Companies like mine would like to think that there are only a handful of work styles that they need to support and that they can easily categorise the way people work. Normally this is achieved using a classification that is focused on the type of work that a person does,...
I’ve always been a huge advocate of the need for enterprises to focus on Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) before they even consider enterprise knowledge management. Enterprise Knowledge Management just being a thin skim of services that enable discovery of information that’s promoted from PKM. That promotion can be very light...
This post is the third in a series about my working life I minimise the hours I work because that allows me to maximise the time I spend moving around, and done right it reduces stress and provides me with enough motivation to invest in maintaining a healthy diet, stretching,...
This post is the fourth in a series about my working life I’ve worked with people to improve their productivity for over 20 years and some of that has hopefully rubbed off on my own working practice. There’s no universal productivity practice though, what’s best for one person will be...
Each day this week while on Holiday with Steph in Filey I’m planning to write a post covering a different element of my working life. I’ve carefully designed this life so as to maximise my impact and productivity with the lowest levels of stress and minimal working hours. Whilst some...
I’m working on some ‘what I’ve learned in the last 10 years’ posts this month. They draw on the long history of my personal knowledge management (PKM) archive, but unfortunately it’s decayed even faster than my aging brain. All the systems that I’ve used at work for personal knowledge management...
Steve over on the Reflexions blog try’s to answer the question Does Corporate Failure = PKM? posed by Nick Milton and I must admit I find myself agreeing with Steve, who has a few points of agreement with Nick. That is up until the point where Nick is quoted as...
Every year or so I hear Microsoft talking about Internet Search and implying that Google Search is nothing compared to what Microsoft has in store for us. Unfortunately what seems to be delivered is useful, but incremental. I heard about Wolfram Alpha today, and it the first time for years...
Dave Pollard has a typically excellent post contrasting Knowledge Management 1.0 (which I remember being pushed at me, but thankfully resisted) and KM 2.0 that’s been inspired by the Internet and web 2. I have two thoughts worth noting: Things that work at Internet scale don’t always translate to the...
In a thought provoking post Mark points out: There are now more than 20,000 laws world-wide that regulate how companies must protect, retain, and secure information. These laws are often complicated, and sometimes even contradictory. These rules often must be applied to all data types regardless of the application. In...