All Life Is Problem Solving

(Co-Authored with Steven A. Cavaleri) This post is the third discussing the question of enhancing processes and activities we use to develop new ideas. Fourth, current organizational knowledge bases don’t distinguish knowledge from information, and given the importance of previous cultural knowledge for creating new ideas, this is a very big problem for present technology. […]

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(Co-Authored with Steven A. Cavaleri) This post is the second discussing the question of enhancing processes and activities we use to develop new ideas. Second, introduce openness to new ideas as a policy and get the organization to commit to it. This is easy to say, but because “openness” is not always easy to see […]

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This post continues the discussion begun in Part Three of this series with an analysis of problems with the underlying conceptual model of the presentation on the Federal KM Initiative. Here’s a graphic of that model as I’ve reconstructed it from the text of the presentation. Reconstruction of Neil Olonoff’s Conceptual Model Let’s work backwards […]

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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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(Co-Authored with Steven A. Cavaleri) In his new book, Chasing the Rabbit, Steven Spear distinguishes highly adaptive organizations from others, terms them “rabbit organizations,” and, alternatively, “high-velocity organizations,” and develops a framework for identifying them. According to Spear, such organizations have four capabilities: 1) “Specifying Design to Capture Existing Knowledge and Building In Tests to […]

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(Co-Authored with Steven A. Cavaleri) Here are four types of PSPs that may be found or approximated in organizations. The four are not a mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive classification of PSPs, but a categorization of types that one can use to begin to understand and explore the world of PSPs, or if you like, […]

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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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In a noted blog posted on September 28, 2008, Venkatesh Rao made a number of claims about the relationship between the KM and social media movements. I’ll end this examination of the relationships between KM and the 2.0 cluster by using aspects of my previous analysis to examine his primary claims about the existence of […]

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1. KM and Enterprise 2.0: As defined by McAfee, E2.0 synthesizes Web 2.0, social software, and social media. Social Software tools focused on Web 2.0 technology that can be useful inside the organizational firewall, emergence and self-organization, egalitarianism in software applications, these draw the primary features of all three components into E2.0. We’ve already seen […]

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