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Expertise location without technology

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 26, 2006
Filed in Insight

Some of my favourite bloggers are talking about expertise location recently. Jack Vinson provides a good summary. Luis Suarez riffs off Dennis McDonald, who has …

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Perspectives on problem solving

Posted by  Mark Schenk —June 22, 2006
Filed in Communication

Individuals and organisations have many ways of tackling problems. A paper ‘Describing 16 Habits of Mind’ describes the following perceptual orientations that one can take …

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Evaluating expertise

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 9, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

One of our newsletter readers asks the following question in relation to our article on expertise location: “do you have any comments or references on …

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Squidoo lenses for Anecdote

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 3, 2006
Filed in Communication, News

Seth Godin put it nicely when he said that blogs are like watching a movie, if you are not there from the beginning it can …

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Getting management buy-in

Posted by  Mark Schenk —May 9, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes, Collaboration

The actKM list has a discussion underway to collect stories of how people have (either successfully or otherwise) tried to get management support for their …

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Evaluating the soft stuff

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 24, 2006
Filed in Communication

Decision-makers are under increasing pressure to justify their decisions and then account for their success (or otherwise) to a variety of stakeholders. Evidence-based management (1) …

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Facilitation for engineers and scientists

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —April 19, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

It’s interesting how I’ve found myself drawn into discussion lately around the difficulties of facilitating engineers and scientists. If facilitating engineers and scientists is difficult, …

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Connecting People: How to Foster and Harness Your Organisation’s Connectors

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 14, 2006
Filed in Communication

I wrote this article with Stewart Forsyth from FX Consultants. Stewart and I have done a few projects together in New Zealand and it is …

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GAP Forum and increasing links in a social network

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 14, 2006
Filed in Communication

I was invited to attend the GAP Forum on Leveraging Networks in Business last week and caught up with some old friends like John Finnigan and …

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Tapping into the right brain through sensemaking

Posted by  Mark Schenk —April 10, 2006
Filed in Communication

In January, I described Communities of Practice as ‘the right brain of the organisation’, and Shawn recently posted about the role of sensemaking in creating …

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