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Make it explicit when…

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 13, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

The following four conditions are cited as factors that communities of practice might consider in deciding whether something should be made explicit: it is relatively …

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Redressing the balance in developing knowledge strategies

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 27, 2007
Filed in Strategy

Strategies should result in a set of actions making the organisation more valuable to whoever it serves. Knowledge strategies are no different but most organisations …

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Using stories to retain and keep alive retiring employees’ knowledge

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 19, 2007
Filed in Events

I should have mentioned this earlier but this Friday (23rd February) I will be presenting a workshop in Sydney on how to use stories to …

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Finding success stories

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 14, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling

Have you ever been asked to find success stories and been unsure where to start? Done well success stories slide effortlessly from one teller to the …

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Organisational stories

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 28, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling

A friend of a friend of our is a frequent business traveller. Let’s call him Dave. Dave was recently in Atlantic City for an important …

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Moving from on-line to face-to-face and back again

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 22, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

I met John Smith and Bev Trayner face-to-face for the first time last year in Florence at a CP2 dialogue. I’d known both of them …

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Three types of collaboration

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 29, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Nancy White and I have been working on a project to help our client enhance their collaboration practices. In the process we’ve identified three types …

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How to use del.icio.us to foster collaboration

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 20, 2006
Filed in News

del.icio.us is a free social book-marking web site which can help a group share useful links. Instead of one person relying on their own efforts …

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Social network perspective of knowledge-retention strategies

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 30, 2006
Filed in Strategy

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. …

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Nancy White and me at VPSCIN

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 13, 2006
Filed in Communication

Nancy and I facilitated a workshop this week for the Victorian Public Sector Continuous Improvement Network (VPSCIN) where we explored the relationship between communities of …

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