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Why No Impact Modeling?

August 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

I’ve been busier than usual for the past week and will be even busier for another week; so I have to postpone further work on my KM 2.0 series for awhile in favor of some posts that require less effort. This one will pose a question. Why don’t we see much impact modeling in Knowledge […]

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Tags: KM Methodology · KM Techniques · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management

On Cynefin as a Sensemaking Framework: Part One

May 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on On Cynefin as a Sensemaking Framework: Part One

  In earlier posts, I discussed Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework from the viewpoint of systems classification, offered an alternative to it, and then offered some critical comments. I did this because (a) Dave sometimes used the term “system” in describing one or another Cynefin “domain” and (b) a lot of the recent discussion on Cynefin […]

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Tags: Complexity · Epistemology/Ontology/Value Theory · KM Software Tools · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management and Strategy: A Conflict for Caesar

April 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Making · Knowledge Management