September 2003 archives

September 8, 2003 by Patti

SNA talks coming up

Sam Marshall, who practices SNA (and other forms of “intellectual capital punishment”) at Unilever got in touch following my AOK tour. He’s giving talks on his work at a couple of conferences coming up. Look for him if you have the chance. Dates and details are on the aforementioned blog site. Yours truly is co-presenting [...]

September 7, 2003 by Patti

The Gouge

My brother is a naval Commander, from whom I get occasional insights into how knowledge management plays out in the Navy. On a recent family web site posting, he used the word “gouge,” as in the “latest gouge from Tim (our brother) in Iraq.” Later that same day I was speaking with a client who [...]

September 7, 2003 by Patti

McGee’s Musings

Very thought-provoking article in McGee’s Musings: From Managing knowledge to coaching knowledge workers. He suggests that we need to approach the “KM” problem from the point of view of knowledge workers — and resist the temptation to propose standard solution schema in consulting. I couldn’t agree more. It is difficult, I think, to operate this [...]

September 5, 2003 by Patti

Mindsets

My friend Karl just sent me a notice about the latest mindset list from Beloit College. This is an annual list, and the older I get the more painful it is to read. He sends it to me because Beloit is my alma mater (I actually usually get it from several people who know that [...]

September 3, 2003 by Patti

ISNAE

The Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy is in launch mode, with its first event coming up next week in Palo Alto. I received an email a few weeks ago from one of the founders, Don Steiny, requesting a conversation about ways to collaborate. It’s exciting to see this type of activity, as [...]