May 2011
1 post
Why Kindles leave me cold
shiggison:
I keep seeing people with ebook readers on the tube and it looks so uninspiring. Here’s what I think you’re missing with a Kindle and why my shelves will always be full:
The weight, thickness and texture of a book is part of the story
You can’t glance at a shelf of ebooks and know which one’s most loved
Heavily broken spines are a far better review than a five-star rating
...
February 2010
2 posts
“Doing KM is not the goal. Responding to business objectives, problems, barriers,...”
– Don’t do KM - Pursue the Goal Not the Method (Gurteen Knowledge)
“The greatest disease at Microsoft is lack of sharing lessons from failure,...”
– Scott Berkun, “Microsoft and Creative Destruction”
A great analysis of the problems Microsoft faces, from one who has seen the inside view.
September 2009
1 post
August 2009
1 post
Shawn Callahan on learning from failure →
From an Anecdote post on KM Australia:
During the conference I heard a some speakers recount the meme, “we learn best from failure.” I’m not sure this is entirely true. Anecdotally I remember distantly when I read about the Ritz Carlton approach to conveying values using stories and I’m now delivering a similar approach to a client on the topic of innovation. Here...
July 2009
2 posts
“Of course, I wasn’t very much of an athlete. But even if I were, I’d...”
– Larry Prusak: http://www.laurenceprusak.com/
5 tags
Lockheed Martin's Unity
Quotes from http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/whatis/what-is-unity-lockheed-martins-implementation-of-a-social-computing-platform-wows-enterprise-20-conferees/:
The crucial question, asked over and over again this week, was addressed head-on by Unity’s designers: “What is the value of social networking in the enterprise?”
Their answer was, in the end, simple: Being able to watch what...
June 2009
1 post
Deloitte's Big Shift →
A short blog post linking to the main Big Shift material on Deloitte’s website. Looking at the long-term transformation of business, and the impact that it will have on structures and processes. Businesses have “competed away” the benefits of productivity gains.
To respond to this performance challenge, U.S. companies will need to let go of industrial- era organizational...
February 2009
3 posts
“The great promise of new connected information work technologies — such as...”
– Rob Salkowitz, Generation Blend, 26
“When I do a design project, I begin by listening carefully to you as you talk...”
– Michael Bierut, “This is My Process” (http://www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=17485)
“Many authors, including Ronald Coase and Herbert Simon, have identified the...”
– John Roberts, The Modern Firm (Oxford, 2004): 103-4
January 2009
5 posts
scottberkun.com » Success factors for program... →
Maniacally focus on building a product your customers will love.
Pound, pound, pound on the features while they are being developed all the way through the process.
Constantly ask ‘How do we know this is good?’
Perceive the reaction of others to your features.
Know others will want to have an opinion.
Recognize constraints make it hard to develop products customers will love.
...
“To treat practical (or tacit) knowledge as having a precisely definable content,...”
– Haridimos Tsoukas, “Do we really understand tacit knowledge?”
“Traditions are comforting. But comfort, I think, tends not to breed innovation....”
– John Gruber, “That He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying“
“Question everything… Question everyone in authority, and see that you get...”
– Winifred Holtby, South Riding: Epilogue
“Throughout our creative lives we have sifted through everything to select what...”
– Massimo Vignelli, The Vignelli Canon (online at http://www.vignelli.com/canon.pdf)
November 2008
1 post
“We can succeed only by concert. It is not “can any of us imagine better?” but,...”
– Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862 (via Dave Snowden)
October 2008
2 posts
Library clips :: How do wikis and blogs fit... →
“(I think) a blog should not be a solution centre, whereas a wiki is ideal. I guess a Tips and Tricks blog is OK, but “solution” is a more definitive word, so a wiki is more suitable. A blog is…
“knowledge is not a matter of getting it right but rather acquiring habits of...”
– Richard Rorty, Objectivity, relativism, and truth (1991)