The more stuff there is, the harder it is to find. David Weinberger, one of the authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto and author of the best one phrase description of the internet, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, has turned his attention to the question of how best to organise information unconstrained by physical storage. The short [...]
20% to 25% of Google searches on any given day are queries that have never been entered by anybody before – according to the Guardian, citing Udi Manber, who is a senior executive at Google and might be supposed to know. That must cumulatively be quite a long tail, even by the standards of such [...]
The production of knowledge – or of insight – is often seen as a rational and linear progression. There are various expressions of it. One widely used version is: Data -> Information -> Knowledge -> Wisdom A variant developed closer to home is: Data -> Information -> Insight -> Action The second of those is, [...]
Knowledge can only be volunteered, it cannot be conscripted We only know what we know when we need to know it We always know more than we can tell, we will always tell more than we will write down Dave Snowden – from his slide in the previous post.
Thinking about story telling reminded me of Dave Snowden. Dave is a pioneer in knowledge management, who played an inadvertent bit part in an earlier post on social network analysis – activity, betweenness and closeness, but more pertinently was one of IBM’s most unlikely consultants, using approaches he had largely developed himself based more on [...]
It’s been a while since I glanced through the posts on Slow Leadership. Lots of good stuff, but three particularly caught my eye: Occam’s razor – which basically amounts to the proposition that explanations shouldn’t be more complicated than they need to be – is applied to management by targets: Demming’s basic message was that [...]