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Barriers and attractors – the practicalities of words
I’ve had the good fortune to work with Dave Snowden and Cynthia Kurtz at IBM while we were developing approaches to designing interventions using barriers and …
Read MoreThe role of metaphor in building an online community
Nancy White pointed me to this excellent post by Kathy Sierra which describes how the online community, javaranch, was built on the principle of members …
Read MoreBusinessweek is trumpeting blogs for business
There is a gradual awakening to how blogs might be used in business. Here is an article in Businessweek which provides a hosts of interesting …
Read MoreHow to identify a wicked (read complex) problem
Bill Godfrey has found, what I think is, a good list to help know whether you are dealing with a wicked (ie. complex) problem: The …
Read MoreFinding good blogs is a social phenomena
Finding good blogs is difficult. It is much like finding new friends when you move to a new city: it takes time and effort. Today …
Read MorePodcasting is taking off but when will it make it into organisations?
Today’s Age has a article (requires free subscription) on Podcasting, the audio version of blogging, and suggests its adoption is outpacing its text-based cousin. While the numbers …
Read MoreInternal blogs, taboo and organised dissent
Dennis Hamilton has written a short piece describing his experience blogging inside the firewall—he works for an architectural and engineering firm. Dennis mentions three issues which …
Read MoreAnecdote circles and yak shaving
Seth Godin believes ‘Yak Shaving’ is the single best phrase he’s learned this year. It describes those situations when you are extremely sidetracked when trying to …
Read MoreAssumptions about monitoring
Hi Michael, thanks for you kind comments about my blog. As you’ve probably gathered, my thoughts on monitoring are developing so I appreciate your questions. …
Read MoreThe Art of Monitoring
Organisations that operate in complexity need a monitoring regime. Combining the following three approaches to monitoring will improve an organisation’s ability to adapt in uncertain …
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