Diffusion of Innovation: How Change Occurs

The speaker is Professor Bill Henderson is at the Indiana University School of Law. [These are my notes from a private global meeting of large law firm knowledge management personnel.] The Diffusion of Innovation field was invented by Everett Rogers. He wrote his first book in 1962, examining why farmers were not adopting the latest... Continue Reading →

Survival in a Data Security Obsessed World

Knowledge management encourages transparency and information sharing. But data security concerns are driving more organizations to lock down their data so that is "safe." In the process, security measures can make it harder to share information. In this data security obsessed world, how can knowledge management survive? [These are my notes from a private international... Continue Reading →

Broadli: KM Theory in Action

 In some law firm knowledge management circles it is fashionable to disdain theory in favor practical realities. To be honest, there was a time in my career when I chose to ignore theory and focused instead on learning the lessons provided by the school of hard knocks. The problem was that while those lessons were... Continue Reading →

Impact of KM on Old and New Business Models #LexMundi

Speakers: Michael Roster (former managing partner of Lex Mundi member firm Morrison & Foerster's Los Angeles office, former general counsel of Stanford University, Stanford Medical Center, and Golden West Financial Corporation) and Bill Turner (CKO at Womble Carlyle). [These are my notes from the 2013 Lex Mundi Knowledge Management Roundtable. Since I'm publishing them as... Continue Reading →

KMWorld 2013 Roundup #KMWorld

The KMWorld knowledge management conference is an annual deep dive into all things KM. And for people with wide interests and lots of stamina, there are parallel conferences focused on enterprise search, SharePoint and taxonomy. The reality is that these conferences offer far more sessions than any single person can take in during the course... Continue Reading →

10 Things KMers Can Learn From Angry Birds #KMWorld

Speaker: Daniel W. Rasmus, Owner/Principal Analyst, danielwrasmus.com & Author, Listening to the Future and Management by Design. For a previous incarnation of this closing keynote, see 10 Lessons from Angry Birds That Can Make You a Better CIO. [These are my notes from the KMWorld 2013 Conference. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible after the end of a session, they... Continue Reading →

Building Smarter Networks #KMWorld

Speaker: Jeff Stemke, President, Stemke Consulting Group, formerly at Chevron [These are my notes from the KMWorld 2013 Conference. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible after the end of a session, they may contain the occasional typographical or grammatical error. Please excuse those. To the extent I've made any editorial comments, I've shown those in brackets.]... Continue Reading →

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