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?
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?
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?
The following video has an easy to understand explanation of the e-Discovery Process.
What do you think? Easy enough? Make sense? What are YOU doing about meeting the potential “sink hole” called e-Discovery?
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 Corporate Reports Wisconsin
The survey of companies in the “New North” supports that Social media is on the rise in Wisconsin among businesses.
From the article “Of those who do use social media, they tend to use it to connect with/communicate with others in the community or their industry (39 percent), to connect with/ communicate with clients (31 percent) and to gather information or research specific topics (27 percent). Just 22 percent indicated they use social media to find or connect with potential new clients.”
The article also states that of the companies using social media 79% feel the networking has benefited their firms.
Is your organization using social media? What are you using? Is it helping? How?
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 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 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.
Viewed over 3.5 Million times. Funny and and important, interesting and thought provoking TED Talk Video.
Do we grow out of creativity? Are you prepared to be wrong?
What do you think?
This above link is to a HBR Abstract which introduces an article that discusses information overload. It also entices us with the promise of some solutions “Innovative tools and techniques promise relief for those of us struggling with information inundation. Some are technological solutions—software that automatically sorts and prioritizes incoming e-mail, for instance—designed to regulate or divert the deluge. Others prevent people from drowning by getting them to change the way they behave and think.”
I am going to dig out my September copy of HBR and find the answers.
Are you looking for answers? Are you suffering? No, how do you do it?
Thanks to Liquid Canuck for this one, who got it from…….
Check out this video…….
The format will be familiar.
Ok, here is some more information and a look at the Plastic Logic eReader. Looks pretty cool to me.
We read that the Que may be actually targeted at something other than the Kindle. ” But Archuleta also repositions the Que as something a little different to merely being a Kindle killer e-reader device. He notes “Que enhances business performance and gives you a competitive edge.” The business angle’s also played up with mention of support for PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel…and there’s even the intriguing phrase “powerful tools for interacting with and managing the content.” That implies you may be able to do more than just annotate documents on the Que–will you be able to actually edit them, or run a Powerpoint presentation? We can’t tell yet, but it certainly seems that Plastic Logic’s Que will enter the e-reader game right at the top end, perhaps tending toward limited Tablet PC capabilities.”
What do you think? Pretty cool? Will the market handle a “premium product”? Does this seem to square off with the new tablets that we read are coming? DO you want one?
Thanks Hugh for the referral.
I am now following NASA.
How cool is it to get Tweets from space?
I learned about this new book from an article and short video on the INSEAD KNOWLEDGE website.
The article is “The Innovation Manual“ and we can see from the perspective of a marketing professor a number of key points, many of which we have discussed in our classes, but it serves as a great reminder about the “basics” .
David Midgley, the author of the book, uses the example of the Apple iPod and the business model it created. Once again, we see this model coming out as a key to success. Further, the role of customers in product/service innovation and development. We also read about the importance of an innovation culture and the challenges of maintaining a culture of innovation. The book promises to tell us all about it.
What do you think of the reminders here? What should be emphasized more? Less?
