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Dave Snowden
We have been asked by ASKcharity which seeks to help journalists communicate which charities. Their web site allows a journalist to send one email request to hundreds of charities to seek out a case study. Its a free service and given that Richard Sambrook has agreed to pass on the reference it must OK! We […]
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For those of you who do not check comments on past blogs, I thought I should point out that Hubert has responded to my post Hubert’s error. He argues that blogs are primarily content based and work in small groups, but are not an enterprise tool. He offers no elaboration on the top down/bottom up […]
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My good friend and fellow gold miner (in joke, ignore it if you do not get it immediately) has just published his book on national security and intelligence in an uncertain age. It includes the story of our Singapore project. Those who know Tom, are familiar with his wealth of experience in this field. I […]
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This beautiful photograph is from Nasa’s Galileo spacecraft. It is Io, a moon of Jupiter and the blue emission at the top is a sulfurous eruption from a caldera known as Pillab Petera. It is obviously a early valentine’s day celebration and sign of intelligent life elsewhere in our solar system. OK you have to […]
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I learnt last night of the death of Tom Armour at home in Reston with his family this Sunday. Last June he had an operation for a cancerous brain tumor and we all thought he had recovered, but with great regret this was not the case. There will be a military funeral at Arlington and […]
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Thanks to Michael Cheveldave for finding a new source to view this, and also providing data of where you can buy it and other material. I will amend my earlier entry to reference this.
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I started this week in Dallas with a presentation on Knowledge Management. I promised various people access to material I referenced and plan to use this blog to summarise what I said with links to said material. If it works and is generally useful I plan to do the same after other events, if only […]
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Just a reminder that accreditation programmes are coming up in Brisbane (29-30 Jan), Singapore (1-3 Feb) and Calgary (6-8 Feb). Participation in the programme allows you to join the community of practitioners and to have privileged access to the software. I am teaching on all of them, but combining in each case with local practitioners […]
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Next, little Megan Lewis-Jones will recite her little poem about where she thinks the WRU are going wrong. Some months ago I posted a brief tribute to Sir Kyffin Williams, whose writing and painting inspired the naming of the Cynefin framework. He was a painter of great ability; if you don’t know his work then […]
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