All Life Is Problem Solving

This is my second blog entry commenting on Dave Snowden’s “Wave-particle duality” piece. My first reply addressed the strawman, knowledge as thing and flow, and paradox issues. This one will address the other six issues he raised. Once again, they are: 1. “If you think in categories, then the world is presented in categories or […]

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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, […]

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Keelman Heaving Coals by Moonlight, (J. W. M. Turner, 1835) Commentary on Dave Pollard’s Blog on Social Networking (continued from Part 2) The Exchange: KM Failure or Conceptual Confusion? The thread running through my commentary in Parts 1 and 2 is the idea that Dave’s blog and his position that KM should be re-invented as […]

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  Owentsia Hunt Ball — Chicago (1904) Commentary on Dave Pollard’s Blog on Social Networking (continued from Part 1) KM, Social Network Management (SNM) and Conceptual Drift You then went on: “Four important unanswered questions: 1. What role can Social Network Enablement and social software play in enhancing individual and organizational learning?” Social network enablement […]

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  Rain, Steam, and Speed (J. W. M. Turner, 1844) In March of 2004, David Pollard served as the Star Moderator in the Association of Knowledge Work’s (AOK) Star Series. Many subjects were covered during the very fruitful exchanges of Dave’s tenure. One of my posts (message 1484) was a commentary on one of Dave’s […]

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The Burning of Parliament (J. W. M. Turner, 1834) I believe that my friend and collaborator Mark McElroy (2001) was the first to point out the inherent conflict in the very popular, but we think mistaken, idea that Knowledge Management should be aligned to organizational strategy and that its purpose should be to mobilize knowledge […]

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In the opening blog of “All Life is Problem Solving,” I gave a general account of how problem solving occurs in living things including humans. But are organizations living systems, or, at least, are they like living systems in their problem solving patterns? How does organizational problem solving happen? In seeking an answer to that […]

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