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Collaboration may happen by luck : how to provide valuable information without purpose

You must have already heard about serendipity, the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. This is the best way to gout out of the common path instead of recycling the same ideas again and again, which often leads to the same overused solutions. But inĀ  order [...]

SOO + Reuse = productivity

In a former post I gave you my first thought about what I walled SOO or Service Oriented Organizaton. A recent post from Oscar Berg about SOA gave me more ideas about this.
According to him it’s important to focus on reuse which is the very basis of SOA. It is essentiel to isolate, prior to [...]

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

Conversations and the emergence of unsuspected knowledge

A large part of companies’ knowledge is not available for all for the only reason people are not conscious of the importance of some details of their experience and that, since others don’t know what these people know, they don’t think of asking them anything…
Hence the importance of not organising knowledge capture on the [...]

Managing information will soon be a key competence

Employees will have to learn how to built their own informational supply chain in order to improve their efficiency at work.

People are more likely to share information if they know why

Companies know their performance depends more and more on their ability to use information. But information that’s not harnessed can’t be used.
There are two kinds of information : company generated information that’s harnessed (even if people within the organization don’t know where to find it), and employee generated information that remains informal and is only [...]

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 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 [...]