John Bordeaux leads the KM working group for the Project on National Security Reform. He recently broadcast an appeal for advice to the ActKM list serve. Now I need to declare two interests here. Firstly I some involvement in the project, and secondly what ideas I have on the subject are incorporated into SenseMaker™ in […]
One of the key aspects of managing a complex system is the switch from fail-safe design to safe-fail experimentation. The nature of a complex system means that we cannot know in advance what will happen, so we cant design for a desired outcome. Instead parallel and possible contradictory experiments allow us to test the evolutionary […]
This blog was stimulated by two things: (i) A useful post from Doc Searls on advertising in the context of Microsoft and Yahoo, and (ii) a barb in an otherwise friendly series of tweets (I will leave the author anonymous) which said No offence, but getting the feeling you can take the people out of […]
Many years ago when I spent some days with Thames Water field staff one of the water quality inspectors, learning that I was an occasional (and lackadaisical) ornithologist took me up to the top of the Chiltern Escarpment. We laid on our backs and waited, and a few minutes later a pair of red kites […]
I just returned from a performance of Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy in the Young Vic. It was his first opera composed over forty years ago, before the latter opera’s of Brittain with whom he overlaps. I think that Bertwistle, Maxwell and Adams in different ways are the three greats of modern opera, and comparable with […]
How about this then! I do believe that there is a “correct” interpretation of Hamlet, and also that we can select among interpretations and find the interpretation that is closer to the truth than its competitors. Of course, however, even if we someday find the “correct” interpretation, we have no way of knowing that we […]
One of the reasons that we moved to Lockeridge some 15 years ago is its proximity to Avebury. For those who don’t know the area, many of us think it far more interesting that the more popular Stonehenge. It’s a world heritage site and there are a mass of wonderful sites in the area from […]
Anyone know what has happened to Boje’s planned book Story Telling Organization? It was due out from Sage last June and I pre-ordered it from Amazon. I got the normal this book is delayed emails, then a this book is no longer available. Checking the Sage site this morning there is no mention of it […]
I was in a taxi from Belfast International AIrport this morning and as we came in we passed a police station – no longer surrounded by wire fences and watch towers. I suggested that at least one (see picture) should be preserved as a heritage site so that we could all remember how bad things […]
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