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This TED talk from Daniel Kahneman has huge relevance for anyone involved in Knowledge Transfer or Knowledge Elicitation work. We know that an individual's recall and their actual experience may be quite different. This excellent talk shows just how different the 'remembering self' can be from the 'experiencing self'.  Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy -- and our own self-awareness.

Today we face an entirely new environment for innovation and getting things done. The days of the lone genius quietly toiling away in pursuit of that 'Eureka' moment to revolutionise an industry are all but over. We are now in the days of asking and listening to our customers and working with them in our innovation cycles. Innovation demands collaboration. So does production. In the past we could focus on a single task in an assembly-line fashion, handing our completed activity to the next person who would in turn do the same, until the job was finished. Now the jobs change fast, requiring learning new skills rather than merely repeating the old. We have to seek out people who have other pieces of the puzzle and work with them to tackle increasingly complex issues at a much faster pace.

Knowledge Management Consultant, Chris Collison defines knowledge management, and explains the breadth of tools and techniques which underpin this discipline.

New Scientist article on 'Knowledge Engines'. Provides further confusion between definitions of information and knowledge. Wolfram Alpha revealed as Apple's SIRI answer engine. 

We may think blacklisting apps is a Luddite response to collborative tools, but this article makes some some compelling arguments for blocking.

Innovation based on reuse of ideas. Making existing products, developed over many years (in this instance vodka) even better.

Reframing - the key to buy-in?  Rory Sutherland talks eloquently and convincingly about how you position a situation determines how it is received. Essential stuff if you are trying to convince senior people of the worth of your endeavours. Sutherland is one of the leading thinkers in advertising today, so knows what he is talking about.

Could this be used to create a knowledge click marketplace?

Engineering serendipity - a process model for the unexpected

A useful common-sense guide to effective posting on social media 

Nick Temple is one of our speakers at the KIN Winter 2012 workshop

Excellent short article on the difference between learning and knowing

We are often faced with a hiatus in knowledge transfer, but the 4 year gap between London and Rio Olympics poses special problems. An interesting post from the HBR Blog

Google extends its Knowledge Graph 

"The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"-metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them."

"Gareth Morgan (Porthcawl, Wales, 22 December, 1943) is a British / Canadian [organizational theorist]], management consultant and Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto. He is known as creator of the "organisational metaphor" concept and writer of the bestsellers Images of Organization.[1], Imaginization: New Mindsets for Seeing, Organizing and Managing, Riding the Waves of Change and other books on management. He is also well known for his writings on social theory and research methodology, especially through his books Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis (written with Gibson Burrell)and Beyond Method: Strategies for Social Research. The common theme uniting his work is that of challenging assumptions - to help develop new ways of thinking in social research, organization and management theory and practice, and, by implication, in everyday life."

Book recommended  by John Pierce