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October 3, 2006
After a morning on battle field knowledge systems I returned to my flat to discover that Blue Peter (an institution in any British Childhood) had interviewed Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister. He had compared his official residence 10 Downing Street to the Tardis in Dr Who. When I was growing up Dr Who sent […]
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October 2, 2006
A google search on the phrase culture and innovation reveals 50 million hits. The first page on my browser after this search seems to be nothing but consultants offering to create an innovation culture in your organisation using a recipe or template. Type in culture and you get 770 million hits. A quick calculation makes […]
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October 1, 2006
Today’s Observer has a lead article with a very scary message. I quote:. THE TRUE scale of Britain’s hospital superbug problems emerged yesterday as a leading hospital trust admitted that a ‘hypervirulent’ infection had claimed the lives of at least 49 patients – and possibly as many as 78 people – in the space of […]
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September 30, 2006
I have recorded below a list serve conversation about the knowledge economy for those who are interested. In it I have argued against idealistic approaches to forecasting and talking about the future and argued instead for multiple small safe-fail experiments. Its not a complete document, but it has some basic thinking. THE ORIGINAL QUESTION ==================================== […]
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September 30, 2006
Verna Allee responded to my request for help with some interesting reflections on high abstraction languages. She specifically raised examples from Meg Wheatley and the Dillema Theory of Charles Hampden-Turner. My response covers issues on archetypes and high abstraction language,and some of my concerns at therapy based approaches to organisational studies and the way in […]
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September 29, 2006
My thanks to Paolina via the ACT KM Forum for bringing my attention to this article. Apparently the IQ loss arising from addiction to email and text messaging is over double that arising from using cannabis. It inspired me to come up with a list of reasons for managers to restrict email use: You will […]
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September 28, 2006
Yes I did say Turbine, not Turbot. This is a cool idea: in three years it might be commercially viable to have a Gas Turbine on a chip. Anything to reduce the number of cables I carry around. Mind you, if people are worried about batteries overheating, think of the consequences of taking a gas […]
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September 27, 2006
The latest from Gaping Void brought back some harsh memories from my youth. Although we lived in North Wales when I was young, we still regarded Cardiff in the south as our home. Every holiday we went back there to sleep on floors with cousins and perform honour visits to aunts. We spent days in […]
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September 26, 2006
If you look at most companies and government agencies (and nearly all management textbooks) they assume that a study of the past will enable them to set targets or create processes that will either prevent the repetition of past failure, or produce some designed and ideal future state. Now for highly structured and stable environments […]
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