August 25, 2007 – 6:29 pm
In case you don’t subscribe to actKM, here’s some great thoughts posted there in recent days by Cory Banks. He gave them to a non-KM person as his top 10 tips for KM strategy in an organisation. I think they’re incredibly useful generally for KM and any activity that’s likely to require cultural and organisational [...]
Here at thoughtglue, we’re strong believers in the value of using social computing tools as a way to enhance the sharing of knowledge and to boost the corporate value of knowledge management activities.
We often get asked to define just what social computing is. It’s a hard thing to do, but this video from the [...]
The “Ask the Experts” column in the latest (May 2007) issue of the Australian Institute of Management magazine Management Today contains a reader question as follows:
I’ve got some very knowledgeable people working under me, and frankly, it’s hard managing them.
I don’t know about you, but this strikes me as the wrong question to ask. [...]
Clive Thompson recently published an article entitled The See-through CEO, where he discusses the notion of radical transparency. For those of you unfamiliar with the notion, it’s an extremely empowering way of running your business completely in the open. From the Wikipedia definition:
Radical transparency is a management method where nearly all decision making [...]
Over at his ZDNet blog, Web 2.0 guru Dion Hinchcliffe has written an excellent article on the use of social computing tools as a catalyst for change in business. He examines in reasonable detail (and links off to deeper content) several aspects of the way in which these tools can enhance productivity and collaboration, [...]
Over at acidlabs, I’ve been having a conversation about the nature of knowledge work - particularly how it’s not about recordkeeping and how the introduction of social computing tools can provide an excellent boost to knowledge worker capability. I’m deeply on the Enterprise 2.0 bandwagon. This is all, of course, a story for [...]
Wouldn’t it be great if every time a knowledge worker and their manager talked about anything, both of them had a complete understanding of each other’s point-of-view?
What this is all about is finding common ground - that happy place where both worker and manager agree and are comfortable conversing. Over at Flying Solo, Kath O’Sullivan [...]
The job of the knowledge worker as evangelist for change in practices is a relatively common one. Often, it involves a fight you’re not necessarily equipped for. Getting management to understand that the tools and access to external sources of information that you need are beyond the scope of what is considered “normal” [...]
Only related to knowledge work in the most tenuous way, but here’s a great example of what can happen (fictional, of course) when a team collaborates well.
Of course, we all know, collaboration is a key tenet of the Knowledge Worker 2.0.
Via Luis Suarez.
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