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John Tropea 8 days ago
NOTE: I’m not a futurist or organisational anthropologist, but it seems that my interest in knowledge and networks has led me into thinking about such matters as fundamental as the future of organisational structure. A while ago I posted on how organisations can become more agile. People can connect horizontally…the silos blinders can be removed. What [...] Click here to play
John Tropea 19 days ago
At the end of my last post I mentioned that KM (even Talent Management) or social computing need a top-down approach, shift, or message when it comes to collaboration, sharing, and organisational effectiveness…or better put a balanced approach. Why? Sure you will get lots of success in sense-making and sharing by facilitating the use of grassroots tools [...] Click here to play
John Tropea 29 days ago
Thought I’d share a few slides from a presentation I’m giving at work on Communities of Practice (CoP) from a knowledge management perspective. My aim was to contrast traditional KM of conscripting best practices, with a new approach based on sensemaking pkm and networks…more appropriate tools, design for emergence and ambient awareness, and amplifying how we [...] Click here to play
John Tropea 32 days ago
Not long ago I posted about how our Communities of Practice (CoP) are hitting a sweetspot…bottom-up and grass roots tools that provide more of a sense of place and better coordination over email, and are more enabling than the Intranet. Great cross-functional CoPs are emerging like Bulk Materials Handling, Sustainable Development, Software Architecture and Approaches, 3D [...] Click here to play
John Tropea 50 days ago
Looks like I was prophetic when I posted What’s the difference between Intranet 2.0 and a social network with groups. Why do I say this? At work we have many active online Communities of Practice (CoPs), some are learning and sharing, and others are customer based information and support CoPs, or even both. In my post Online Communities [...] Click here to play
