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Article on senior managers' 'Personal Knowledge Infrastructure'. Davide Nicolini, Prof of Organizational Studies at Warwick Business School and Director of KIN

IBM's Watson - the future of machine learning

An interesting article related to the KIN Webinar on 2nd July on 'The tension between Knowledge Sharing and Protecting IP'. The response from Mike Harvey  in the comments is particularly useful and pragmatic.

"Informal networks and the making of marketplaces"

Idea proposal and voting

"Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors"

"This Australian start-up doesn't make beer, it sells the customer's idea of what their beer should be. "

"Sloane MIT Review article"

"Daniel has written some Interesting articles and books looking at the future of learning and other KM related topics"

StopThinkSocial - Blog from David Christopher. Some pragmatic ways of coping with info torrents

The inspiration for this first event on Serious Games comes from Jane McGonigal's TED talk on Serious Games, and David Helgason's declaration of the 'Year of Gamification'. The event will examine how games and games technologies are being brought into 'serious' areas, as well as how serious tasks are being made more game-like. There are three ways that games can be adopted by other sectors: * by generating positive side effects from gameplay; * by creating technology that can be reused; * and by increasing engagement with a problem or activity. Mary Matthews from Blitz Games Studios and Alex Fleetwood from Hide and Seek, will discuss future opportunities and the event will be chaired by Stian Westlake, Director of Policy & Research Unit, NESTA.

Following Richard Wallis' presentation at the KIN Winter Workshop, here is a great example of how open linked data can add value, managed by LGID

Possible KIN Associate

Wall Street journal / MIT Sloane Management Review article. How emerging markets are leading the way in thinking about markets in a downturn. The examples mainly come from marketing and product placement, but these are great lessons in how to think differently about an existing business model. The batteries pricing / packaging example was a neat way of presenting an existing offering in a more attractive & acceptable way during a downturn. The item about focussing on your existing customer base rather than new market opporunities got me thinking about how we use existing knowledge. The analogy works for me, because leveraging what we already know makes more sense than the cost of buying in expertise etc.