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Re: Amazon Ratings - One Thumb Down #ratings #prediction-markets

Hi All. I have to be careful in relating this story because it may involve people you may know, even though they are not members of this group. But the story is significant to this

By Jerry Ash <jash@...> · #21 ·

Re: Amazon Ratings - One Thumb Down #ratings #prediction-markets

We have employed a similar approach as Mark's. Although perhaps for a different reason up front. Because our IC library may still be small in comparison to most of yours, we don't have the variety of

By Bettenhausen, Richard <richard.bettenhausen@...> · #22 ·

"Download me!" she moaned #metrics

On the topic of inferring the value of a document from the number of downloads, I would like to share this true story. When I started my first online community, devoted to meeting the needs of

By Bruce Karney <bkarney@...> · #23 ·

Amazon Ratings - One Thumb Down #ratings #prediction-markets

Hi -- Another issue to add to the many concerning rating and ranking is that the folks leading these initiatives often cannot articulate what the business outcomes are. That's a problem. Anecdotal

By John Maloney <jtmalone@...> · #24 ·

Re: Amazon Ratings - One Thumb Down #ratings #prediction-markets

You have a lot more confidence in markets than I do ____________________ Dave Snowden Founder, The Cynefin Centre snowded@... www.cynefin.net +44 7795 437 293 Rowan Cottage 51

By Dave Snowden <snowded@...> · #25 ·

Amazon Ratings - One Thumb Down #ratings #prediction-markets

Hi Dave -- It is not a matter of confidence, rather of outcomes. We've all been trained to listen to experts, pundits and highly credentialed people. Oh, and there are those polls and polling that

By J Maloney \(jheuristic\) <jtmalone@...> · #26 ·

Possible 5th Book for Stan's List #books

Hi Stan, I really liked your 2-pager on KM. It really packs a lot of content into a small space. A book I read recently that I think is really quite good about setting up and leading COPs is

By Bruce Karney <bkarney@...> · #27 ·

Re: Possible 5th Book for Stan's List #books

The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents is confidential, may be privileged, and is intended solely for the person and/or entity to whom it is addressed (i.e. those

By dianna.wiggins@... · #28 ·

Re: Possible 5th Book for Stan's List #books

>I noticed when Stan sent out his note the other day thatthe link on the website to his material was not working. Has that been fixed? The link on the posted version is stillbad, but it will

By Garfield, Stan <stanley.garfield@...> · #29 ·

Re: Possible 5th Book for Stan's List #books

The link in the version posted by Chrysalis International has now been fixed. Also, I added more books, periodicals, blogs, and web sites to the list, and the updated version has been posted at

By StanGarfield <stanley.garfield@...> · #30 ·

Employee-created Company Values #culture #vision

During Raj's presentation today when he talked about the creation of the CLASS company values, I was reminded of a similar process that took place early in Intuit's history. See

By Bruce Karney <bkarney@...> · #31 ·

Re: Employee-created Company Values #culture #vision

Thanks Bruce -- you're right, there do appear to be similarities, including headcount and approach. Also, the comment from Steve Denning was interesting about moving towards managing values. I

By Raj Datta <rajd@...> · #32 ·

February 2006 SIKM Call: Raj Datta - Building a Knowledge Culture #monthly-call #culture

On Tuesday we held our 9th monthly call. Here is a summary. Attendees Raj Datta, MindTree Steve Denning Stan Garfield, HP Andrew Gent, HP Bruce Karney, Marsh Michael Koffman Doug Madgic,

By Stan Garfield <stangarfield@...> · #33 · Edited

Re: Employee-created Company Values #culture #vision

Well just to be a disruptive element The concept that you go from values, to beliefs to mental models to behaviour is linear, assumes cause and effect relationships and in no way reflects what we now

By David Snowden <snowded@...> · #35 ·

SNA and "Clout Rank Algorithm" #SNA-ONA-VNA

The recent post about SNA at Braintrust spurred this train of though. Many of us have heard about Google's Page Rank Algorithm. It has grown in complexity over time, but the basic idea has been

By Bruce Karney <bkarney@...> · #34 ·

Re: Employee-created Company Values #culture #vision

Great disruption Dave -- thanks for pointing thisout. I didn't mean to trivialize things and make them sound linearand mechanistic, and may have given that impression in the email, now that Ilook at

By Raj Datta <rajd@...> · #36 ·

Re: Employee-created Company Values #culture #vision

Dave While I would agree about the non-linearity ofrelationships involved, I'm less confident about the apparently sharpdistinction you seem to draw between "stored patterns of experience"

By Steve Denning · #37 ·

Re: Employee-created Company Values #culture #vision

interesting point, but I don't see how one can have an experience of a value, values I think arise from multiple interactions between experiences and are influenced strongly by stories (which

By David Snowden <snowded@...> · #38 ·

Re: Employee-created Company Values #culture #vision

I think communication through metaphor has great value (and use it). I also think its more valuable than examples. Examples lead to immitation, metaphor to applying a new concept to ones unique

By David Snowden <snowded@...> · #39 ·

Re: SNA and "Clout Rank Algorithm" #SNA-ONA-VNA

Is there a Clout Rank in SNA? Yes. Depending on which SNA camp you follow, it's viewed a few different ways, but you can very quickly spot the highly connected people (hubs). This level of

By Jack Vinson <jackvinson@...> · #40 ·

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