All Life Is Problem Solving

Dave Snowden, whose views I blog about from time-to-time, yesterday offered “a certification rant,” in which he said: “Just to make it clear, I have no objection to people selling training courses in KM. I have no objection to people developing specific approaches and certifying or accrediting people to practice those techniques, that’s something we […]

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Every once in awhile the issue of the relationship between Organizational Learning (OL) and KM comes up as an issue. It happened a couple of weeks ago in the actkm group. Here’s my take on the issue. First, a lot of what one thinks about the relationship depends on how one views OL and KM. […]

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Even though my series on National Governmental Knowledge Management is finished. I’ll be filing additional individual blogs on the subject from time-to-time. The purpose of this entry is to make available a recent presentation of mine based primarily on Parts One and Two in the series. The presentation, originally given to The George Washington University […]

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In a Thought Leader piece in the February 2009 issue of Inside Knowledge, Neil Olonoff made a case for the importance of recognizing that all our knowledge is uncertain, that we in Knowledge Management should have no hesitation in admitting uncertainty, and since we “live in a world of uncertainty, we should use that truth […]

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(Co-Authored with Steven A. Cavaleri) In this series, we developed the ideas of the Problem Solving Pattern (PSP) and Problem Solving Pattern Management. We pointed out how vital performing PSP patterns well is to organizational adaptation, distinguished the problem solving pattern from the Operational Pattern (OP) (Part One), defined four types of problem solving patterns, […]

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Previously, I’ve written about the great cost of the filibuster to the American body politic, and specifically criticized it as one of the primary barriers to successful adaptation to the various challenges faced by American Society. Norman Ornstein in an article entitled “Our Broken Senate” covers the evolution of immobilist Senate practices including the filibuster […]

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Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) blogged at the Huffington Post on his Credit Card Reform Bill intended to: “stop abusive and deceptive credit card practices once and for all.” If it passes, the Bill would, among other things, do the following: — End universal default (the practice of using information unrelated to payment performance in connection […]

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I don’t think this one is an April Fool’s joke. This morning Kirk Nielsen reports on a fainting spell that resulted in his missing out on finalizing a date with “a fantastic woman,” and also in medical charges exceeding $10,000 for relatively minor treatment. He ends his sad lament on current medical reality in the […]

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