KI-Network

The aim of this project is to enable organizations to improve the performance and business impact of their networks and communities by providing feedback and benchmarking against other firms and sectors.

from Jim Millen, Fujitsu

This blog was initiated following a KIN WEB 2.0 Roundtable event as a way of sharing items relating to that topic. Any KIN members that would like to participate in adding entries to this blog, email me and I will set you up as an author

Public collaboration, network effects, crowdsourcing - call it what you will, the read/write web is based largely on projects where the value of the whole is greater than the sum of countless parts. Those parts are contributed by individual people all over the world, often for free. It's world-changing stuff, but can businesses make effective use of this paradigm?

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.

From knowledge retention to knowledge management, information discovery to information publishing, the range of emerging (and not so) technology needs have been highlighted by the challenges faced in today's economic climate. However there's one reoccurring theme I keep coming across and that's subject matter expert (SME) identification.

there is a tangible cost to companies when knowledge and experience walk out the door. Once that knowledge and experience are gone, no amount of TARP money will bring them back. It may be too late for some companies to prevent this now, but putting measures in place will lessen the blow in future

Excellent Article on how to accomplish behavioural change

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.

to demonstrate that shared or packaged knowledge has to be tailored to the need of the recipient, rather than the interests or viewpoint of the provider