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 […]
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 […]
2012 was not a good year for London to win the Olympics. Did no one think to check the Mayan Calender before wasting all that money on the bid? Of course its useful to know that there are 6 years and 88 days to the end of the world. It may be news to many […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 …
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 […]
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 […]
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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