Archive for the ‘Insight’ Category

How not to organise information

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 2, 2007
Filed in Insight

I’ve recently been telling everyone about a presentation I saw on You Tube by David Weinberger called Everything is Miscellaneous. David’s argument is that in …

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Genius everyday

Posted by  Robyn —August 23, 2007
Filed in Insight

I’ve been keeping my eyes open for something entertaining to read on a long plane journey. I’m a fast reader and easily bored so the …

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What do we mean by tacit knowledge?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 14, 2007
Filed in Insight

Most of our work here at Anecdote involves working with tacit knowledge. But it is clear that there is a broad understanding about what’s meant …

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Decision games

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 21, 2007
Filed in Decision-making, Insight

Decision games are a way to practice making judgements before you need to make them. They consist of a scenario that a group of people …

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Not so Newcomer

Posted by  Robyn —June 29, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes, Insight

Well, Daryl’s arrival on the scene at Anecdote has really put the pressure on me now he has published his maiden blog post. Here I’ve …

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Peer assist animation

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 31, 2007
Filed in Insight

When you’re steeped in a discipline like knowledge management you start to assume that everyone knows about techniques like After Action Reviews and Peer Assists. …

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A new conceptualisation of expertise, advice and knowledge

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 16, 2007
Filed in Insight

This looks really interesting: Expertise is about more than evidence. It is also about judgement and wisdom. Our argument is not that we should reject …

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Wow, is this really what a knowledge map looks like?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 15, 2007
Filed in Insight

Here’s a good idea. A neat compilation of a range of visualisation techniques arranged in the form of a periodic table. I was checking out …

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4 ways to use your time more effectively

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 18, 2006
Filed in Insight

Wherever I go I hear the same thing, “I’d love to do it, but we just don’t have enough time.” ‘It’ is anything they know …

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The role of past patterns in discontinuous change

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 29, 2006
Filed in Insight

Dave Snowden has written an excellent post warning of the dangers of simply looking at the past and attempting to apply, without adaptation, what happened then to …

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