All Life Is Problem Solving

A few days back Neil Olonoff was kind enough to send me a note on Linkedin alerting me to a webinar presentation he had given to members of the Federal Knowledge Management Working Group. Neil says: “It has resulted in an amazing amount of new energy and action in this group. Our Initiative to implement […]

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Another Political Blog, I’m afraid. These may subside after awhile. But right now the dynamics of American Politics are awfully interesting, and I do think that this piece has some connection with problem solving and KM. Once again, Dick Cheney has disturbed the peace. In a transparent attempt to “salt the mine,” he has delivered […]

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(Co-Authored with Steven A. Cavaleri) In organizations, there is a continuing tension and trade-off of effort and resources between routine and adaptive behavior. Some few organizations, like Toyota, have been able to break through the trade-off between these divergent needs, to perform well at both, and to achieve sustainable effectiveness. But ineffective companies are in […]

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Interesting discussion going on at the actkm group. A few days ago, Cory Banks proposed collaboration on a KM Body of Knowledge (BOK). Last night (eastern US time), and yesterday, the discussion intensified about what was involved in creating such a BOK, and, of course about what a Body of Knowledge is. For the ongoing […]

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This post completes my analysis of Ray Sims’s presentation to the Boston KM Forum on April 9, 2008. Ray envisions three scenarios to relate Web 2.0 and KM. The first of these states that “Web 2.0 is ideally situated to support Personal Knowledge Management / Personal Learning Environment (PKM/ PLE).” Ray argues for that by […]

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Richard Vines and I have just released a paper entitled “Interoperability and the Exchange of Humanly Usable Digital Content Across a Global Economy.” The paper has been published at both an Australian and a US web site. It discusses how to achieve interoperability in XML dialects, i.e. how to transform or translate XML-based digital content […]

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This discussion of John Tropea’s two blog entries of March 17th and 18th 2008, has turned into a series within a series. I guess that’s a measure of what happens in this blog medium. That is, if you feel like saying more about something, there’s always another blog tomorrow. No one can tell you that […]

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This entry continues the discussion of John Tropea’s “Knowledge Management as an Ecosystem.” In Part Twelve, I reviewed and critiqued a portion of the presentation up through the discussion of “the new KM.” Here, I’ll focus on John’s treatment of “the nature of knowledge” and in my next blog I’ll discuss his characterization of KM […]

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On March 17 and 18th John Tropea, one of the most active bloggers on KM 2.0 and social computing issues made two very interesting contributions to discussion of this issue. On March 17, in a blog entitled “Why KM 1.0 Failed in a Nutshell,” John put his finger on a point very essential to this […]

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Over the past years, I’ve spent many enjoyable Saturday afternoons participating in Washington, DC’s Cafe Philo group (a face-to-face public philosophy group), and have occasionally participated in its list serv. Over the past couple of days a friend responded to my support of the statement “No statement can be justified,” by asking whether I was: […]

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