Beyond knowledge management to better management
We were enjoying a leisurely lunch with some retired friends when the conversation turned to the indignities of aging. The older folks around the table complained about how hard it was now to remember the things that they had in their younger days retrieved effortlessly. One proudly spoke of the many poems he had memorized... Continue Reading →
A lack of vision has tripped up presidents and business leaders. President George H.W. Bush famously dismissed "that vision thing" as something not worth investing in. As he soon discovered, however, the electorate did not agree with him. His official biography on the US Senate website contains the following sad commentary: Bush also suffered from... Continue Reading →
What's the purpose of your organization? (No, that's not a trick question.) Deb Lavoy and her colleagues at OpenText believe that answering that question is the first critical step every organization must take. Putting their money where their mouth is, OpenText hosted on July 11 the first of what promises to be a thought-provoking series of... Continue Reading →
Greta Garbo would have hated Google+. To be honest, she probably would have hated Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and MySpace as well. However, after spending just a short while on Google+, I can see that it would really have given her hives. For those of you who actually have been on vacation these last few days... Continue Reading →
Andy McAfee hosts this discussion with Paul Greenberg (The 56 Group), Marcia Conner (Altimeter) and Ted Schadler (Forrester). [These are my notes from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2011 in Boston. 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... Continue Reading →
Rawn Shah (Business Transformation Consultant, IBM) and Hardik Dave (Senior Business Analyst, IBM) talk about how to create a strategy to collect the metrics that are best for your social business implementation. [These are my notes from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2011 in Boston. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible after the end... Continue Reading →
Debra Lavoy (Director, Product Marketing, Digital and Social Media, OpenText) and Tyler Knowlton (Chief Strategist on Digital Innovation for the Chief Trade Commissioner, Dept of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Government of Canada) discuss how critical meaning is for engagement. They go so far as to say we either need to find purpose or perish.... Continue Reading →
Bertie Sandie (Electronic Arts) says that the biggest challenge for Enterprise 2.0 is creating and maintaining a culture of collaboration. He asks is we have a roadmap for creating a culture of collaboration. [These are my notes from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2011 in Boston. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible after the... Continue Reading →
Ross Mayfield (Socialtext and SlideShare) talks about how social software is more about evolution than revolution. [These are my notes from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2011 in Boston. 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... Continue Reading →
Sarah Roberts discusses why your employees will be running your company in five years. (Although she admits that in many ways employees are already running your company now.) [These are my notes from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2011 in Boston. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible after the end of a session, they... Continue Reading →
Above and Beyond KM 