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as the stock market bounced along on the bottom, I leavened the gloom by speaking with Chris Meyer, a keynote speaker at APQC's upcoming 2009 knowledge management conference. With a background in economics and innovation, Chris's job as chief executive of Monitor Networks is to suggest new ways to sense and think about complex--and sometimes alarming--situations.

This paper introduces Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology (SMM) as an approach to KM system design using Web2.0. SMM is a philosophically derived approach which allows knowledge management (KM) researchers and practitioners to more fully understand and listen to user's needs so as to inform the design of dialogic KM practices and systems to promote knowledge sharing.

"If you're anything like the average Internet user, you probably didn't spend the estimated 244 hours it would take to read every privacy policy for every website you visited last year. That's exactly why a team led by Carnegie Mellon University just launched an interactive website aimed at helping users make sense of their privacy on the web."

If you're out on the hunt for gathering insightful knowledge on AI, these two books are definitely going to be your food for thought, according to Bill Gates.

"summary of commercial and other reasons why it makes sense for organisaitons to leverage group learning."

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.

"Born and raised in Sweden, Anna Rosling-Rönnlund is a visionary whose main goal in life is to find systematic sense in vast amounts of data. As tons of data concerning the health and economic status of each country is collected annually, Anna's focus is to make this global public data easier to understand and utilize"

Recommended by Luc Glasbeek at the 2014 Autumn workshop

"Inxight is a product which can be used to trawl an organisations deepest data repositories to surface patterns and semantic clusters. ConocoPhillips will be investigating this tool over Summer 2007"