Beyond knowledge management to better management
Frans Johansson is an innovation expert and author of The Medici Effect. As CEO of The Medici Group, he leads a team which helps clients improve their innovation efforts through an approach they call Intersectional Thinking: Your best chance to innovate is at The Intersection. Here, concepts from diverse disciplines, fields, and cultures collide to... Continue Reading →
We'd like to think that our advanced education protects us from the dangers of irrationality, but for too many of us that is a delusion. The reality is that unless you are keenly aware of how you make decisions, you may well find that your seemingly logical decisions are riddled with unconscious errors. As modern... Continue Reading →
Of course you're special. Your parents have always known it and now the International Legal Technology Association is acknowledging it too. How is ILTA doing that? By recognizing that each of us has a preferred learning style and, therefore, we need different formats and approaches to facilitate our learning. As a a result, the planning... Continue Reading →
The stories are awful, but you'll find it's hard to pull your eyes away the text. In fact, each story seems worse than the one before. After reading them, you can't help but ask yourself: Can anyone really be that dumb? What stories are these? They are reports of the exploits of the recipients of... Continue Reading →
httpv://youtu.be/gH476CxJxfg Today was a good day. Really. I had the pleasure of some productive meetings and a chunk of quiet time to get things done. Best of all, I was delighted to find myself on the receiving end of compliments regarding a recently launched law firm knowledge management resource that I've been working on for... Continue Reading →
Curiosity has landed on Mars! I must admit that I love the fact that NASA called the Mars rover "Curiosity." To me curiosity is more than a danger to cats, it's the driving force for innovation. NASA has made available some wonderful video of the landing. I watched several times the brief clip below of... Continue Reading →
What would you say if someone offered you the opportunity to free up as much as 25% of the work week for more productive purposes? Would you be willing to explore this further or would you discount it out of hand as wishful thinking? What if the source of this claim was the McKinsey Global... Continue Reading →
Science fiction isn't just for futurists. It's today's reality. It used to be that people with wild imaginations wrote improbable stories for a sci-fi audience and then later, perhaps even decades later, those imaginings might become reality. For example, Jules Verne, an astonishingly imaginative author, wrote in the mid-19th century about fantastical things that we... Continue Reading →
We can get so caught up in the basics of making something work that we too often forget to make magic happen. Truth be told, sometimes it can be really hard to get something to work at all. And so we struggle every day with software and hardware that are not intuitive to use. To... Continue Reading →
Larry Cannell is Research Director at Gartner Inc. At Gartner, he writes for information architects and everyone they influence. You can reach him on Twitter: @lcannell. [These are my notes from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2012 in Boston. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible after the end of a session, they may contain... Continue Reading →
Above and Beyond KM 