The KM Meta-Model (M-Model)

***Model has now Launched – Jan 1st 2012 – Happy New Year!*** Jan Update – v1.02 (19.01.12) Now live Please note:  This model will be made available at no cost as soon as the testing phase has been completed – access will be via a password allocated by K3-Cubed or Perigean technologies. Over the past [...]

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The futility of KM taxonomies

I recently had the pleasure of a conversation with Laszlo Balkanyi, a KMer from Sweden.  Aside from being highly knowledgeable and engaging, he reminded me of a piece of work that I had somehow forgotten about…one of those things I believed to be useless years ago that became enlightened in the context of our discussion. [...]

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Visionary Knowledge Management: Trends and Strategies

This is a Google translation of an article written for the German Community of Knowledge website by Ingo Frost and Kathrin Frank.  I would like to thank the authors for including me in their research and I am just happy to share our work and ideas with the wider business community. Visionary knowledge management: Trends and Strategies 12th December [...]

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Is it time to forget Best Practice?

I am always looking for books or ideas that challenge my way of thinking. A recent read got me reflecting on a popular argument around the idea of ‘Best Practice’ – I’ve touched on this before, but some of the discussion from Tim Harford’s book ‘Adapt’ gave me reason to pause and revisit my previous [...]

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Should you go it alone to innovate?

We are social beings who come together through networks to form collectives.  These collectives can be static or dynamic.  What are we interested in within these networks and why? Organisations have environmental load placed upon them that require them to become more adaptive, to innovate; whether speaking in terms of services, products or policy in [...]

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Making sense of complexity

Last week a colleague led me into a debate with one of the leading organisations offering ‘solutions’, or a response, to organisational complexity.  They have a model that primarily categorises the variety in our environment via the identification of simple-complicated-complex-chaotic phenomena.  Our discussion was centred around the way in which we attempt to bring order [...]

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