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"Value Networks and the true nature of collaboration meets this challenge head on with a systemic, human-network approach to managing business operations and ecosystems. Value network modeling and analytics provide better support for collaborative, emergent work and complex activities."

Why Gamification works for some organizations and not others.

"The company of the future - and indeed the company of the present - needs new instruments to adapt to a changing reality. The new generation of digital natives is progressively being incorporated to the world of work. We are talking about a generation that has lived most of its life within the technological revolution that has occurred in the last two decades. It has connected people, who spend more time on the Internet than in front of the television and who have lived with the emergence of video games. It is not to judge whether that is good or bad, it's simply real and nothing will change it."

Looking at the HiSocial offering, I can't help but wonder about unintended consequences. The digital natives are savvy and will naturally find ways of 'gaming' the system. If you simple reward actions such as visiting intranet pages or 'downloading corporate material', you are in no way increasing the sum total knowledge, helping efficiency or decision making. What's needed is reward that stimulates participation and qualitative contribution, not just transactions.

"David Damberger discusses "Learning From Failure" at TEDxYYC 2011. David is the founder of Engineers Without Borders Calgary (EWB). After building the organization in Calgary and working with them in India, David spent four years building EWB's overseas programs as the Director of Southern African Programs. In this role, David consulted for dozens of African based companies, non-profits and governments in the fields of agriculture; food processing; water and sanitation; and mobile applications for development."

"Thinking is hard - yet barely a waking moment passes when we're not labouring away at it. A few of us may be natural geniuses, able to work through the toughest tangles in an instant; others, blessed with reserves of willpower, stay the course in the dogged pursuit of truth. Then there's the rest of us. Not prodigies and a little bit lazy, but still aspiring to understand the world and our place in it. What can we do? In Intuition Pumps, Daniel Dennett, one of the world's most original and provocative thinkers, takes us on a profound, illuminating and highly entertaining philosophical journey. He reveals a collection of his favourite thinking tools, or 'intuition pumps', that he and others have developed for addressing life's most fundamental questions. Along with new discussions of familiar moves - Occam's Razor, reductio ad absurdum - Dennett offers cognitive tools built for the most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, consciousness and free will. In his genial style, Dennett guides readers around the pitfalls in arguments, and reveals easier ways to better understand the world around us and our place in it. An enlightening and practical store of knowledge, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking will teach you to think truly independently and creatively."

Most intranets are an absolute and utter joke. Enterprise search is pathetic. Why? Because today's management culture has no interest in making the work lives of -particularly its knowledge workers - easier and more productive. In fact, management practice often heaps more complexity and awful, unusable systems on top of frustrated, overwhelmed employees.

How should statisticians be communicating with the media? This meeting explores the relationship between statisticians, journalists and the public, and the statistician's role in providing expert statistical comments on media stories. Speakers present their experiences of working with the media, reflecting on the challenges of communicating statistical ideas for non-technical audiences, whilst preserving the integrity of the story

"useful commnity for people involved in working wiht CoPs on-line... "

" Interesting TMS research and articles on working with the Indian culture"

"Webex offer a number of interesteing free events using webex technology - working linking into..."

" TMA ran a workshop for us and talked about this tool, which can be a real asset for any team that's working globally."

"A striking aspect of the Steve Borgatti network analysis workshop at University of Kentucky was how his talk relied heavily on early network analysis, especially that done with Rob Cross at IBM's Institute for Knowledge Based Organizations where Andrew Parker also worked. Their research inside Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and with BCG clients at the turn of the century, was central to his presentation"

" Research by Sue Newell focuses on innovation, specifically, on understanding how knowledge is transferred and innovation fostered within and across organizations. Much of her work has taken place at ikon, a research unit for innovation, knowledge and organizational networking that she co-founded at the University of Warwick in the U.K. "

" Creative Commons provide free tools that let anyone easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry."

"Lucy Mcnab has kindly offered to run a webinar on the work they did to capture memories at the Festival Hall so check the events calendar for details of this http://members.ki-network.org/Lists/Events/Digest.aspx "

" interesting article looking at the impact on 'Getting Facebook ready for work' containing a number of useful links to other articles and blogs on the topic of social networking tools and their possible applications."

"A great example of the work that Vanessa does. This is and example of teh visual imagery that she will be creating for the KIN Spring workshop..."

Preventing valuable knowledge from walking out the doorLike many other companies, TVA is facing the imminent retirement of a large percentage of its work force-an estimated 30 to 40 percent of employees will retire over the next five years. These experienced employees possess much unique, undocumented knowledge.  Many of them literally built the plants and facilities that they now operate and maintain.

TVA were the pioneers for knowledge retention. The original presentation to their board was back in 1998. Most other KRT programmes, including M&S and KIN can trace their origins back to this original work by Andy Wright, a senior manager in Leadership Development at TVA.

"This site gives you access to the work and research of Dr Itiel Dror, one of the key note speakers at the December workshop"

This site gives you access to the work and research of Dr Itiel Dror, one of the key note speakers at the December workshop.