All Life Is Problem Solving

(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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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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In analyzing relationships among the various memes and the movements and sub-movements associated with them, we have to be clear about which definitions we’re using. The reason for that is not that we like definitions or believe that they identify Aristotelian “essences.” Instead, it’s because we want others to be able to evaluate our conjectures […]

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“America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship . . . . With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey […]

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Today, I’ll continue with definitions I need to clarify relationships among the members what I’ve been calling the “2.0 cluster.” Social Media The least clearly formulated idea in the “2.0 cluster” is “social media.” While the proliferation of definitions and conceptions surrounding this term is not yet as fulsome as with KM itself, the ambiguity […]

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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 post continues my analysis of Ray Sims’s presentation to the Boston KM Forum on April 9, 2008. In approaching “Knowledge Management,” Ray again asks what the term “means to me.” He begins by describing his own research on definitions of KM. His initial effort produced 43 separate definitions which he reported on in his […]

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Back to blogging. The Presidential campaign is now over, a few other commitments are completed, and I’m now free to end my unexpected vacation and continue my KM 2.0 and Knowledge Management series. This entry will continue my discussion of presentations given at The Boston KM Forum on April 9, 2008. Ray Sims offered a […]

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