Use this category for anything related to Knowledge-centric collaboration.
Thank you Jiju for this recommendation.
Seamless Integration with Amnesia Connect Article and Videos
Microsoft Surface is not dead? Check out Blackberry promo on Surface.
How cool is this? Very. Practical, maybe. Application/Uses, what do you think?
Did you see the X-ray vision? Cool, eh?
From Fast Co Design
Days off, ”free time” and 15% time — keys to innovation? Google 20% time. But it does not always work. From the article “Many companies have tried to emulate the ‘20 percent time idea’ but failed because they remained conservative about supporting the new ideas,” he says. And experts agree that this kind of nudging probably works best at companies where there’s a high level of creative competitiveness; that is, where impressing peers is just as important as the innovation itself.”
Innovation needs to be part of the culture, it has to be a competence, and must be included in the strategy.
What do you think?
Thank you Gunnar, Aaron, and Luke for this wonderful recommendation.
If you are into Innovation and a neat way to present ideas, you need to check out this video (and book) by Steven Johnson .
What do you think?
From Fast Company Magazine and Tech Crunch
I am excited about the coming of the New iPad. Of course, any APPLE release has loads of rumors and pre-release information, so I would like to share some of it iPad Rumors
The REALLY exciting aspect of the continued innovation of the iPad is the evolution of the Tablet Interface. Forrester Research predicts that One Third of online consumers will own a tablet computer of some type by 2015 or 82 Million people.
Forrester Research through Tech Crunch
From the article “Last year, Apple created a new category of computing with the iPad. Now, every other PC manufacturer is rushing to revamp or bring out their own tablet computers. New tablets are expected to dominate at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. ”
“Forrester Research put out a new forecast this morning for the growth of tablet computers. It expects the number of tablets sold in the U.S. to go from 10.3 million last year to 24.1 million in 2011, and growing to 44 million in annual units sold by 2015.”
Do you expect to won one? I do, in 2011 and that is not counting my iTouch or my new Samsung Captivate Phone.
Thanks for the referral Mary.
This blog posting has some great ideas about the coming wave of digital books and e publishing. The blog publishes a 2011 “to do” list.
What’s on your list?
From an Article in CLO Magazine (Chief Learning Officer)
I love the concepts of “knowledge velocity”.
Knowledge Flow results at the confluence (my word) of three sources of content come together: User Generated Content (Pull), SME (Subject Matter Expert) ”push” content, and content generated by collaboration of process performers and process owners. The article also discusses the concept of “knowledge cycle time”.
What do you think? Real- world KM?
Thank you to Professor William E Huxhold for speaking to our class regarding the “Use of GIS in Business” as a prelude to GIS Day at UW Milwaukee and for suggesting the following videos an introduction to GIS.
http://geospatialrevolution.psu.edu/episode1/complete
http://geospatialrevolution.psu.edu/episode2/complete
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXqLHSBP_x0 (Start here)
How can you see GIS being used in Marketing as well as other aspects of business?
From Future Think Tank
I find this brief article interesting about how some organizations are using social media, inside and outside the company….
From the article….. “Forward-thinking companies use social media for more than just creative marketing campaigns. These companies harness the power of social media to promote a culture that fosters innovation, empowers effective collaboration with customers and partners, and streamlines idea development channels.”
Interesting?
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle
From Harvard Business Review Blog
Do your Knowledge Workers have a Bitsmith?
This post presents a wonderful concept that points out the need for specialized tools for the knowledge era. That of a “Bitsmith”. Bitsmiths, according to the post ” are people who have deep knowledge of both the work content and the tools used to support the work. In other words, they are almost as expert in derivatives or computer design as they are in computer-programming languages. Because they understand both the domain and the tools, bitsmiths can take an idea from concept to implementation quickly .”
The article makes the case that high performance teams need to have a “bitsmith” just as many towns in the “old west” had blacksmiths to create the tolls they needed.
What do you think of this concept?
Thanks Peter for the article suggestion
From Detroit News
FORD Product Idea Website Article
From the website “Ford Motor Co. is creating a “idea portal” on its Web site, to give consumers the opportunity to suggest new features, allow others to critique them and vote for which ones should be considered by Ford’s product development team.”
Seems like a great idea.
Article on FORD Site About Idea Gathering
What do you think? Should they allow ALL comments to be seen by everyone?
From The Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/article/20100413/AUTO01/4130330/1148/Ford-to-harvest-product-ideas-from-Web#ixzz0m9T8mjH4
From Government Computer News
Thanks Hugh
Mobile phones are used to access the Army’s portal for soldiers to access information from their Knowledge Online Portal.
