Archive for the ‘Strategy’ Category
Defining intent in a change management program
A while ago I argued that the target metaphor was inappropriate for change projects. The idea that anyone could accurately define a change target, aim at …
Read MoreWhy Command And Control Is So Bad
Bruce Nussbaum over at BusinessWeek Online has written a short piece entitled: Lessons From Home Depot’s Bob Nardelli—Why Command And Control Is So Bad. Autocratic …
Read MorePeople don’t leave organisations
I was working with Tony High before Christmas when he made the point to the group that ‘people don’t leave organisations, they leave managers’. This …
Read MorePrinciples and knowledge sharing in organisations
The previous blog contained some reflections on the considerable amout of knowledge strategy work we did in 2006. One of the things mentioned was the establishment of …
Read MoreReflecting on Knowledge Strategy
Anecdote has worked with some fantastic organisations over the past year and one of the main areas has been in developing knowledge strategies. I thought …
Read MoreWhy people do the things they do
Christmas reading has help me stumble across two very different essays with the same theme: people are enormously influenced by their social ties. Anyone reading …
Read MoreKnowledge management fact – collaboration degrades when people are further apart
Mark and I have been helping clients with knowledge strategies lately and as we write them up we would remember knowledge management ‘facts’ like, “knowledge …
Read MoreSocial network perspective of knowledge-retention strategies
Salvatore Parise, Rob Cross and Tom Davenport have teamed up to write an article for Sloan Management Review titled: Strategies for Preventing a Knowledge-Loss Crisis. …
Read MoreTag lines for knowledge strategies
We’ve been helping a few organisations with knowledge strategies lately and discovered the power of knowledge strategy tag lines. This idea first came to us while we were …
Read MoreThree-dozen knowledge sharing barriers
Yesterday I read a paper by Andreas Riege with the title, Three-dozen knowledge sharing barriers managers must consider. It’s a literature review that lists sets …
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