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10 Questions to Determine Innovation Style [Date Added :09/03/2010]
Whether accidental or intentional, all enterprises drive innovation with an organization model that has significant consequences for participation, results, breakthrough improvements or even initiativ...
Google Is From Mars; Facebook From Venus [Date Added :08/31/2010]
A developer who has worked at both Google and Facebook has some interesting observations regarding differences in their organizational cultures. David Braginsky, who worked as a developer at Google...
Is Social Media Out of Control at Work? [Date Added :08/20/2010]
Social media, by its very nature, is designed to be as inclusive as possible. But when an organization implements social media, it also makes information - possibly sensitive information - available t...
If Only BP Knew Now What it Knew Then [Date Added :08/16/2010]
Tom Davenport has some interesting insights into BP and knowledge management. He asks the basic question: BP's knowledge management strategy was considered best practice in the 1990s, so why the Gulf ...
Keys for Website Social Media [Date Added :08/13/2010]
Here is a best practice guide for leveraging the popularity of social media to drive targeted traffic to your website: 1. The website must be the core of the social media strategy. Leveraging the p...
Creating An Enterprise Collaboration Strategy [Date Added :08/12/2010]
Many organizations are planning or are already in the middle of deploying collaboration technology to their global organization. A solid collaboration strategy encompasses three key things: 1. Defi...
Sustaining Communities of Practice [Date Added :08/03/2010]
As an increasing number of Baby Boomers approach retirement, companies are looking for ways to transfer their expertise to other employees. Some companies, particularly those with geographically dispe...
Managing the Visibility of Knowledge Work [Date Added :07/12/2010]
Before the advent of the digital working environment, knowledge work used to generate a variety of markers and visible 'sign posts.' That visibility was important in several ways that weren't evident ...
Singapore e-Government Masterplan [Date Added :07/06/2010]
Mr. Peter Ho, Head of the Singapore Civil Service and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has outlined the country's next e-Government Masterplan. The Singapore Ministry of Finance an...
Collaboration Software Trends [Date Added :06/24/2010]
The recent Enterprise 2.0 Conference held in Boston, USA, highlighted collaboration trends and products, many incorporating social media capabilities. Vendors are taking three basic approaches ...
Social Media: A Brand Destroyer? [Date Added :06/11/2010]
While social media platforms are great for building brands, they can be equally as effective in destroying them. Social media is not structured; it's not controlled and has a life of its own. This has...
Group Dynamics a Barrier to Innovation [Date Added :06/04/2010]
In a new research study, Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea, Wharton School operations and information management professors Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich argue that group d...
Social Media Redefines Competitive Benchmarking [Date Added :06/02/2010]
Global Intelligence Alliance (GIA), a strategic market intelligence and advisory group, has published a white paper on How Social Media are Redefining Benchmarking. In the report, GIA states...
Diplopedia [Date Added :05/31/2010]
A new study has been released by Rice University and the US Department of State's (DOS) Office of eDiplomacy that looks at the five-year history of creating and implementing Diplopedia. Diplopedia,...
Idea and Innovation Tools [Date Added :05/26/2010]
Blogging Innovation has prepared a summary of leading idea and innovation management tools. The top five vendors and their products are (in alphabetical order): Brightidea - Inspiring...
Enterprise 2.0 Round-Up [Date Added :05/18/2010]
Chelsi Nakano follows Enterprise 2.0 and social networking trends, and here are his latest observations: It's All About Social Networking Toronto-based consultant Len Rosen notes t...
KM Lessons for Deploying Enterprise 2.0 [Date Added :05/13/2010]
Carl Frappaolo, writing for CMS Wire, claims that knowledge management has morphed into a series of related applications, technologies and practices. Among these are/were portals, intranets, BI...
3M's Social Networking Innovation Process [Date Added :05/06/2010]
3M's reputation for innovation is well established, but the company wanted to include more staff in the idea generation process. Traditionally, access to the company's annual "Markets of the Future" b...
Innovate with Kraft [Date Added :04/27/2010]
Among Kraft's 140,000 employees are 2,400 full-time scientists, engineers and chemists. But Kraft also makes a point of seeking ideas from outside the company - university labs, small suppliers, start...
Social Media Marketing Strategies [Date Added :04/22/2010]
Successful social media marketing strategies appear to follow a similar pattern to enhance the results of their campaigns. For example, an independent study conducted by Irbtrax has revealed a pattern...
Innovation Warning Signs [Date Added :04/20/2010]
Stefan Lindegaard, author of The Open Innovation Revolution, provides a list of warning signs of impending organizational innovation failure: - lack of an innovation strategy: executives and...
Collaboration Trends [Date Added :04/09/2010]
Collaboration and social technologies continue to be in the spotlight this year. Market research firm Forrester's Enterprise Software Survey, asked respondents to rate the following topics on a...
The Problem of Incentives in Knowledge Work [Date Added :04/07/2010]
Almost since the beginning of knowledge management, there has been a debate concerning the use of organizational incentives in trying to promote improved KM, and more effective use of new collaboratio...
Social Networking ROI [Date Added :03/31/2010]
How are Western organizations addressing the growing gap between a declining workforce and a growing economy? One way has been through outsourcing work to areas of the world where there is an abundanc...
Borderless Innovation [Date Added :03/23/2010]
Several trend-setting companies provided insights into borderless innovation at a recent conference at Wharton's Mack Center for Technological Innovation. The event's keynote speaker, Michael Mande...
The Next Generation of Enterprise Collaboration Technology [Date Added :03/17/2010]
Enterprise collaboration tools have been mainstream for about a decade, and portals, intranets and shared workspaces are some of the primary options that IT provides to knowledge workers specifically ...
Social Networking Unlocks Tacit Knowledge [Date Added :03/10/2010]
Ongoing research and practitioners' experiences are demonstrating the power of social networking to unlock tacit knowledge. Social networking is providing new ways for businesses to unlock tacit k...
Threats to Social CRM [Date Added :03/09/2010]
Accenture has released a report on social CRM Report describing the obstacles which need to be overcome when developing an organizational social strategy. Making social information actionable seems...
Open Innovation's Champions [Date Added :03/05/2010]
Stefan Lindegaard, author of the new book The Open Innovation Revolution, believes that only about 10% of all companies are adept enough at open innovation to get significant benefits. And, ano...
Top Learning Technology Trends [Date Added :03/02/2010]
How will new media technologies affect training? Robin Hoyle, head of learning at Infinity Learning, identifies the top-10 training trends: 1. The rise of transactional networking: 
Learners and le...
IBM Reveals 'Project Vulcan' Collaboration Strategy [Date Added :02/26/2010]
Delegates attending IBM's annual Lotusphere conference were given a preview of the company's new collaboration plans. The company is targeting the enterprise collaboration market with a formidable por...
Social Media Metrics [Date Added :02/23/2010]
The following tools are designed to help practitioners to measure marketing campaigns based on social networking technology: - Google Analytics: a free tool for measuring a variety of factors, such...
Legal Risks of Social Networking [Date Added :02/18/2010]
What risks do social media tools present? Ownership of content and the fallout caused by misguided content are among the most common sources of dispute. Most staff, when given social media tools to us...
A Better Way to Manage Knowledge [Date Added :02/09/2010]
Knowledge management pioneers John Hagel III and John Seely Brown offer some insights into better ways to manage knowledge. Despite massive investments and a lot of highly motivated people, knowledge ...
The Five Domains of High Performance Organizations [Date Added :02/02/2010]
After conducting thousands of studies that cover hundreds of issues related to productivity and the workforce, one thing is clear - there is no single organizational element that is correlated with hi...
Arab Knowledge Report [Date Added :01/29/2010]
The United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) Regional Bureau of Arab States has published the 2009 Arab Knowledge Report, in collaboration with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Foundation ...
Intra-Company Knowledge Sharing [Date Added :01/28/2010]
The world's top multinational corporations (MNCs) have built up a rich store of knowledge over the years in ways that smaller companies can only dream of. MNCs use their vast global reach to tap diffe...
Procter & Gamble KM Reality Award Winner [Date Added :01/20/2010]
Procter & Gamble (P&G) has been named KMWorld's 2009 KM Reality Award Winner. This award recognizes an organization in which knowledge management is a positive reality. The recipient of...
Will Google Wave be a Collaboration Success? [Date Added :01/13/2010]
Google Wave may have a significant affect on social media/collaboration over the next few years. James Gurd, an e-commerce and marketing consultant and a guest blogger at E-consultancy, shares ...
Booz Allen's Hello System [Date Added :01/06/2010]
Booz Allen Hamilton's Enterprise 2.0 initiative - the Hello System - has been widely recognized, including the Open Enterprise 2009 Innovation Award. Walton Smith, Senior Associate, BAH, offers these ...
Don't Forget the Gen Xers [Date Added :12/31/2009]
Most of the attention on the Baby Boomer (born 1945 to 1963), Gen X (1964 to 1976), and Gen Y (1977 to current) groups in the workforce has centered on the impending retirement of the Baby Boomers and...
NASA Explores Social Networking Benefits [Date Added :12/28/2009]
The US National Aeronautics & Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has conducted an agency-wide pilot - NASAsphere - to explore how a social media platform (Socialcast ent...
Open Source for Enterprise Search [Date Added :12/10/2009]
Open-source software is frequently mentioned as a choice for companies looking to create their own enterprise search applications. But best use of open-source calls for knowledge of what to expect. ...
Barriers on the Road to Enterprise 2.0 [Date Added :12/07/2009]
Andrew McAfee, who coined the term "Enterprise 2.0," notes a number of challenges to its implementation in business. According to a global survey by consulting firm McKinsey & Co., companies are a...
Web 2.0 Benefits [Date Added :11/21/2009]
While Web 2.0 has received considerable attention over the past few years, it has been difficult to measure its impact - if any - on the workplace. According to McKinsey, this is beginning to change. ...
Time for a Social Network Shakeout? [Date Added :11/14/2009]
Faint rumblings have begun in the social networking marketplace. Facebook acquired smaller rival FriendFeed in August. Friendster, viewed as an also-ran in the US, has refocused its operations on the ...
China Seeks Global Brand Leadership [Date Added :11/11/2009]
Chinese companies are flexing their muscles as they set their sights on becoming global brand leaders. US companies have long been concerned about how to compete against Chinese companies in China, bu...
Google Wave [Date Added :11/05/2009]
For a company founded and still largely run by engineers, Google apparently knows a lot about human nature. Just as they did with Gmail, the Googlers have made their newest product invitation-only. Yo...
Accelerating Innovation with Collaboration [Date Added :11/02/2009]
Globalization, new technologies and rapid changes in rules and regulations are constantly reshaping the competitive landscape, even for industries that once seemed slow moving. To respond to this chao...
Problems with Social Networking in the Workplace [Date Added :10/25/2009]
Businesses are starting to appreciate that social networking has its advantages, and there are many companies that have adopted social networking as another vehicle to gain a better presence online an...
The Future of Knowledge Workers [Date Added :10/20/2009]
A study, sponsored by The George Washington University (GWU) and the Institute for Knowledge and Innovation at GWU, has examined the longer-term trends in how organizations will likely try to provide ...
Open Source Wiki Applications [Date Added :10/13/2009]
Collaborative editing of Web documents has brought a new dimension to enterprise knowledge management. The architecture that made Wikipedia famous can now be applied to internal processes. And because...
Enterprise 2.0 Best Practices [Date Added :10/08/2009]
When looking at the use of Enterprise 2.0 in the modern workplace, the following six best practices seem to stand out: 1. Reconciling top-down with bottom-up efforts: It is becoming apparent that t...
IBM Creates 'Collaboratories' [Date Added :10/04/2009]
IBM is roaming the world to set up what it calls "collaboratories," which match up its researchers with experts from governments, universities and companies. IBM is trying to convince countries and co...
The Next Big Thing in Knowledge Management [Date Added :09/27/2009]
According to Alakh Asthana of knowledge process outsourcing firm eClerx Services Ltd., after decades of evolution the functional objective of knowledge management has been achieved However, as Web ...
Keys to Successful Knowledge Management [Date Added :09/24/2009]
Knowledge management poses a major challenge to many organizations, and a poorly laid-out strategy will result in failure. However, recognizing the importance of knowledge management is just the begin...
How Whirlpool Creates New Products [Date Added :09/18/2009]
Whirlpool's formal process for evaluating ideas celebrates its 10th anniversary. In 1999, the then-Chief Executive David R. Whitwam set a goal: He wanted the leading maker of home appliances to be No....
Creating a Competitive Advantage through People [Date Added :09/14/2009]
Few companies have a disciplined plan for making their people a competitive weapon. The reason is that few know how. General managers delegate employee issues to human resources, but don't know precis...
Social Networking in the Workplace [Date Added :09/04/2009]
The key to successfully using social media in the workplace lies in understanding that it is a very different animal from its consumer cousins. Simply trying to create "Facebook for the enterprise" fa...
Asia Becomes Center of Innovation [Date Added :08/31/2009]
Asia has strengths that promise to make it a leading center of technological innovation in the 21st century. These strengths are substantial, fundamental and durable. At their base lie aspects of cult...
Measuring CEO Support for Training [Date Added :08/22/2009]
Measuring training success is still an issue that challenges even the most sophisticated and progressive learning and development functions. The top executive group, the most important stakeholder, is...
Wikis at Work [Date Added :08/15/2009]
Wikis can be used for many different organizational activities, and fall into two broad categories: - In-the-Flow wikis enable people do their day-to-day work in the wiki itself. These wikis are ty...
Collaboration Software Supports BI Applications [Date Added :08/11/2009]
The next frontier for collaboration software could be its convergence with business intelligence (BI) applications. Web 2.0 tools like blogs and wikis have the potential to dramatically expand the rea...
Tata Group Promotes Innovation [Date Added :08/06/2009]
What's more innovative: intelligent software designed to automate the buying and selling of telecom minutes; patented technology for unloading soda ash from railroad cars faster, safer and cheaper; or...
Best Practices for Managing the Aging Workforce [Date Added :07/28/2009]
Enlightened employers are devising new ways to recruit, develop and reward workers of all ages. However, studies show that most employers appear to be oblivious to the shifts occurring in the workforc...
KM Success Factors [Date Added :07/24/2009]
Knowledge, without a doubt, plays an important role in the success of any organization. In fact, in order to maintain a competitive advantage, modern organizations incorporate knowledge creation, know...
Successful Enterprise Social Computing Adoption [Date Added :07/17/2009]
The success of Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter and other social computing tools often creates expectations of immediate adoption in the corporate environment. While the "just build it and they will come"...
Singapore Ranks First in Innovation Leadership [Date Added :07/13/2009]
In the largest and most comprehensive global index of its kind, Singapore ranks first in innovation leadership among 110 countries, according to a new report produced jointly by The Boston Consulting ...
Social Networking Tools Encourage Collaboration [Date Added :07/06/2009]
Companies are rapidly integrating social networking tools into their knowledge sharing and collaboration strategies. Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton and CSC provide insights into enterprise appro...
Knowledge Management Success Factors [Date Added :06/30/2009]
Thanks to developments in information and communication technologies, it is now easier to develop, store, and transfer knowledge. This capability is particularly true among organizations with global w...
Research Parks for the Knowledge Economy [Date Added :06/21/2009]
Since it opened 50 years ago, North Carolina's Research Triangle Park in the USA has been the epitome of science parks - a neatly landscaped campus of low-rise buildings in exurbia, where scientists a...
The Failed Promise of US Innovation [Date Added :06/11/2009]
"We live in an era of rapid innovation." You've probably heard this phrase, or some variant, over and over again. But what if the conventional wisdom is wrong? What if outside of a few high-profile ar...
Think Twice About Being First to Market [Date Added :05/27/2009]
Conventional wisdom says being first to market creates a competitive advantage. Reality is more complicated. Market opportunities are constantly opening and closing, and a hit idea at one point could ...
A Heretical View of Knowledge Management [Date Added :05/12/2009]
Michael Daconta, chief technology officer at Accelerated Information Management LLC, holds some strong views regarding the future of knowledge management. He believes there are multiple, significant p...
Dashboards - Essential Business Visualization [Date Added :04/30/2009]
It is time to stop thinking of dashboards as a "nice to have" and instead view the technology as a way to provide everyone in the company with a common version of the truth. Visualization is opening u...
Determining the ROI of Enterprise 2.0 [Date Added :04/24/2009]
Dion Hinchcliffe, in a recent ZDNet blog, continues to focus on Enterprise 2.0 issues - this time examining return on investment. He states that Enterprise 2.0 tools are now in common use by around on...
SharePoint and Enterprise 2.0 [Date Added :04/14/2009]
Dion Hinchcliffe, in a recent ZDNet blog, points out the issues and challenges of using Microsoft SharePoint for Enterprise 2.0: SharePoint is not a Web 2.0 native: It's very difficul...
Social Networking Creates E-Ruption [Date Added :04/10/2009]
Matthew Fraser and Soumitra Dutta, in a new book on the power of social networking, state that: "The power of social media is turning old models on their heads. In the Web 2.0 world, fans become celeb...
Top 10 Myths of Knowledge Worker Development [Date Added :03/31/2009]
Air Products and Chemicals is a 2008 North America Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) Winner. The following list of knowledge worker development barriers has evolved out of the experience of Ai...
Learning Organization Fundamentals [Date Added :03/17/2009]
A Learning Organization leverages the initiative and innovation of its employees, embraces empowerment, creative thinking, calculated risk-taking and even the "Maverick" principle, according to Dr. Ri...
Connectivity Scorecard 2009 [Date Added :03/12/2009]
Leonard Waverman, London Business School, has published the Connectivity Scorecard 2009, a follow-up to his 2008 research. The Scorecard has been expanded to 50 countries and is designed to pro...
Knowledge Walks Out the Door [Date Added :03/03/2009]
Purpose Linked Consulting has found that many employees age 50 and older have a strong drive to make continued contributions in their field. Most of the individuals interviewed have a firm sense of wh...
Making Web 2.0 Work [Date Added :02/25/2009]
Over the past two years, McKinsey & Company has studied more than 50 early Web 2.0 adopters to gain insights into successful efforts to encourage workforce collaboration and networking. Based ...
Social Networking - The New KM? [Date Added :02/04/2009]
Some experts believe that companies can use social networking and other Web 2.0 technologies to close the knowledge gap that already is forming as workers in the baby-boom generation begin retiring. ...
Creating a Best Practice Corporate Culture [Date Added :01/29/2009]
In their new book, The Ownership Quotient Jim Heskett, Earl Sasser and Joe Wheeler assert that strong, adaptive corporate cultures can foster innovation, productivity, and a sense of ownership ...
The Global Business Champions [Date Added :01/16/2009]
The A.T. Kearney Global Champions 2008, identified from the world's 2,500 largest companies operating internationally, have not only successfully balanced global expansion and value growth, but they h...
Successful Recruiting Depends on Social Computing [Date Added :01/12/2009]
It is essential that organizations understand how social software is altering recruitment and adapt recruiting strategies and systems accordingly, states Gartner in a new briefing - The Effects of ...
Knowledge Management vs. Social Media [Date Added :12/30/2008]
Venkatesh Rao, writing in Social Computing Magazine, has some interesting observations regarding the ongoing debate regarding knowledge management vs. social networking - which he refers to as ...
Maximizing Enterprise and Web Searching [Date Added :12/16/2008]
Ten years ago, search technologies that were originally developed for the Web were applied to the enterprise - yet it has become harder and harder for workers to find and apply the critical knowledge ...
Learning in 2020 [Date Added :12/10/2008]
The American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) has spoken with leaders and thinkers in the learning industry to get their insights into what the next decade holds for workplace learning an...
Companies to Engage in 'Disruptive Innovation' [Date Added :11/28/2008]
Paul J. H. Schoemaker, research director for the Mack Center for Technological Innovation, suggests that, for some companies, the economic crisis can actually provide an innovation platform. "The cris...
Why Everybody's Favourite Intellectual Property Metric is Wrong [Date Added :11/25/2008]
Joff Wild's blog for IAM Magazine picks up on an interesting conversation on intellectual capital (IC) valuation by leading expert Pat Sullivan. Sullivan says is that the very common claim t...
Sharing Global Supply Chain Knowledge [Date Added :11/14/2008]
In global supply chains, managers consistently have struggled with sharing valuable knowledge with buyers and suppliers across borders. Both buyers and suppliers agree that sharing knowledge among sup...
US Government KM Effort Faces Challenges [Date Added :10/31/2008]
Proponents of knowledge management within the US Federal Government hope that it will be a priority item on the next US president's policy agenda, and they are renewing efforts to promote its implemen...
Enterprise Microblogging Tools [Date Added :10/14/2008]
Although experts in social media have been talking about how businesses might adopt microblogging tools like Twitter and Plurk, it is only recently that new vendors have appeared in the microblogging ...
Western Companies Face Worldwide Leadership Shortage [Date Added :10/09/2008]
Faced with an aging workforce and a growing demand for skilled workers in emerging markets like China and India, companies in the West are grappling with a leadership crisis of unprecedented scope. ...
Social Computing Replaces Intranets [Date Added :10/02/2008]
A growing number of KM practitioners are questioning the value of intranets as social networking tools become more numerous and advanced. For example, in a recent article, Matthew Hodgson, a managemen...
10 Ways to Tap Boomer Knowledge [Date Added :09/23/2008]
Knowledge transfer is becoming more common at companies, motivated by the concern that retiring baby boomers will mean huge losses in irreplaceable intellectual capital. "When people leave organiz...
Advantages of Knowledge Process Outsourcing [Date Added :09/17/2008]
Organizations have been outsourcing and offshoring business processes for many years in order to take advantage of the lower cost of labor in developing countries such as India and China. Many of thes...
Collaboration and Innovation at SAP [Date Added :09/08/2008]
SAP has set the standard for creating a collaborative ecosystem - certainly within the tech industry - and offers a good example for other companies. There are many reasons for SAP's success, but two ...
Knowledge Transfer Critical to Companies' Competitive Edge [Date Added :09/04/2008]
Most companies do not have a plan to manage and transfer knowledge and even fewer factor cross-generational challenges into business strategy, states a new report from The Conference Board, the global...