KM Euphemisms – ‘Culture’

Knowledge Management is something I love to do and to talk about.  Nonaka and Taguchi is music to my ears. However, in my education we talked around a central KM issue that needs to be considered more. The euphemism that is used in KM is ‘culture’.  What exactly does this mean? It means considering what [...]

Business 2.0 – The Power of Blogging

The Transport Security Administration has been tanned in the media today over the actions of some screening personnel. You can read the details here.
I was impressed with the way that they handled the news of this on their blog. You can read the post here, with the announcement of policy change here.
You can tell from [...]

Frontiers of Business – The return of the Social Contract?

The Harvard Business School blog is an invaluable resource to me, a librarian, getting into the world of business. Reading it every day has been showing some encouraging aspects of the business community regarding Knowledge Management writ large. My understanding of Knowledge Management doesn’t rest on the software. KM comes out of corporate culture, and [...]

Knowledge Management Tools – Storytelling

Storytelling?
Once upon a time?
In business?
You do it all the time.
I’ve made learning a professional career since I was 5 and one of the most efficient ways of processing a large amount of information is to tell it in a story. I learned trigonometry through distance estimating problems in Scouts, I learned the history of [...]

Knowledge Managment Tools – OpenProj

Doing project planning is great when your at the office (or in my case the computer lab) where they have the licenced software. I know that some small and medium sized businesses have to make difficult decisions regarding just how many licenses to purchase. OpenProj solves some of the problems relating to Microsoft Project. OpenProj [...]