Archive for the ‘Strategy’ Category

Space and tools impacts thinking

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 12, 2007
Filed in Strategy

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 …

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Why have a knowledge strategy? Emotions count

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 29, 2007
Filed in Strategy

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 …

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Chasing cool

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 23, 2007
Filed in Strategy

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 …

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What’s in a knowledge environment?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 21, 2007
Filed in Strategy

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 …

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A short history of Anecdote

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 23, 2007
Filed in Strategy

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. …

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Evolving storylines to create your first journey

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 2, 2007
Filed in Strategy

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 …

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How to set a task in a complex work environment

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 17, 2007
Filed in Collaboration, Strategy

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 …

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Have the large consulting firms trained us to do knowledge strategies the wrong way?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 8, 2007
Filed in Strategy

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 …

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When to use open source techniques

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 3, 2007
Filed in Collaboration, Strategy

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 …

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Knowledge strategy – from the bottom up

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 29, 2007
Filed in Strategy

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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