John Bordeaux

So perhaps the real challenge is: How to continue leveraging timeless leadership methods in an era of data overload and information scarcity? I agree with Charles, and go a bit further: Truly great leadership has always been about understanding that leadership emerges from the interaction of a leader, the team, and the situation. Rapid…[Read more]

@Peter – concur! And here is where it gets dicey with the language. We need to be more precise; because “sharing knowledge” in a different bubble than ‘facilitate collaboration’ can get confusing. We need to avoid our old comfortable terms where they confuse more than illuminate.

@Noha, If I may offer an observation. My approach to KM is much about the flows of knowledge (since that lives only in brains). So, in fact, this graphic describes much of what we view as KM. The bubble to “share, manage, retain knowledge” should have a different noun: information, intellectual capital, etc. Information at rest is not knowledge.

Let me be concise in my response: No one with a KM background is writing absurd blogs or articles about that SM/KM dichotomy. KM folks welcome the developments in SM as advancing many of our hopes and promises – while a few SM folks declare that KM people are clueless and rendered obsolete by SM.
It gets a bit tiresome. We see SM and think:…[Read more]

Increasingly, we are able to include ideation practices to tell the story of how KM is relevant to innovation – I know some see that as an overused buzzword, but I don’t see many in the private sector pooh-poohing the concept. Ideation involves behavior, expectations, open decisions, rapid and transparent feedback cycles, absurdly easy tools,…[Read more]

@Sandy, I will take a look at the offerings of Elliot Jacques – but I have to tell you that the first line of his site is a bit of a jolt, stating as it does:
“Requisite Organization is the only systematically scientific approach to management.”
Putting aside that the original Scientific Management (Taylor) school has been thoroughly…[Read more]

Am I allowed to say I told ya so? 🙂

Ray,
We agree more than it appears. When I refer to governance, I am thinking about self-organizing systems. Governance can be bottom-up and fluid – the preferred mode for these spaces. And I agree, I too wish this space would be more about the things you mention. That’s why I write the occasional blog from that perspective, (latest at: https…[Read more]

@Ray – Good points, all. You’re getting to the governance of this group, which is currently, well, ungoverned. Some of us may work as gentle antibodies, pushing back on some of the market-ware that makes its way into our humble gathering. (Of course, that earns some of us a reputation as curmudgeons, which is mainly why Doug loves and stalks me…[Read more]

@Ray, this is a fair challenge. Agree with your view that the graph is marketing-driven, not any information provided and terms misused on the axes. This is a classic Beltway PowerPoint Client Assault. “You bought ECM, CRM, BPM – now you’re ready to buy ACM!”
[Reminds me of a radio commercial making the rounds, inadvertently an honest…[Read more]

Wait, you aren’t paying?! 🙂

With respect, a useful one-liner is self-contained, I.e, without the need for hyperlinks.