Archive for 2006

Focus, focus, focus – the big four

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 9, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

Paradoxically, one of the dangers of specialising in the practical application of narrative techniques is their wide applicability; sometimes the people who might be interested …

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Kurtz and Snowden on inter-organisational learning networks

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 2, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Cynthia Kurtz and Dave Snowden have written a thought provoking chapter on inter-organisational learning networks. I’ve seen their ideas develop over the last few years …

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Testing your company’s ethics-sensitivity

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 2, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes

I was chatting to a HR Manager from a financial services firm this week and he told me this story about a workshop a management ethicist ran …

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Turning information security upside down

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 1, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes

Just a small thought for the day. I was chatting to the knowledge manager for a large Defence contractor today and he mentioned he’s having …

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The Storytelling and Complexity Conference in New Mexico

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —October 31, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

What is the link between storytelling and complexity? This was the theme that found me travelling over 28 hours from Melbourne, Australia to Las Cruces, New …

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Social network perspective of knowledge-retention strategies

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 30, 2006
Filed in Strategy

Salvatore Parise, Rob Cross and Tom Davenport have teamed up to write an article for Sloan Management Review titled: Strategies for Preventing a Knowledge-Loss Crisis. …

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Facilitating a workshop of 90 futurists

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 29, 2006
Filed in Events

Last week I faciliated a workshop of 90 futurist gathered together for The Australian Foresight Conference. The organisers were keen to harness the energy created …

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Celerity IT is looking for a Senior Business Analyst with Business Narrative skills

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 27, 2006
Filed in News

This job for a senior business analyst in Dallas was advertised on Monster today. Analyze business functions and document high quality functional requirements. The documentation …

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The new science of change

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 26, 2006
Filed in Culture

I enjoyed reading this article this morning on some of the neuroscience behind change and some of the practical approaches you might adopt armed with …

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What I believe about learning

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 24, 2006
Filed in Communication

I was thinking this morning about what I believe about learning. Some of the things that sprang to mind include: people don’t think they’ve learned …

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