“The Army Knowledge Online portal, a repository of online information, distance-learning tools, e-mail and other resources for 2.6 million Army users. The Web-based service is now part of a broader service known as Defense Knowledge Online.”
Mini solar chargers and video goggles are also used.
“Army officials are tapping into the ingenuity of its young workforce and responding to their predisposition for smarter gadgets at the same time by developing an array of Go Mobile devices — new communications and conferencing devices that can fit into a soldier’s pocket while going easy on the service’s pocketbook.”
Sounds like we should all be following in the Army’s footsteps for our firms. What do you think?
From KM Edge
Referred by Evelyn of MSOE Rader School of Business MG-750
KM Edge (blog) from APQC presents a wonderful PPT which looks at three Ba Based Knowledge Management approaches in Japanese Companies. As we study Knowledge Management, we learn more of the concept of Ba. This presentation gives us some insight into the power of Ba.
Ba Based Knowledge Management Approaches
Comments?
From an Article in Chief Learning Officer
Agile Learning: Thriving in the New Normal
From the article
“Organizational learning agility is an enterprise capability that requires deliberate and systematic design, including essential cultural, structural, process and technology-support elements. Based on studies from TRClark, a research, consulting and training company, there are five primary factors that interact to promote or hinder learning agility within organizations:
1. Intelligence function: The capacity of an organization to survey and interpret its entire business ecosystem, including both internal and external competitive environments. The intelligence function interprets information for the strategy function, which feeds the learning function.
2. Learning mindset: The prevailing assumptions, beliefs and dispositions relating to the way people learn.
3. Leadership behavior: The dominant patterns of leadership within an organization.
4. Organizational support: The processes, systems, structures and other forms of support that organizations provide to help employees in their formal and informal learning and execution activities.
5. Learning technology: The forms of technology employed to enable learning at both individual and organizational levels.”
This article presents a number of important ideas about what organizations need to do to compete.
The article goes on to explain each of the five factors.
What do you think?
From Talent Management Magazine…..
Virtual Teams: Narrowing the Performance Gap
This article talks about how virtual teams are becoming more common, however, there are problems with cohesion, collaboration and focus. The article offers some suggestions to deal with these problems.
The article describes the “work revolution” as:
“From local workplace to global work webs: People used to travel to a workplace, but increasingly the work is traveling to them, wherever they are. Freedom from “place” also means we are collaborating more often with customers, partners and colleagues in transitory virtual teams that cross multiple geographic, cultural and organizational boundaries.
From physical presence to technological presence: Being fully present and connecting with others is important on any team, but it becomes more challenging in virtual environments, where isolation and alienation are common.
From command and control to collaborate and control: Managers leading distributed workgroups understand that command-and-control micromanagement is dysfunctional in a virtual environment. To paraphrase a Pentagon saying: It’s pretty hard to turn a screw with an 8,000-mile-long screwdriver.
From information value to connection value: The right information at the right time still has power, but information is everywhere and easily accessible. Connections are becoming the new currency — not simply the number, but the access many give to new knowledge, influence, skills and resources.
From fixed structures to fluid structures: New technologies enable agile working and teaming. Virtual project teams can be formed and dissolved quickly to promote speed, responsiveness and innovation. The best global talent for a job can be mobilized and leveraged to solve customer problems or create new sources of value.”
What do you think of the Six C’s? Cooperation, Convergence, Coordination, Capability, Communication, and Cultural Intelligence.
Are you using virtual teams? Do you see these trends and problems?
From the Harvard Business School Blog…..
How will Augmented Reality affect Your Business
Check out the five “things”. Personally, of these, the “nature of location” will have the most profound impact.
What do you think?
Thanks Chris
The CDC is using Social Media to get the word out about what is happening related to H1N1 etc.
According to the CDC website, ” Help us spread the word and prevent novel H1N1 flu by sharing interactive tools with friends, co-workers and family members!”
Specific Website for H1N1 and Social Media
Seems like a great way to spread the word (I could not resist). What do you think?
Thanks David.
From the article “The result of the collaboration between Twitter and Peek is a version of the device built exclusively for sending tweets.
Clad in “Twitter blue,” the TwitterPeek allows all the same functionality of a desktop Twitter client – reading tweets, sending tweets, replying, retweeting and direct messaging – only it gives users that access on the go.”
Will you be getting one?
Thanks Hugh
Here is another data visualization example. Be sure to try out the controls.
Cool eh? How could you use this for something other than crime spotting?
Thanks Hugh
We are always looking at ways to get our point across related to data, graphs, dashboards, charts, graphics, animation.
Check out this visualization technique Growth of Walmart with Flowing Data through 2006 anyway.
What do you think? How could you use this?
