Archive for the ‘Collaboration’ Category

Some excellent community of practice resources on del.icio.us

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 11, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

I was visiting Beverly Trayner’s blog today and noticed that she references a set of Nancy White’s del.icio.us tags on communities of practice. I think …

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Will the community of practice get started? A test and the effect of titles

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 9, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

We’ve been helping one of our large corporate clients this week make sense of a series of social network charts and during the process the …

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Complexity thinking can change how you think about problems in your organisation

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —February 1, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Inspired by Kurt Richardson’s work exploring the parallels between systems thinking and complexity thinking I couldn’t help myself but to take a few of his …

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Disappearing Yahoo! groups

Posted by  Mark Schenk —January 25, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

My holiday at the beach last week was interrupted by the news that the actKM Forum discussion group, of which I am currently the Convenor, …

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Communities of practice – the right brain of the organisation?

Posted by  Mark Schenk —January 5, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Happy New Year to everyone from the team at Anecdote.  We hope you are returning fresh and fully charged to take on 2006… I have …

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Story for sustainable leadership

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —December 6, 2005
Filed in Collaboration

In a past post I raised a point about the difference between fox and hedgehog thinkers and how the way we think can have a …

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To deal with complexity, keep it simple and make it fun

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —December 2, 2005
Filed in Collaboration

This post from Kathy Sierra on Never underestimate the power of fun really resonates. Earlier this year I completed what was an 8 month long Delphi project investigating …

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Community of practice synonyms

Posted by  Mark Schenk —November 23, 2005
Filed in Collaboration

I have just returned from a conference in Sydney on Knowledge and Innovation.  I sat on a panel yesterday addressing the question “Communities of Practice: …

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Facilitation is a fat word

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —November 17, 2005
Filed in Collaboration, Communication

Earlier this year Brian Bainbridge and I ran an open space event with a group of highly experienced facilitators exploring “Ways to even better NRM facilitation”. …

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Language is vital for addressing complex issues

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 14, 2005
Filed in Collaboration

Dave Pollard is highlighting the similarities between wicked problems and complexity. I had a similar thought a few months back so it’s good to see …

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