KM that works — ASAP for Implementation roadmap updates

A quick KM win anecdote and kudos to my team.  The director who leads our methodology and enablement team drove a simple, but effective, effort to incorporate the conversation from our internal social media into our external-facing methodologies.  A new set of accelerators - samples, templates, and white papers - was published based on frequency analysis of [...]

Gestión del conocimiento para los niños

Lo siento, Miguel, me olvidé de este Powerpoint…

Knowledge Management for Kids

I had forgotten about these slides from our project debriefing tool and process rollout.  Just in time for summer vacation, here is a beach-related lesson learned from my son…

Sentiment analysis and project debriefs/lessons learned

This post by Giles Palmer at Brandwatch (here) hits on something I’d like to try with our increasing volume of project debriefs.  We’ve done a couple of analyses of project success and trouble factors (I’ve posted on them a number of times, especially here, here, and here), but I’d like to take it to the [...]

How this post (and the Internet) are rewiring your brain

Nicholas Carr has an on-point Atlantic essay for we bloggers (here).  While I think that the copy editor over-reached with the headline, there’s a lot of grist for the mill.  I especially relate to some of his struggles with concentration while reading books:
My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the [...]

Leadership Failure in Complex Initiatives

Extending a recent theme — leading and learning in complex initiatives — I’ve just started looking at a book on The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations.  Many of the conclusions and insight reflect some earlier posts (collected here).  This post may contain my personal record for categories/tags, I guess the [...]

Engaging middle management in “Enterprise 2.0″

Following up on an earlier post on Web 2.0 blockers (here), I’ll forward some block “busting” suggestions from that Clint Boulton report on Enterprise 2.0 (here). 
Middle managers in their ’50s will likely not have been as exposed to computers and their corresponding technologies….   [T]he way older generations adopt the tools is different.  For example, a [...]

Facing Reality, “Ground Truth,” etc.

One of the best aspects of Graham Durant-Law’s blog (here) is his willingness to “tell on himself” and the KM profession.  When recalling an interview he gave to a KM researcher, he quotes from an old David Snowden post (here) to good effect:
I have sat in many a conference listening to a presentation from a [...]

Middle management blocking blogs, wikis, syndication

Clint Boulton reports on an Enterprise 2.0 panel that tackled one of the most frustrating barriers to collaboration adoption — middle managers (here). 
Middle management is one of the key obstacles to the adoption of user-generated content tools such as blogs, wikis and RSS feeds in businesses…[per Sean Dennehy from the CIA:] ”They’re not onboard yet. They’re not [...]

Links — basic and advanced PM Glossaries

Developing a common vocabulary should be a key early milestone for any PMO initiative.  To that end, here are a couple of links that might help inspire the lexically-challenged among us:
Elizabeth at The Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects links to Tom Mochal’s short glossary of key PM terms at TechRepublic (here, PDF here).  It’s a one-pager of [...]