I know - it has been quite a while between blogs, and when I have blogged it has been rather frivolous. The main reason: I’m spending most of my time looking after Annalena (and a bit of time helping her with her own blog).
But despite mainly being “Dr Dad”, I have been doing some KM […]

I’ve taken the liberty of uploading some mp3s of Larry Prusak’s keynote address from this week’s ACKMIDS2005 conference here in Melbourne. Unfortunately Larry was unable to attend the conference in person, so his presentation was via videoconference. My recording is in 3 parts, and unfortunately there is about 15-20 minutes of Larry’s talk missing between […]

I’ll be busy this week attending ACKMIDS2005, the 8th Australian Conference on Knowledge Management and Intelligent Decision Support.
This year the conference theme will explore
“Why Culture Matters: the Local and Global in Knowledge Management”.
The conference is hosted by the Knowledge Management Research Program, Monash University, Melbourne.
We are delighted to have Larry Prusak and Karlheinz Kautz […]

Some of the most important and interesting thinkers in Knowledge Managment, Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak and Don Cohen have had a weblog for almost two months: http://www.babsonknowledge.org/
Welcome to the Babson knowledge blog! For those who don’t have this knowledge, Babson College has a research center on knowledge management (the Working Knowledge Research Center, or WKRC) […]

I heard today that Peter Drucker has died at the age of 95.
A few weeks ago I promised to write a bit more about why I was so underwhelmed by Drucker’s work.
I have no doubt that Drucker was an extremely influential thinker, especially for those involved in business and management. I also freely […]

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, […]

Many people are baffled when I tell them I’m a researcher in IT, but I’m not a programmer. They ask: What does it mean to research “information systems”? Why is that important?
My usual response is to point out one of the many examples of failed IT projects, and claim that our research is aimed at […]

Continuing the recent series of brief blogs on knowledge work, I’ve been reading the excellent book Managing Knowledge Work, by Newell, Robertson. Scarbrough and Swan, and browsing the accompanying website, and I have a few thoughts…
This is probably the best introductory text on the issues surrounding knowledge work and knowledge management that I’ve read so […]

Even thought I previously announced that my blog experiment has failed, it seems that I’m getting back into it. Of course, making connections, being read, and getting feedback has helped enourmously, which is why I must thank Jack Vinson for giving me a shout-out.
A bit of wandering through the archives of Jack’s blog led me […]

One way to answer the question “Who is a knowledge worker?” is to make lists. List the occupations that are knowledge workers, and those that aren’t. This is at least one way to start sorting out our intuitions about knowledge workers.
Rather than just start out on my own, I’ll begin with a quote from James […]