KM and (corporate) politics
Thursday 25 January 2007
- The dark side of Six Sigma - In AOK_K-Net : Message: SiLK: Six Sigma Just Plain Wrong - Dave Snowden DaveSnowden writes: (...)I think Six Sigma as it is generally applied is just plain wrong, the management philosophy that underpins it inhumane at best, evil at worst.... (23:10 | 0 Comments)
Friday 24 November 2006
- A new name is needed for KM - from Dave Snowden in "whence goeth KM?"Is KM dead? My view for about two years now is that it is on its last leg as a strategic movement (otherwise known as a fad) in management. We also have that infallible... (16:18 | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 17 May 2006
- No pain, no change - A few months ago, I had a conversation with my counterpart at ABB, discussing about Knowledge Management in my company and his. As I marveled at the cultural change under way at ABB, he said that he had been helped... (13:55 | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 19 April 2006
- Collaborative leadership requires systemic thinking - Steve Denning told me once that managers have a very binary attitude towards knowledge management; either they get it, or they don't. And Steve added that I should not waste my time with those who don't. In "Transforming the systems... (16:43 | 0 Comments)
Monday 20 March 2006
Tuesday 14 March 2006
- Corporate Democracy in Action - Just had a conversation on corporate blogging with Eric Juin, my counterpart at Bouygues Construction. He told me about one of their senior execs who started a forum (a.k.a. blog) about three years ago. Every week from Monday to Thursday... (22:40 | 0 Comments)
Sunday 22 January 2006
- Intelligence Gathering - #1 Market of KM - In an article by Clippinger on leadership The role of the visionary leader is to imagine futures, determine what is limiting about the present, and show what is possible in the future. (...) Visionaries play a vital but somewhat contentious... (11:50 | 0 Comments)
Sunday 6 November 2005
- elearning vs. knowledge management is a political debate - Verna Allee whom I met last year wrote yet another article on "e-learning vs. Knowledge Management", which proves that the debate is not over yet. For Verna, elearning companies really offer training management, and do not master the basic theory... (18:33 | 0 Comments)
Friday 8 July 2005
- KM is a political movement - Extract of a post I wrote yesterday on the Association of Knowledge Work discussion group taking place now around Alex Bennet. I was under mild ;-) attack from one participant who didn't like my revolutionary "us against them" rethoric: 'Maybe... (15:04 | 0 Comments)
Sunday 10 April 2005
- Prozac Moment - In one of his latest books, Re-imagine! Tom Peters talks about a depressing moment when he was called to a participate in a three-hour meeting of one of the top 50 American companies. To quote:Presentation after presentation spewed forth. The... (08:26 | 0 Comments)
Sunday 13 March 2005
- Redefining KM - once again - From John Maloney The elemental systems portfolio of techniques in the KM Cluster action/research ecosystem is as follows:Enterprise Collaboration (EC) Organizational Learning (OL) Communities of Practice (CP) Social Networks (SN) Intellectual Capital (IC) Complexity Science (CS) Content Management (CM) Measurement... (21:39 | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 22 February 2005
- Firing Carly Fiorina - 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... (13:32 | 0 Comments)
- Corporate communication staffs in trouble? - 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... (13:10 | 0 Comments)
Friday 5 November 2004
- A fine hour for French corporate KM - Today was a great day for CoP-1 the community of corporate knowledge officers I co-founded two years ago in Paris when I came back from the US. Twenty community members and twenty guests, most of them senior executives from big... (01:04 | 0 Comments)
Thursday 2 September 2004
- Knowledge sharing litteracy - Dismantling a Culture of Knowledge-Hoarding, by Jamie S. Walters in the CEO Refresher (Thanks George!) looks at why people hoard information in traditional work environmentsIn such environments, the organizational cultures traditionally rooted are ones of hyper-competitiveness, where people hoard knowledge... (14:45 | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 17 August 2004
- Summer reading - A sad parabole - In Network-Centric Thinking: The Internet's Challenge to Ego-Centric Institutions , a PlaNetwork article, Jed Miller and Rob Stewart advocate "network-centric" organizations, and tell the parabol of a planet far away wracked with environmental devastation where no ruling organization wants to... (18:34 | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 30 June 2004
- Communicating on KM - I was talking this morning with some people from the Pan-Europe organization in France and we were wondering how we could attract more attention on Knowledge Management from politicians and corporate leaders. The problem is that sharing knowledge is usually... (16:17 | 0 Comments)
Thursday 3 June 2004
- Anonymity in communities? Why not after all... - Hideo Yamazaki, CKO of Nomura Research Institute, wrote a very interesting article in the KM Review, also published on the Knowledge Board called Knowledge Communities in Japan: A Case Study - 10 Mar 2004. The paragraph on anonymity struck me:Another... (18:01 | 0 Comments)
Friday 9 January 2004
- Wrong metrics... - I love this cartoon from Celemi corp. in Sweden. I often have this sort of feeling in my company when I am asked to justify knowledge management or e-learning projects by cost savings.... (16:42 | 0 Comments)
Saturday 6 December 2003
- Why cheese-eating surrender monkeys have a hard time with KM - In his article "Trying to understand the main cultural hurdles to the learning organization concept in France" Dr. Daniel Belet of BLV learning partners makes an insightful analysis of the cultural issues that we face here in France when trying... (13:40 | 0 Comments)
Sunday 30 November 2003
- Versailles – The first KM project - I have always been wondering why KM programs were so controversial, why they could flourish only « with a strong support of top management », why there were so many social activists among bloggers… Reading a book recently about Louis... (14:42 | 1 Comments)