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Information is like water (part 2)

Thanks to Oscar Berg.

Tags: information , knowledge , knowledge-management

Information is like water

Via Oscar Berg.

Tags: information , knowledge , knowledge-management

Sharing knowledge is not a task but a way of working

I just saw this interesting post on this topic,  thanks to Martin Roulleaux-Dugage. The difference between traditional KM and its “2.0″ evolution is that it’s not a task anymore but a way of doing things, a on-the-flow activity.
Take time to classify, fill in forms, stock is real burden that often lead KM projects to fail. [...]

Best practices are not the best : it’s those that work

Now that transfert of best pratices is at the center of companies’ concernes, old habits seem to be a real barrier.
How are things done ?
The best solution brought to a problem within the company (and sometimes at competitor’s) is identitied and implemented. Easy, isn’t it ?
But there’s a snag. Since activities are not as repeatable [...]

Connecting formal and informal knowlegde to create business value.

If enterprise 2.0 is to develop informal networks and tacit knowledge formalization within the enterprise, there’s still one question to be answered : how does all the spent energy contributes to create business value ?
Actually, I consider it as a keypoint in every project I manage : the use of all this intangible patrimony for [...]

Archivists : a new performance lever

Everything started with this note about Lille Business school and some talks with an archivist, a job I didn’t know at all, or, as a lot of people, a job I thought I knew things about. It gave me the idea to make a little poll around me about how this function was considered within [...]

The art of managing information

Just the once won’t hurt, I’d like to share with you an interview given by Tom Davenport to the french economic newspaper “Les Echos”.
Here’s what he recommends

stop thinking about plumbing (technology) and focus on water (information)
wonder why, although information management relies up to 5% on technology and 95% on pyschology (Tom Peters), companies dedicate [...]

The best search engine is you

Access to qualified information is a double challenge : first because information is the new economic oil, second because we’re snowed under information.
Google showed the way : information relevance comes from users. The more you quote, the more you link, the more you read the more you give pertinance. Solutions that aim at analyzing user’s [...]

Rethinking information : one more paradigm shift

Connection people and information (and people via information)  are key in organizational performance in the knowledge economy. It’s important to understand that evend if a part of the informational capital, even a very small part, because of its founding nature, has to be stocked, carved on marble, all the rest, that’s been ofter neglected so [...]