Good looking and ubiquitous. Who am I talking about? The Old Spice guy, of course! While I doubt that I'm in their target market, even I couldn't resist watching some of the videos that Old Spice posted on YouTube. [If you've been in a cave or off the grid this week, you may not have... Continue Reading →
An Enterprise 2.0 project is sufficiently different from a traditional knowledge management or IT project that it can be a little disconcerting at first. Some experts recommend what seems like a 1960s free love approach -- anything goes and, by the way, I'm ok and you're ok. At the other extreme are the traditionalists who... Continue Reading →
My friends were so worried about me that they rushed over to check that I hadn't lost my marbles. In fairness, their response could be considered reasonable given that I had just declared to a group of law firm knowledge management specialists that much of what we collectively were doing at that time shouldn't be... Continue Reading →
Lawyers in most firms are given a lot of freedom to decide how to manage their own knowledge. In fact, it's a rare law firm that can demand that its lawyers handle their knowledge in a particular way. For many, the battle began and ended with the document management system. At this point, most firms... Continue Reading →
One of the banes of modern existence is the need to create (and remember) passwords for all the computer programs we use. Because this poses a significant challenge, many folks just use one or two basic passwords. While simplicity is often a virtue in life, this is one area where it pays to be complicated.... Continue Reading →
What's going on with SharePoint? Klint Finley, writing for ReadWriteWeb, reports what seem to be some counter-intuitive survey results: A survey by AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) found that although Microsoft SharePoint is being rapidly adopted by the enterprise, at least half of the enterprises polled that are implementing the platform don't have... Continue Reading →
Above and Beyond KM 