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Bridging analytic and managerial cultures, Part 2

Suppose you buy the notion that management is fundamentally an oral culture and analytics a literate one (see Part 1). How does that influence how you manage analytics? How can you take full advantage of technology?
In an oral culture, what you can think is limited to what you can remember and tell–without visual aids. Oral [...]

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Bridging analytic and management cultures, Part 1

Have you ever wondered what’s behind the conflict between geeks and suits? Sure, they think differently, but what, exactly, does that mean? A Jesuit priest who passed away in 2003 at the age of 90 may hold one interesting clue.
Walter Ong published a slim volume in 1982 titled "Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing [...]

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Fun with constraints, knowledge, and design

Paula Thornton, my friend and co-blogger at FASTforward, tweeted the following this morning

which reminded me of a little constrained exercise I did back in February. That exercise started with this tweet

and a blog post that generated some fun discussion.
What I didn’t do was publish the final list of C-words that were ultimately [...]

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More on management and messiness – video interview from FASTforward’09

Joshua-Michéle Ross did an excellent set of interviews at last week’s FASTforward’09 conference. We talked some more about the challenges of managing innovation. Here’s the video for those of you who might be interested.
FASTforward’09: Jim McGee, Managing Director of New Shoreham Consulting
by Joshua-Michéle Ross
February 11, 2009 at 11:15 am · Filed under FASTforward’09, FFC09 [...]

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Management and messiness

Image via Wikipedia

[Cross posted at FASTforward blog]
I’ve been mulling over Clay Shirky’s remarks yesterday at FASTforward09. The bookends to his talk hint at some key challenges to managers contemplating their entry into the world of social media and Enterprise 2.0. Clay’s opening five word summary of Enterprise 2.0 is simply “group action just got easier.” [...]

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JP Rangaswami on KM … “Clear, Transparent, Searchable, Archivable, Retrievable”

This has been lurking in my RSS aggregator for quite a while, courtesy of Jon Husband. There is really a lot of highly condensed insight in this post.
Thanks to JP Rangaswami for distilling social computing (in the context of work) to an essence.
From his post “Facebook and the Enterprise, Part 5: Knowledge Management“.
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“More and more, [...]

Technology Leaders Association presentation

I’m presenting today to the Technology Leaders Association meeting in Chicago on the topic of “Technology for Us.” I’ve uploaded my slides to Slideshare.
 
Technology for Us – Tech Leaders Association
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: knowledge-work socialmedia)

 
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links for 2008-10-01

The Contribution Revolution: Letting Volunteers Build Your Business – An excellent executive introduction to the business implications of social media and user generated content by Scott Cook, CEO of Intuit. Nothing terribly new here if you’ve been paying attention to the social media environment at all. On the other hand it summarizes and packages the [...]

links for 2008-09-24

ChiefTech: Aligning business needs to SharePoint capabilities
A thoughtful analysis of the potential limits of SharePoint as a platform for collaboration in enterprises. I suspect that SharePoint is becoming the "safe" choice for a lot of organizations interested in elements of social networking and Enterprise 2.0. This post offers some insights into the risks of that [...]

links for 2008-09-17

I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You – Clive Thompson – NYTimes.com
This has been pointed to from multiple sources I trust. It's something I need to get to before too long
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Presentation Zen: Is education killing creativity?
An interview with Ken Robinson on education and creativity. A useful supplement to his TED talks
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