I KEEP six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who Kipling, from The Elephant's Child Of all the Just So Stories the Kolokolo Bird's injunction to “Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, […]
The first of three posts with some draft content for the new web site Cognitive Edge acts as a research centre for a distributed network of independent and in house consultants. We create methods and tools together with associated training and support. Our overall philosophy is apply learning from the natural sciences to social systems. […]
I promised some time ago that I would post on Scharmer's Theory U. I wasn't that impressed with the 2005 book co-authored with Sengeaworski & Flowers but some of his papers and presentations in his own voice, have seemed more interesting. So I bought the massive paperback tome which now sits by my chair in […]
The opening day of KM World 2010 and for the first time on the East Coast. I’ve keynoted at nearly everyone of these events for over a decade and that has given an opportunity to witness the changing fortunes of KM over time. The move to Washington makes sense (and I gather has doubled numbers) […]
When I shared some of my views about the Cynefin Framework with Dave Snowden he responded that rather than my preferred term “epistemological pluralism”, he would talk about the Cynefin Framework in terms of “contextual epistemologies”. I think these differences are somewhat semantic in that we both share a view that epistemology, the way we […]
An interesting technique here, three people asked to comment on the previous day. I summarise below Tricia Wind identity the attractors and how do we monitor them, how do we monitor feedback loops Using narrative to deepend understanding Map it strategic choices along the way, may not be good to stick to the plan Then […]
On the New York Times (March 30) there is an interesting article on micro-projectors “The (micro)projectors may be particularly useful for business presentations — for example, when road warriors need to show a product video to small groups. No coordination would be needed to arrange for a screen. Instead, a patch of wall within a […]
I was engaged in a discussion earlier this morning with someone who feels that knowledge has to be written down if it is to survive the retirement or other loss for other cause of employees. Part of the exchange involved discussing understanding knowledge creation and use in call centres. This reminded me of a story […]
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