October 26, 2004

Free Tagging and Ontologies

9:01 on Tuesday October 26, 2004 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

In a great post, Metadata for the masses (via Many-to-Many), Peter Merholz advocates free tagging of documents as opposed to choosing tags from inflexible top-down classification systems, which often force users to view the world in potentially unfamiliar ways. I...



October 20, 2004

From Susan RoAne

17:02 on Wednesday October 20, 2004 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

I found this quote from motivational speaker Susan RoAne in Guy Kawazaki's latest book, "The Art of the Start": It's not what you know or who you know, but who knows you I wish more CXOs and less pornographers knew...



October 15, 2004

Don't give them alternatives!

10:07 on Friday October 15, 2004 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Heard at the KM Forum two days ago from a KM consultant: Teams should not make recommendations to the management but propose alternativesWrong. In the knowledge economy, teams are expected to be opinionated and make strong recommendations to the management,...



October 09, 2004

Corporate Yellow Pages - White Paper Anyone?

20:49 on Saturday October 9, 2004 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

"If only we knew what we know…" When top managers become concerned by their lack of visibility of the company’s collective knowledge, they start a «corporate yellow pages» project to improve the online corporate directory, which usually only gives business...



October 08, 2004

Is there really a market for KM?

15:32 on Friday October 8, 2004 | 2 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Ron from Prism Legal writes knowledge management is in choppy waters (...) however, I do not think KM is in any fundamental danger. But we may be in a period of consolidation and more realistic expectations. For almost two years...



October 05, 2004

Corporate life blunder

14:21 on Tuesday October 5, 2004 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

I made a big mistake this morning. I was asked by my boss to present the progress of knowledge networking initiatives to senior VPs of my company (some of which I am involved in as a project member or advisor),...



October 03, 2004

The first two chapters of my book are on line

22:05 on Sunday October 3, 2004 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wew! I just published the first two chapters of the book I am writing. They're on a new dedicated site bearing the title of the book "Le prix de la confiance", which could be translated by "In search of trust"...