This post is about “safe-fail experiments.” The essential idea in safe-fail experiments was expressed well by Dave Snowden in this way: “I can afford them to fail and critically, I plan them so that through that failure I learn more about the terrain through which I wish to travel.”
And again, in another place, he adds:
“One […]
Some Comments on Safe-Fail Experiments
May 30th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Tags: Complexity · Epistemology/Ontology/Value Theory · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management
The President Should Be the One With the Highest Risk Intelligence
May 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Relative Risk Intelligence (RRI) of a President, Prime Minister, or other Chief Executive of a Nation State is the relative ability of the Executive to solve problems and reduce the risk of error in decision models of his/her Government in its various domains of activity or risk compared to other Chief Executives. Domains of […]
Tags: Epistemology/Ontology/Value Theory · KM Software Tools · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management
Storytelling and Problem Solving: Part 1
April 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Lascaux Horse
One of the most popular techniques identified with Knowledge Management is storytelling. Led by Steve Denning, Dave Snowden, Katalina Groh, Larry Prusak, John Seely Brown, and Seth Weaver Kahan, storytelling has become a vibrant movement within KM with a life of its own. Two new books, due out in June 2004, by Denning, […]
Tags: Epistemology/Ontology/Value Theory · KM Techniques · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management