Sometimes (and quite often according to my own observations) there is a significant gap between the existing organizational culture and the kind of culture that readily will embrace and adopt social software and social collaboration practices. The existing communication culture, which can be seen as a subset of the organizational culture, reveals a lot about an organization’s readiness to adopt social collaboration practices. Here are a few ...

Here's a quick way for you to catch up with my recent writing on this blog and elsewhere. Your comments and feedback are most welcome.


CMS Wire

• Enterprise Collaboration: Six Steps to Secure Sharing
• Designing Digital Services for Knowledge Workers: Good Enough is not Good Enough
• Don't Underestimate the Power of Networks

Tieto Future Office blog

• The employee profile - What's in it for me?
• Transforming into a social business
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Re-using existing intellectual assets and enabling people to perform to their full potential is the required next step in operational excellence. With better connections we can solve problems and act upon opportunities in a fraction of the usual time. We can achieve it fewer resources and by activating underutilized resources such as expertise hidden in distant corners of the enterprise. The digitalization of businesses has provided the ...

Imagine an environment characterized by the following:

• It is as easy to get started for a newbie as for an experienced professional
• The time from preparation to execution is really short
• You can do it anywhere, any time 
• You can set your own goals
• You can do it in your own pace
• You can get guidance and coaching on demand from experts and mentors
• You get immediate feedback about your progress and performance
• You can easily ...

This definition of a Knowledge Management System (KMS) can be found in Wikipedia:

"a (generally IT based) system for managing knowledge in organizations for supporting creation, capture, storage and dissemination of information. It can comprise a part (neither necessary or sufficient) of a Knowledge Management initiative."

I am personally not too fond of this definition. First of all, it makes it seem like a knowledge management system ...