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Why Knowledge Management Didn’t Save General Motors: Addressing Complex Issues By Convening Conversation

Conversation Matters

In the summer of 2009 GM filed for bankruptcy. GM was brought down by a flawed strategy, but an organization’s strategy is clearly a product of the knowledge that exists within its walls. The knowledge existed within GM to develop a more competitive strategy. Why didn’t KM save General Motors?

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Potentiation: Neurology and Knowledge Management

Conversation Matters

Of course, it’s all a good deal more complex since that lone neuron is also exciting lots of other neurons and even turning some off – but for the purpose of thinking about how it impacts knowledge, lets stay simple. Each time the pathway is excited it becomes more potentiated, that is, more accessible the next time.

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McAfee on Widening the Flow

Transparent Office

In the old world of emails and knowledge management systems, our tools and processes force a rigid distinction between "doing your job" (i.e., in-the-flow activities, usually in email) and "giving back to the organization" (above-the-flow contributions to a knowledge management system).

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Do We Really Need So Many Kinds of Social Media?

Conversation Matters

I recently spoke at the 2009 Army Knowledge Management Conference. The sixty Battle Command Knowledge System (BCKS) Professional forums that have been so successful. My preliminary list of the ways of engaging knowledge include: • Seeking/providing Authoritative Knowledge. Exchanging Knowledge Sources.

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The Bamboo Project Blog: Blogging for Learning

The Bamboo Project Blog

Arecent study by the Educause Center for Applied Research, for example,suggests that the vast majority of students who use course-managementsystems do so simply to gain access to course materials and theirgrades. For example I reflect with patterns, colors and textures - which yield insight. But insight is not necessarily the goal.

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Where Knowledge Management Has Been and Where It Is Going- Part Three

Conversation Matters

In this three part series I‘ve classified the evolving landscape of knowledge management into three categories. The first category is Leveraging Explicit Knowledge and is about capturing documented knowledge and building it into a collection - connecting people to content. Leveraging Collective Knowledge.

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The Bamboo Project Blog: My Personal Learning Environment

The Bamboo Project Blog

For example, Ive been working on a "Best of Bamboo" project where Im re-organizing some of my blog posts here into different different chunks. When I was learning about blogging, for example, then I started a blog (it was an art blog, so it was less professionally risky for me, too). Ive been using it in two ways.