knowledgeer-at-large

Two recent blog posts; “Forget about copying best practices,” by Oscar Berg and the very compelling follow-on, “Why Best Practices Don’t Work for Knowledge Work,” by Luis Suarez pose the fundamental validity question regarding the concept commonly known as: “best practice?” Though the two posts make entirely differing and compelling arguments against the ‘bp’ concept, [...]

I have been following the majority of academic work in the broadly defined fields related to knowledge practices from before the term knowledge management found any footing in our common vocabulary.  (I’m an old guy.)  But the point is, I’ve seen most of what has transpired in this running history.
IMHO, of the hundreds of academic [...]

Often, its when one combines two or more things: two/more people, two/more functions, two/more elements you get a BANG!
Active Knowledge Architecture/Engineering (AKA) is a multi-dimensional combination of whole enterprise scope, architectural composition, functional modeling methodology, and collective human possibility that combine together in a way that has just such explosive potential.
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From time to time I intend to offer up a suggestion or two regarding other blogs that I feel deserve some attention.  I have decided to start this series by recommending Dave Snowden’s blog in Cognitive Edge.
As a quality and business process consultant back in the late ’80s-early ’90s, I have been following the various [...]