December 26, 2006

Tragedy of the commons again

Elaborating on a previous post about the lack of market for KM consulting, this is a dilbert cartoon explaining in very simple terms why there is no market for knowledge management....



My presentation at Educa Berlin

I was asked to publish my presentation made at Educa Berlin on November 30 on behalf of Schneider Electric and Boostzone. Topic was the role of communities of practice in modern management, that we called "netcentric", a still rather weird...



Communities are not made to "share best practices", but to serve customers.

Last friday, I had a long chat with John Smith of Learning Alliance, the famous guru of communities of practice, and Lauren Klein, who developed CoPs at Novell. We discussed the development of communities of practice at Schneider Electric as...