I actually like saying people are lazy mainly because I don't use lazy in anegative context. I spent 20 years also being an engineer and it is wellknown in the engineering field that "lazy" engineers

Thanks for the comment. In short I would say that culture trumps strategy (and tactics) every time. That is: every organization has a "culture" - and it is an extraordinarily powerful force. I'm not

Thanks for commenting. And I think you're absolutely right - there is a lot tied up in "people are lazy". A fuller statement might be to say that people are not lazy so much as they are "a

Hi Katharine, This is quite an extensive list. Great effort. You can get a start on the taxonomy by tagging the items. You may want to check out SeToolbelt (http://www.setoolbelt.org/) that is also

Hi Jack and Gordon, I think the thing that most people forget about organisations is that most of them are pretty unnatural. We mash together a whole of people with little in common except their

Fun article, Gordon. Thanks for writing it. As far as point #1, it seems like there are a lot of ideas tied up in this relatively "simple" statement. The change management world has been having this

I did agree – but I also think it is a cop-out to generalise. If we average it all out I agree people will follow the path of least resistance – Is that lazy or just efficient. I also believe

I recently read Stewart Thornhill's article "Ten dirty little secrets of successful entrepreneurs" from the Ivey School of Business. I thought many of them, with some adaptation, could apply to KM

> So my questions are: Does the term "Big Data" mean anything to you? And does it have anything to do with knowledge management? Yes and Yes and for more see We don’t need more data scientists —

Matt: With regard to "bid data" and KM, I share your consternation and confusion. Using the term data, for example, conjures for me flowchart symbols for databases, or a SQL Server Admin interface.

I think Matt and Stephen have hit on exactly the right points (first and foremost: what is the business value? Secondly that social networking platforms can - although they are tricky - can have some

Hi Andre, I agree with Matt. The standard principles of work apply: (a) if it's not valued, it won't be done (anything that is mere lip service will be rapidly detected) (b) people will do the

Andre, Can you tell us which industry this is and what the workers do? How many of them are there? What is the level of staff turnover like? Do they keep notes already? (I'm guessing from your

Hi, Over the last 18 months, I've been unable to avoid the phrase 'big data". It's a buzz term that covers a lot of different activities and tools. It's vague but it's not meaningless and I'm

They would like to enable their employees to capture personal insights and valuable experiences which would normally be forgotten or lost when the employee leaves the company. OneNote is one of the

My first reaction is to ask what is meant by personal knowledge management. There are a variety of answers to the question based on what is meant by personal knowledge management. For instance, part

How, actually, are you defining "Personal Knowledge Management"? What's in scope? Peter Dorfman Lebanon, NJ

My first reaction is that I can't think of much "personal" about SharePoint, but there are some possibilities if you can hook intelligently into Outlook (where people spend FAR too much of their

I'm in the process of validating a KM success model that will satisfy thebelow question (at least in my mind it does) but it is a good question and oneI've been working on for a few years, even

I'm working on developing a Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) solution for a potential client. They're a Microsoft shop and want to leverage SharePoint 2010 and other MS tools (OneNote, etc.).