One of the aspects of sense-making we emphasize in all our training programmes is the value of contrast. Since complex systems are inherently unordered, without any underlying repeating structure, their is no absolute baseline or reference. Hence contrasting from differences in the system (I.e. perspective, context, location, etc.) provides an effective means of making sense. […]
I’m bringing this series to an end in a storm-blown cottage in North Wales. All part of training for the Annapurna circuit at the end of March with Daughter. We booked the week to coincide with some work at Bangor and my vision of the week was clearing work early morning and evening with 5-7 […]
So far in this series, I have been focused on knowledge in the context of decisions, both for discovery and by implication purposes. I have always seen Knowledge Management as focused on decision support and innovation and nothing has emerged in the last two decades to change my mind. Nor for that matter my frustration […]
Having set the scene with a general introduction in my first one and a mild polemic in the second I want to move on to the remaining posts in this series to look at formal methods and tools before concluding. That will mean dropping down a level in understanding the knowledge in play and moving […]
It is no coincidence that I am using images from medieval apprenticeships in this series of posts. The apprentice model remains one of the most effective means of knowledge evolution that the human race has devised. Note I say evolution not capture; knowledge in the apprentice model is not transferred intact, it mutates and changes […]
One of the hardy annuals used to justify knowledge management programmes is the problem of the ageing workforce. Equally persistent, to the point of perversion, are the subsequent imposition of solutions based on codification. Nothing wrong with that in the obvious domain of Cynefin and at least a part of the complicated domain but to […]
I’m still in an OD mindset after the last twelve days of posting and there are a few loose ends to tie up. One of the ones I mentioned yesterday is the nature and utility of what I call naturally evolved roles. These are important in both practical and theoretical terms. The former because they […]
It was good to see the strategy workshop picked up by Ian Thorpe in his blog and he beat me to publishing the final overview of the process (see below). Later today I have a keynote to give where I intend to focus on narrative forms of knowing, but more on that tomorrow. For […]
I’m back at KM World in Washington having keynoted at the event for well over a decade now. Once it was virtual and I was represented on stage by a pumpkin, but I’ve learnt my lesson from that and now I turn up! It is now the main KM event worldwide with other events […]
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