February 27, 2005

The 18 commandments of Knowledge-conscious managers

19:35 on Sunday February 27, 2005 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

I like the idea that Knowledge Management is really about Knowledge Conscious Management, or to put it differently, Managing in the Knowledge Age as Professor Klaus North puts it. Incidentally, this explains why it is so difficult to introduce in...



February 22, 2005

Socially engaged web-hosting services

17:17 on Tuesday February 22, 2005 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Dishost from Belgium provides "web-hosting services with a pinch of clean energy". Another sign of the importance of meaning and ecosystem niches in the knowledge age...



Social Software = Stuff That Gets You Laid.

17:08 on Tuesday February 22, 2005 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

From Clay ShirkyIf you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy (...) “Social software” is about making it easy for people to...



Blog readers to be managed as a community?

15:49 on Tuesday February 22, 2005 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Intel president Paul Otellini writes a blog, which theoretically only employees can read. Of course, there were leaks in the press which brought Mr. Otellini to be more careful. He is said to have written in a recent post:While this...



Blogging for Project Management

15:23 on Tuesday February 22, 2005 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

10 ways to use blogs for managing projects by Tim Duckett, an english type. That's how the list goes (my comments in brackets):1-Communicating with project stakeholders 2-Replacing paper 3-Building issue logs 4-Capturing information snippets: from shared passwords to useful URLs...



Google: "Recruiting the best minds on the planet"

14:58 on Tuesday February 22, 2005 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Recruiting quizzes at Google presented during their analyst day on Feb 9. look a little destabilizing, don't they? The recruiting process really looks like an exam. As a programmer, you're given a coding problem. As a salesperson, you're asked to...



Accessing enterprise CRM through RSS

14:11 on Tuesday February 22, 2005 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Charlie Wood just completed the proof of concept of a tool that allows him to get new leads from Salesforce.com via RSS. To quote:Wow, from the surge in traffic to the site, I think this is proving to be a...



Firing Carly Fiorina

13:32 on Tuesday February 22, 2005 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

So Carly Fiorina was fired, and was given a $21 millions severance package for failing the merger of HP and Compaq, as many anticipated would happen anyway. Regardless of the outrageous "compensation for failing" -which is downright sickening and shows...



Corporate communication staffs in trouble?

13:10 on Tuesday February 22, 2005 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

From Chris Anderson through Dan Gilmore again.Today in the US the newspaper is fading, as is its influence on American journalism: news and information is becoming a commodity. What will rise as a differentiating competitive advantage? I'd argue that it's...



When social networking pays off

12:53 on Tuesday February 22, 2005 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Newsweek: The Connected Get More Connected.This month, 100 of Silicon Valley s top venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, bloggers and promoters will begin receiving cool new stuff for free, delivered straight to their homes and offices. In return, these movers and...



February 07, 2005

Corporate blogs are coming

22:28 on Monday February 7, 2005 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Over nine hundred Microsoft employees have unique individual blogs. A list of them can be found here Novell already lists employee blogs in their company directory along with the employee’s email address. Boeing's and GM's senior execs are starting to...



February 02, 2005

A MUST READ for all knowledge managers

18:43 on Wednesday February 2, 2005 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

"Power to the Edge", by David Alberts and Richard Hayes, is a book I downloaded here (beware! 4 Megs pdf file) after reading Ray Ozzie's comment. I just finished, and it is an absolutely fascinating piece of work. I...