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Saturday, March 20, 2010
That is, we need not just “resources” as things to extract, but the processes that reproduce these resources, because we have also to eat and drink and dress tomorrow and for generations to come. Those who have secular knowledge on how to preserve it, to maintain its life while reproducing theirs, or the government? Massimo de Angelis report on the Yasuni’s struggle against petroleum extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon region, based and inspired by their “Mother Earth” related deity Pochamama, clearly discusses the same links we discuss in our section on neotraditional economics, and why these linkages between pre-industrial and post-industrial thinking and practices are important, see here for details.
 
Friday, March 19, 2010
Abstract “Since the direct production process is the one that defines distribution, the single most important innate advantage of P2P production is that it ensures, on a long term and on a stable basis, a fairer and more equal distribution of wealth. P2P production (or just peer production) overthrows the established notion of economic thinking that humans tackle their production processes either as employees, following the orders of their superiors, or as individual producers in markets. This article by George Papanikolaou appeared in a special issue of the Greek bi-lingual Re-Public magazine, Issue on P2P Energy, 2009
 
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Dynamic BPM and Business Process Networks emerging as keys to worker productivity A recent release from Gartner Inc reveals five business process management predictions that align beautifully with the direction of the Value Network Insights Enterprise Edition. Business Process Management (BPM) is a management discipline that treats processes as assets that directly contribute to organisational performance. See Original Article) “As organisations continue to embrace BPM to improve business performance during challenging times, this quest is pushing BPM beyond
 

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Funny enough, that has been like that for quite a while, having gotten started around 2001, when I was first getting exposed to Knowledge Management (KM or Knowledge Sharing, whatever you would prefer) as time and time again I kept bumping into multiple knowledge managers wanting to define it. 34; Knowledge management refers to strategies and structures for maximizing the return on intellectual and information resources. Most of the folks out there who know me, and have been following this blog for a while, have probably realised by now how much I dislike definitions, and putting labels on things, in general.
We need more process centric methods in enterprise social computing to make way for the acceptance of more opportunistic tools such as social networks. The above paper is related to another article, Beyond predictable workflows: Enhancing productivity in artful business processes , which also explains the two ends of the specturum, using email for collaborative activities is clunky and not contextual, and using a centralised workflow system is to rigid and is not flexible to encompass the intricate flavours of all situations, there is calling to allow room for “artful processes
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The thing that caught me about this idea of Tension is often between those looking for formal process vs. But there is a direct connection to the tension topic in the final paragraph that talks about a Mike Gotta definition of process and practice. Process is "how work should be done." I wrote about eating or fishing last week, and about the same time Bill Ives posted Is there Tension in Enterprise Collaboration (referencing Bruce Lewin's detailed thoughts in The Tension in Collaboration ). those that want it loose and human.
Q1: why didn’t you study the non bloggers among knowledge workers? Betty Collins of t U of Twente asks t promovendus why many knowledge workers are not passionate bloggers? Q2: blogging as knowledge creation; how do you pass the scientific test? Wouters of Erasmus This is something I wanted to blog for a while, but – hey – it’s better late than never :) I
Dave Snowden has updated his principles on “Rendering Knowledge” on  Cognitive Edge   These are worth reblogging. What is the heat of knowledge sharing? Knowledge can only be volunteered it cannot be conscripted. You can’t make someone share their I encourage you to go in and read the full post for all the context.
For a good number of years, both Knowledge Management and Learning have always been associated with one another and overlapping quite a bit. Plenty of organisations are eventually using terms like Learning & Knowledge to refer to that process of knowledge sharing and collaborating; and, in a way, with the emergence of social software within the corporate environment, I am sure we will be seeing both disciplines come together even more! To that extent, and in order to spark further conversations on the topic, while I get to finalise my thoughts on that very same subject, I thought I would share with you folks a couple of interesting links over here, rather quick, to perhaps come back to it at a later time.
If you have been following this blog for a while, you would know how my professional background comes from various different areas associated for quite some time now with Knowledge Management, in particular, traditional Knowledge Management: Collaboration, Community Building, Learning, etc. One of them, perhaps one of the most powerful and traditional ones, was IBM ’s Global Business Services ‘ Learning and Knowledge . Yes, I am one of those folks who eventually worked for several different projects, throughout the years, dealing with deploying successfully specific KM and community building programs for various business units.
help with process failure, and The nature of knowledge work is that we deal with uncertainty and unique situations, we can only document so many official processes/procedures; often we need to bend these processes and use our thinking and conversation to respond or get things done on the fly. What’s happening is that wikis are actually replacing a process, they are becoming a new way to do group work. A while ago I posted that size doesn’t matter when it comes to effective communities. You don’t need a lot of members to make a community
Since 1999, my work has been related to Knowledge Management (KM). Already then, KM was a term that was not well recognised; at the time, we did not label our KM-related consulting services with Knowledge Management. Today I am holding an official position in Knowledge Management, still many people do not grasp the term and have a clear understanding of it. “Knowledge We welcome Tim Wieringa as a guest blogger to Green Chameleon. Since 8220;Knowledge Management” seems to be fuzzy and not specific enough; it does not refer to daily (work) life topics.