Archive for the ‘Strategy’ Category
Space and tools impacts thinking
We’ve been running a series of knowledge strategy projects for natural resource management regions across Australia. The activities culminate for each region in a two …
Read MoreWhy have a knowledge strategy? Emotions count
The Democratic party in the US has had a pretty rough trot in terms of the number of Democratic Presidents that managed to secure a …
Read MoreChasing cool
Who is prescient enough to be able to consistently predict the future? These researchers think they can. Coolhunting: Chasing Down the Next Big Thing via …
Read MoreWhat’s in a knowledge environment?
In 2002 I wrote a paper called Crafting a Knowledge Strategy. Its basic premise was that a knowledge strategy should be designed for emergence: it …
Read MoreA short history of Anecdote
On the weekend I created this presentation about how we got started and I describe some of the projects we’ve done. There are five parts. …
Read MoreEvolving storylines to create your first journey
Rick Davies, the creator of the Most Significant Change techniques, has posted a description of a story-based technique he experimented with that’s designed to help …
Read MoreHow to set a task in a complex work environment
One of the most useful books I own is Gary Klein’s “Intuition at Work: Why Developing Your Gut Instincts Will Make You Better at What …
Read MoreHave the large consulting firms trained us to do knowledge strategies the wrong way?
I just returned from a week’s holiday at Mossy Point in NSW and as usual I had a pile of books I was going to …
Read MoreWhen to use open source techniques
Nicholas Carr has written a thought provoking piece in Strategy+Business on the limitations of open source approaches. In a nutshell, open source approaches work best …
Read MoreKnowledge strategy – from the bottom up
For a few months now I have been proposing a new way to do knowledge strategy that involves everyone in the organisation. There are three …
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