Inquiry and learning into social networks, organizational network analysis, and the relationships among people and systems in complex organizations and networks.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2003 My Google Number Judith Meskill's comment on the reading list prompted me to go to her site, where I discovered that she has made a direct connection with Valdis Krebs, which I apparently had a hand in.
(0) comments Multiples of One Conference | November 7-8, 2003 The 2nd annual Multiples of One Conference will be in Cambridge, MA, USA November 9/10. I didn't attend the first, but then I didn't know Kate Ehrlich then.
"This year we ask the question: In a networked society what is the role of the individual? How can an individual-whether alone or with others-make meaningful contributions to the creation of new products and services, to the work environment, and to society? When faced with challenges and constraints do we fall back on what is comfortable or do we embrace change?
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I just got back from an intense week in New York City, certifying as a Cynefin consultant. Very diverse set of people, with US-based consultants definitely in the minority. It is still "emerging" as a methodology, but many of the components of the methodology have become tacit and transferable.
On Thursday, David Snowden returned from Washington DC, and held up a copy of a center-fold advertisement by IBM in the Wall Street Journal for Tuesday, 9/23. Very laid back photo of David, headline: "What Bartleby the Scrivener can tell you about Bob the sales guy." Although there are still a number of IBM politics (which David relishes, I think), it is apparent that there are adherents in IBM of shifting at least some of the business consulting framework to thinking along the lines of complexity, narrative collection, and descriptive self-awareness.
David Gurteen has a good collection of Cynefin writings on his web site. (0) comments
I attended a talk by Dr. Daniel Blass at the Harvard Business School on Friday. A purely academic talk, one of those in which I find that things that I have taken for granted as generally true have not yet been proven. Colleagues from the Gennova Group got together to 'debrief' afterward and that was where the learning happened.
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It's been a while since I looked at the my reading list on social networks, so I've done that today. I especially wanted to mention it because somehow it took me a while to find my way to Networks in the Knowledge Economy, a great collection of papers on social network theory and research. It's edited by Lisa Sasson, Rob Cross, and Andrew Parker. It includes the various articles that Rob and Andrew have published, along with some other classics, like Mark Granovetter's "Strength of Weak Ties." (I was looking all over the web for a copy of it!)
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Sam Marshall, who practices SNA (and other forms of "intellectual capital punishment") at Unilever got in touch following my AOK tour. He's giving talks on his work at a couple of conferences coming up. Look for him if you have the chance. Dates and details are on the aforementioned blog site.
Yours truly is co-presenting this year at KMWorld with Eric Lesser, of IBM (Institute for Business Value). Eric, Rob Cross (who is also speaking), and I will hosting a "birds of a feather" on SNA at KMWorld. (That's in Santa Clara, October 14-16; all the SNA topics are on Wednesday, the 15th). Please come if you can! (0) comments
My brother is a naval Commander, from whom I get occasional insights into how knowledge management plays out in the Navy. On a recent family web site posting, he used the word "gouge," as in the "latest gouge from Tim (our brother) in Iraq." Later that same day I was speaking with a client who used the word "gouge" as something that he wanted for a deliverable.
I have had a number of conversations with this client about the shift from contexted, written research papers to "briefings" (powerpoint slides, current being scourged by Edward Tufte).
Do gouges represent yet another step in the slide away from communications that contain context and meaning? Or are they a new form that provides information and context -- brevity without blabber? (0) comments McGee's Musings Very thought-provoking article in McGee's Musings: From Managing knowledge to coaching knowledge workers. He suggests that we need to approach the "KM" problem from the point of view of knowledge workers -- and resist the temptation to propose standard solution schema in consulting. I couldn't agree more.
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My friend Karl just sent me a notice about the latest mindset list from Beloit College. This is an annual list, and the older I get the more painful it is to read. He sends it to me because Beloit is my alma mater (I actually usually get it from several people who know that I went to Beloit).
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The Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy is in launch mode, with its first event coming up next week in Palo Alto. I received an email a few weeks ago from one of the founders, Don Steiny, requesting a conversation about ways to collaborate. It's exciting to see this type of activity, as social network analysis and the understanding of social networks gets more and more into economic and political thought. posted by Patti | permalink (click to comment)(0) comments
The AOK dialogues prompted a good dialogue about social network analysis. Martin Dugage blogged about the cultural problems of a survey-based analysis. He also brought up the question of electronically-collected data (most advisable for very large populations) and the privacy issues in conducting surveys and requesting people to "name names."
Views exchanged, minds opened (including mine). (0) comments
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