I have been absent from the blogosphere for a few days thanks to a 13 hour flight from Singapore to London, followed 20 hours later by a ten hour flight to Dallas. Overall a 14 hour time difference and I am only just recovering. I presented today at an event in Dallas with old friend […]
In contrast with their One World partners BA, Qantas were a model of service between London and Sydney over the weekend. Failures of the entertainment system were treated with good humour and an obvious concern to fix the problem. This morning (its early Monday in Sydney) the hotel managed to miss by wake up call […]
One of the questions at KM World was the now familiar question: Is KM dead? My view for about two years now is that it is on its last leg as a strategic movement (otherwise known as a fad) in management. We also have that infallible predictor that a fad cycle is coming to an […]
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 […]
Euan is definitely back from his holiday with a provoking post in which the key paragraph states Much of corporate IT has been designed to replicate a hierarchical view of organisations which pigeon holes people and bears little relation to the real world they work in. Now this triggered a key issue for me on […]
On the ACT-KM list serve someone made a comment to the effect that we should not give up trying to predict a complex system. I just posted a reply which I repeat here. It needs more work but I offer it for comment: Words can mean many things in the context. However I think its […]
Goodhart a British economist is widely held to have formulated the equivalent of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principal for economics. It states as follows Any statistical relationship will break down when used for policy purposes A simpler formulation from a US academic translates this as: If a measure becomes a target, then it ceases to be a […]
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