“Knowledge Is Power” or Is It “Knowledge Shared Is Power”? – Preparing the Way for the Baby Boomer Generation

Earlier on today Dennis McDonald pointed me to a recent weblog post he created around the subject of An Insurance Company CIO Talks About the "Baby Boomer IT Brain Drain" where he is actually discussing the growing problem that most IT companies will be facing over the next few months when the baby boomers generation … Continue reading “Knowledge Is Power” or Is It “Knowledge Shared Is Power”? – Preparing the Way for the Baby Boomer Generation

Management Can Kill a Community of Practice – So What Can It Do to Help Out?

Over at Anecdote, Mark Schenk shared a couple of days ago a terrific story about how management, at whatever the level, can be very harming to communities of practice if they would try to control them pretty much in the same way that teams, business units or organisations get controlled at the moment in most … Continue reading Management Can Kill a Community of Practice – So What Can It Do to Help Out?

Follow up!: Social Network Tools and Their Business Application: Blogs, Podcasting, Instant Messaging, RSS and Wikis – London – September 2006

If you would remember, a few weeks back I created a weblog post over here where I was mentioning a very interesting conference event that would be taking place later on this year in September in London around the subject of Social Network Tools and Their Business Application: Blogs, Podcasting, Instant Messaging, RSS and Wikis. … Continue reading Follow up!: Social Network Tools and Their Business Application: Blogs, Podcasting, Instant Messaging, RSS and Wikis – London – September 2006