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I introduced Sharon, newly appointed Director of Learning & Network Development at Cognitive Edge a couple of days ago, then realised that a lot of you don’t know Steve Bealing who is CEO. Gary Klein gave me some good advice a year ago: find someone you trust, who understands the concepts, but who also understands […]
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I didn’t start this, but someone put up an entry for Cynefin. There were objections that it was commercial (with which I agreed), so I went in over the weekend and changed it. It still needs tidying up but its now there or thereabouts. What is needed are citations of use (papers) other than ones […]
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I have been trying to resist the temptation to publish too many cartoons, however this one was irresistible. I think we have have to put the Gaping Void feed onto the web site so you can see the new ones as they emerge …
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The skim leaders list serve has picked up recently on fuzziness in definitions of knowledge management (KM). In a recent exchange Steve Denning, formerly of the World Bank and now Chief Squirrel of organisational story telling had started to argue that a better definition of KM might now be required. He thought this might overcome […]
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One of the sense-making techniques I have used over the years is to take two words which are commonly used as synonyms in common day speech and make them into antonyms. That is to say, I take two words which are used interchangeably, and establish a difference between them. Now english as a language allows […]
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I ran a lecture/workshop for 170 civil servants in Singapore yesterday on the general theme of complexity and networked government as a part of what is wider field of interest for me. We are at the tail end of the World Bank/IMF meeting where Singapore has done a great job of hosting a massive influx […]
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I have been outdone and undone. In response to the post below asking for help, Toby from New Zealand replied on one list serve as follows: Dave I would only consider assisting if I could do so via a survey using hypothetico-deductive pseudo-scientific normative research techniques…preferably online…. Apologies, I couldn’t resist. In reality I have […]
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My thanks to Keith De La Rue over on the ever interesting and eclectic ACT KM Forum for introducing this delightful word as part of a satirical email disclaimer. It includes the wonderful phrase This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential privileged […]
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