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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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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High Quality, High Impact KM: Start with the right questions

I’ve set out my stall when it comes to KM and by now it should be pretty clear that I believe that successful KM outputs are reliant on people.  I also strongly believe that the key to successful KM requires us to consider the following in its operational activities: The needs of the individual, framed [...]

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