Last week, at the SharePoint conference (and also the CEO Summit), Microsoft announced a new technology – Knowledge Network (KM) for Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 (MOSS). What follows is an overview based on the session I attended (the presenter clearly stated we could blog at will ) with some personal comments added in. I have [...]
…is an oxymoron. You can’t have knowledge without people or, to put it another way, why would you want knowledge without people? Can you imagine an organisation that contains no people? That doesn’t sell anything to anyone, or buy anything from anyone, or do anything for anyone? What will we all be doing? Wondering around [...]
Knowledge Management guru Tom Davenport (author of Working Knowledge)has a post over on his blog describing a conversation with a journalist who asked: “Was Drucker wrong?” when he stated that ‘making knowledge work productive is the greatest economic challenge of this century’”. The comment has led to a discussion about why companies don’t do more [...]
We interpret and act on the same information differently, depending on the context. This is the challenge we face when trying to record knowledge in written format for re-use – writing it down makes it static and knowledge is never static. Take the following simple and effective example, provided by Nick Stodin: Take a bunch [...]
An article well worth reading (courtesy of appearing on http://tech.memorandum just now): Google: Ten Golden Rules. Describes Google’s approach to managing knowledge workers.
