Personal Information Lifecycle Managemenet
My company is currently re-launching its knowledge management environment, so I thought it would be useful to re-think my requirements from a personal and then (in another blog post) from a team/project perspective. The diagram on the left represents a simplified view of the personal information management lifecycle and I will step through each phase looking at the commodity tools that I think all knowledge workers should have, by right, in todays world. Then I will discuss some of the more advanced tools that may only be applicable to certain high value processes or industry segments. First off I make no apologies for the simple model I have chosen to use. More complete lifecycles have been modelled, for example this one by David Pollard which is a more comprehensive view of the creative process, and if you want to dig deeper go read his work as it’s better than mine! However I wanted something that was visually simple and easy for people to relate to.
I will be testing my companies project against the content of this document, it should be interesting!
First off lets deal with the coloured groups, the green hexagons (subscribe, search and discuss) are ongoing activities …
As readers of my blog know I suffer from Adult Onset Stills, a rare disease that affects 1 in about 200,000 people. Since my last major flare about 13 months ago a combination of Steroids and Immune System Suppresents have managed to get the primary inflammation under control leaving me with chronic pain and fatigue which varies from day to day. I cope pretty well with this by working from home etc, and its all well documented in this blog.
The graph shows the daily symptom levels for the last 6 months. However progress has been made as follows:
