Sep
23
Dr. Kao’s Innovation Nation
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The first official day of KMW08 and talk about information overload. As I move from session to session, take notes, ask questions, and network with other participants, I can’t help but think, “Boy am I glad I have a blog to informally capture some of my thinking around what I’m hearing and seeing in order to share it with others.”
The day starts off with the opening keynote, Dr. John Kao. Author of Innovation Nation and guest of The Colbert Report, he’s been called the “Innovation Sherpa” who, I take it, will help us climb Innovation Everest. What is innovation? It’s not as simple a Creativity + Value. According to Dr. Kao, its more like Capabilities + Desired future. It’s a definition that I find interesting because its far more realistic and forces you to hold a mirror up and ask yourself, do I have the capabilities to reach my desired future? Anything that slaps you silly as a wake up call for change is fine by me.
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Sep
22
Sharepoint and KM: In Search of the KM Particle
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While scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) search for the elusive ‘god particle’ to help solve the mysteries of the universe, a number of participants at this year’s KM World and Intranet conference have come in search of the ‘KM particle’; the one unifying element that permeates all organizations and will help unify KM theory. Microsoft Sharepoint presents itself as that element.
Sharepoint can be somewhat described by looking at its six pillars: collaboration, portal, search, content management, business focus, and business intelligence. Confused yet? Don’t worry. So was I.
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Sep
19
Below is a list of the conference sessions that I plan to attend. My focus is somewhat on the technology side, although what I’m really hoping to learn is how to build bridges between people and technology and how to use technology to build bridges between people.
The full schedule with abstracts for all of the sessions is available in PDF on the Information Today website. If you see anything that may be of interest to you, please feel free to drop a comment.
Monday September 22nd
- Sharepoint and KM Workshop
Tuesday September 23rd
- Snowden on KM: A Hot Seat Interview
- ECM from the Trenches
- Real-World KM
- Linking, Collaboration, Intranet, Policy, Practice, and Feedback
- Managing the Message Mountain
- KM 2.0 in Action
Sep
17
Welcome
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It’s my first blog post and I’d just like to welcome everyone to CognitivePotential.com.
The scope and scale of this blog will evolve over time, but for starters, it’s been suggested that it would be a great communication tool to connect with others while I attend the KM World and Intranets 2008 conference in San Jose California next week.
Catherine Shaw, a colleague of mine who will also be attending the conference, has kindly agreed to be a guest author on this blog and share some of her take aways from the sessions that she attends.
Together, we hope to capture some of our conference learnings and observations, but, more importantly, get some comments to help us think critically while the ideas are still fresh in our mind.
We’ll do our best to post as often as possible and share photos via Flickr.
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