Mopsos

Yesterday, our small KM team presented conclusions on one year of active support of emerging communities of practice in my company to senior execs of the company. The stakes were relatively high. Either they "got it" and we had a future in the company (well... sort of) or they didn't, and we had to find another job.
Well, it looks like we did a good job (thanks Steve) and that our company is taking communities more seriously.

I had dinner with Jean-François Péan, Bain & Co Partner in Paris. We talked extensively about the KM tools at Bain & Co, which he said were rated #1 for management consulting firms. I was quite impressed, yet a little concerned about the real-time nature of the project knowledge base. Any consultant can be notified of a new case just opened anywhere in the company, and I wonder how customers feel about it. He invited me to come and have a demo some day.

I just went to visit Bain's web site. Noticed the alumni network? This supports my thesis that the distinction between management consulting firms and business schools is becoming blurry, and that the business models are gradually becoming the same.

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