Demystifying the Complex, adaptive, agile and dynamic [Part 2 - The KEn Diagram]

The KEn Diagram (Knowledge Environment), below,  is one of the resources that we use, both on the KM Professional Development Certificates and when explaining the Knowledge Environment to organisations.  I’m posting it to compliment the last post on demystifying the complex, adaptive, agile and dynamic – Hope you find it useful…

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Demystifying the Complex, adaptive, agile and dynamic

*Update – The themes in this blog are illustrated in the KEn Diagram (part 2 of this blog) Recently I was sent through a presentation on ‘Agile’ and its links to complexity by Jean Tabaka; I found it very interesting, but, at the same time, I honestly believe that, when it comes to complexity, we [...]

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Are we becoming too lean for tomorrow?

Today’s blog has emerged from presentations that I am about to do in Finland and the US, and an article to be published in the Indiana CPA magazine; but first, a little context; by ‘We’, I am referring to traditional Western economic power houses of the US, EU and UK. The Knowledge Economy drives the [...]

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How to solve really big problems

How do you solve really big problems?  Simple, substitution! We love to ask big questions; questions that fundamentally cannot be answered.  The following video, from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,  sums up our propensity for battling with Fundamentally Unidentified Questions (FUQed) – How do I do Knowledge Management; how do I understand complexity; what [...]

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Tomorrow belongs to knowledge

This is an excerpt from an article that I’m writing for one of our K-Net partners – hope you find it interesting: Why worry about tomorrow, it never comes?  Why worry about future proofing; today is demanding enough? Short-termism can signal the death knell for organisations.  Managers ignoring the shifting tide of the external environment [...]

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The nature of complexity? Predators needed!

The economic environment is a diverse ecosystem that, while threatened by ‘extinction events’ such as the banking crisis, endures and evolves; though clusters of strong ties exist, demonstrated by the domino effect brought about by the sub-prime lending fiasco, the ecosystem survives through loose couplings; minimising the risk of critical failure in a single component to the [...]

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KM is as simple as SAID: A sense of perspective

I’ve been involved in some interesting discussions this week, all brought about by my blog on the D-I-K-W hierarchy.  It has inflamed the debate around what knowledge is, what KM is, and the fact that you just cannot manage knowledge.  KM is a Gordian Knot and, in my opinion, we spend too much time and energy [...]

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Go Simplify Complexity!

Okay, bear with me and the oxymoron in the title [and I am not trying to take on the Cynefin model here ]…this is going to be a bit dizzying, but I’ll get there! Late last year I attended a session at KM Asia, hosted by Stuart French, looking at the ancient game of Go, [...]

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