Corporate narrative is not storytelling

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 13, 2005
Filed in Business storytelling

After hearing Dave Snowden describe the importance and application of stories in organisations for the first time, I became extremely excited by the idea and …

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Don’t forget Max Boisot

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 12, 2005
Filed in News

I was chatting to Bill Godfrey today and we got onto the topic of Denham Grey’s top 5 KM books. We were both surprised that …

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New narrative techniques workshop in Melbourne

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 11, 2005
Filed in Events

On the 1st March I will be offering a one-day workshop for particpants to learn the Cynefin narrative techniques. My aim is to provide all …

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Mapping archetypes for an online community

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 11, 2005
Filed in News

  Patrick Lambe has done a terrific job writing up the archetype extraction exercise we did at the ActKM forum conference last year. Well worth …

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The practitioner’s landscape by Glenda H. Eoyang

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 10, 2005
Filed in Collaboration

Papers which provide practical advice on the design of complexity-based interventions for organisational issues are rare. E:CO (a new complexity journal) is attending to this …

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E:CO – New Complexity Journal

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 5, 2005
Filed in Insight

E:CO is a new journal exploring the theory and practice of applying complexity science concepts to organisational issues. The entire content of the current issue …

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Cynefin project – Bank of Thailand

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 4, 2005
Filed in Business storytelling

There are relatively few available case studies that document projects using Cynefin techniques. I believe this will be remedied in the near future on the …

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Knowledge management map

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 3, 2005
Filed in Insight

One view of the various flavours of knowledge management.

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Updated view on complex system intention

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 3, 2005
Filed in Communication

Thanks for your comment Matt. I agree, the diagram does suggest that ‘known’ is a subset of ‘knowable’ etc., and this wasn’t my intent. Here …

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Capturing oral histories

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 1, 2005
Filed in Business storytelling

There is a growing interest in capturing employees stories using video or audio. Experienced employees are walking out the door and taking their knowledge with …

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