Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
By using this new approach with simple participative networking tools, we go beyond achieving knowledge sharing, ie. the more static end-to-end method of knowledge store and knowledge seek. KM 2.0 generates an ecosystem where people are connected and become more autonomous in getting things done…in all we become a learning organisation. Further to this it may indeed change the way organisations are managed (management 2.0).
From aiming to achieve the KM task of extracting and distributing know-how, these same tools have taken us to even greater places of an evolution in management, and ultimately how this transparency may alter the decisions we make, and how the result of the way we use these tools may change or shape our culture.
Read the full article at www.socialmediatoday.com
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
“A recent Computerworld article, Wikis that work: Four IT departments get it right, provides early adopters success stories at Enel, ShoreBank, NYK, and SAP. The first two used Traction Team Page, NYK used Atlassian’s Confluence and the SAP example did not mention a vendor. This is a comprehensive article that goes into good detail on each example. I recommend looking at the complete coverage.”
Read the full article at billives.typepad.com
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Some companies have a much better appreciation of how to apply Web 2.0 than others. The projects described here have been selected to represent the diversity of innovations that fit under that broad heading. Some, such as Dell and PlusNet, show companies using Web 2.0 tools to find out how they can serve their customers better. Others, like Wachovia Bank and Best Buy, demonstrate the ability of Web 2.0 tools to help organisations work together better, document their implicit knowledge and even improve social cohesion.
But every example shows why it is imperative for enterprise IT departments to reach an understanding of Web 2.0, from both a technical and social perspective. Indeed, the advent of Web 2.0 gives IT a unique opportunity to become more innovative, more creative and a more valuable part of business. By enabling collaboration and fostering community, they can inject major value to the activities of business units as diverse as marketing, customer service and business development.
Read the full article at www.information-age.com
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
“Today, every larger company has locations spread geographically, and even if it is the same company, usually applying the same business rules, one will find that some of these remote locations are more successful than others.”
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Laura Fitton from Pistachio relayed this short business use case story for Twitter written by Gary Koelling of Best Buy and Blue Shirt Nation fame.
Microblogging in a single room is the behaviour you’ll see at conferences nowadays, but I was thrilled to discover a company actually practicing this to manage all their meetings and presentations.
Whether you are 5 or 500 people, the ability to instantaneously share ideas and conversations without disrupting presentations almost sounds too wild to one day become common practice. My first impression is however that this could be slightly overkill for smaller groups/companies. Also the fewer the people, the closer the speaker and therefore the more potentially disturbing could microblogging become.
Should critical mass therefore be a requisit? Could we apply the same to web conference meetings and training sessions to dynamically gather feedback? Next step is now to convince the boss to try this out 
Read the full article at pistachioconsulting.com
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Oliver Young, an analyst at Forrester Research, stated that despite there being a lot of buzz about the consumer market for web 2.0 applications, “the greatest opportunity today for vendors is in the business-to-business collaboration space”.
The trends is definitely on social networks and mashups. What about the B2B collaboration spaces. Tools like basecamp started early by providing a simple SaaS solution where one can manage projects with their clients. This trends is clearly growing to bigger needs in enterprises. More than project management, knowledge management can be done with your clients as well.
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
This article from Harvard Business Publishing looks at the challenges facing boardrooms across the world in the face of the economic crisis. From creating value to harnessing network effects, the core of the article speaks to those pushing Enterprise 2.0 and KM 2.0 as well as senior management.
“How should boardrooms respond to the macro crisis? Is it just a case of recession-as-usual: budget-paring, personnel-slashing, and portfolio-trimming?
Not a chance. The tactics of recession-as-usual are neither necessary nor sufficient for firms to weather the global economic superstorm - because it’s no ordinary squall, but a once-in-a-lifetime gale ripping up the very foundations of the global economic order. Rather, the macro crisis requires decision makers to confront fundamental transformation on three levels.”
Read the full article at discussionleader.hbsp.com
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Another one from the science scene. Hershey Research have launched a social networking service for it’s researchers to connect with each other and those outside of the company.
“The goal is to allow researchers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from around the world to collaborate and, hopefully, entice them to develop and manufacture products at the Hershey Center for Applied Research in Derry Twp.
The online social network is called “KnowledgeMesh” and is open to anyone. It includes an array of social networking features, enabling users to connect with people with similar interests and participate in on-line communities related to lifesciences and biotechnology.”
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Back in June 2008 GlaxoSmithKline the world’s second largest drug maker, effectively gave away $millions(?) worth of research data as a donation to open source drug discovery.
Mainly ignored by the mainstream media at first, this massive move by a big player for the pharma industry signals a change in how these large companies are viewing the way they handle and share knowledge to boost the the collaborative battle against disease.
A spokesperson from GSK said “In turn, we hope this data will further drive the identification of predictive biomarkers and lead to shorter, more directed clinical trials allowing us to bring drugs more quickly to patients who need them.”
Billions of dollars and who knows how many years worth of data are locked up in pharmaceutical companies. This consists of failed research, discontinued research, acquired data (from take overs and mergers) and dark data (the data that doesn’t need to get reported). This is an encouraging move by a respected pharma giant and we’ll be keeping a close eye on industry to see what happens next….
Read the full article at: http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/06/25/gsk-cabig-give-away-cancer-data-to-speed-research/
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
A thought-provoking post on how the structured KM approach will disappear to the benefit of Social Media, and how Gen X will cede its unremembered place to the creativity of the Millenials (Gen Y).
“Here’s what’s going on: KM and SM look very similar on the surface, but are actually radically different at multiple levels, both cultural and technical, and are locked in an undeclared cultural war for the soul of Enterprise 2.0. And the most hilarious part is that most of the combatants don’t even realize they are in a war. They think they are loosely-aligned and working towards the same ends, with some minor differences of emphasis. So let me tell you about this war and how it is shaping up.”
Read the full article at www.enterprise2blog.com
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