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Enrique Rubio Royo

The Content Economy: Why traditional intranets fail today's knowledge workers - 0 views

  • inputs and outputs of knowledge work – which is information and knowledge – vary from time to time, from situation to situation
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      K siempre bajo contexto
  • Knowledge work is also less structured and the structure of knowledge work typically emerges as the work proceeds.
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      actividades o interacciones tácitas (complejas)
  • In a knowledge-intensive business environment,
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  • very hard or even impossible to anticipate in advance what information is needed
  • You simply cannot know what information will be relevant before the moment you need it.
  • We also need to have immediate access to anyone who might possess the knowledge and information we need but which is not captured
  • often because it is hard to capture or simply does not allow itself to be captured (tacit knowledge) and exchanged.
  • There’s a long tail of information needs that still needs to be served
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      Asumimos que tenemos necesidades de INFO relativas a una larga cola de permanentemente cambiante y virtualmente ilimitada cantidad de INFO . La parte izqda. de la fig. hace referencia a la INFO que necesitamos en las tradicionales actividades transaccionales o procedimentales, y las transformacionales. Se trata de una INFO predecible, de uso frecuente y reutilizable. Situación que nos permite definir, diseñar y producir el tipo y estructura de INFO, así como la INFO requerida antes de que la actividad sea llevada a cabo.
  • Long Tail power graph
  • In the left end of the power graph we have
  • for transformational and transactional activities
  • This information does not change very often and thus can be quite easily reused
  • for commonly performed activities
  • the information needs are predictable
  • This allows us to define, design and produce the type and structure of the information as well as the actual information before the next time the information need arises (the activity is performed).
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      Estas son las características que definen los SSII tradicionales, orientados a CONTENIDOS (base de procedimientos + otros recursos digitales).
  • Knowledge work is often a completely different story
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      Cuando hablamos de Kwork es otra cosa. La iNFO requerida para activiodades de Kwork, probablemente la encontraremos en la larga cola (parte plana de la figura). Allí se encuentran recursos de INFO usados con muy poca frecuenciaa o incluso que nunca hemos usado con antelación. La INFO que necesitamos varaia de una situación a otra, de un instante a otro (siempre bajo contexto). La INFO varía, así como el tipo y estructura de lso recursos de INFO (hiperfragmentación de la INFO y el K). Ello hace que virtualmente sea imposible definir una INFO reusable con antelación a ser necesitada. La impredictibilidad de la naturaleza del Kwork es la razón por la que necesitamos dar a los K workers acceso a tooda la INFO que existe y que puede ser relevante. Puesto que no sabemos qué puede ser relevante hasta que surja la necesidad ('just in time'), no podemos depositar INFO relevanteen una pila o repositorio. Necesitamos también, proporcionarles con las herramientas adecuadas (proceso PKM) a los K workers. Nuevo Ecosistema de INFO Organizacional (p.e. modelo ECCO Suricata), distinto a los SSII tradicionales orientados exclusivamente a INFO y a recolilar toda la INFO por adelantado.
  • the information needed for a knowledge work activity is likely to be found in the long tail
  • used infrequently or maybe even once
  • impossible to define a reusable information resource in advance before it is needed
  • The unpredictable nature of knowledge work
  • is why we need to give knowledge workers access to all information that exists and that might be relevant
  • We also need to provide them with tools
  • to serve the knowledge workers’ information needs
  • Traditional intranets are not designed for knowledge work
  • changing role of intranets in knowledge-intensive businesses
  • These intranets need to provide flexible access to both information and people
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      Modelo Suricata- Ecosistema Complejo de Conocimiento Organizacional (ECCO)
  • The intranet needs to be turned into an “information broker platform” where information is freely and easily created, aggregated, shared, found and discovered at minimal effort.
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      Necesidad de rediseñar la intranet tradicional en las ORGs intensivas en INFO y K: la intranet debe transformarse en una plataforma 'broker' de INFO, donde la INFO es libre y fácilmente creada, agregada, localizada y descuberta con el menor esfuerzo, pero sobre todo debe faciltar la COMPARTICIÓN y COLABORACIÓN. Sin embargo, la mayoría de las intranetstratan de ayudar a las personas que llevan a cabo actividades predefinibles y repetitivas (plataformas 'push'), pero son totalmente disfuncionales para el K work. No es una coincidencia, pues, que las intranets jueguen un papel marginal en el trabajo diario. La INFO que los Kworkers necesitan no puede conocerse por adelantado y por lo tanto atendida por la intranet tradicional. Será crítico que los K workers tenga acceso a toda la INFO disponible, qde modo que cubra las necesidades de INFO altamente variables, extensivas e impredecibles de los K workers.
  • Such an intranet gives everybody access to all information which is available and make room for virtually infinite amounts of information.
  • However, most of today’s intranets primarily consist of
  • They aim to serve people who perform predefined and repeatable tasks
  • push platforms
  • but they are quite dysfunctional for knowledge work
  • intranet plays a marginal role in their daily work
  • It’s not a coincidence that
  • The information that knowledge workers need can often not be anticipated and served by a push-based intranet
  • It is also critical that they have access to ALL information that is available
  • intranet that needs to serve the highly varying, extensive and unpredictable information needs of knowledge workers.
  • To conclude
  • push-based production model
  • assumes that all information resources on the intranet must be produced in advance
  • Knowledge workers need a social intranet
  • social intranet
  • paradigm change
  • is not just about adding a layer of social collaboration tools
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      Los K workers necesitan una intranet SOCIAL (cambio de paradigma). No se trata de simplemente añadir una capa de herramientas de colaboración social; se trata de una plataforma que combina la pòtencia de l modelo 'push' con la del 'pull' para suminstrar a cualquiera que participe y contribuya con una 'empresa expandida' con la INFO, K y conecxiones que ellos necesitan para tomar las decisiones correctas y actuar para alcanzar plenamente sus objetivos. Debe equipar a cada Kworker con las herramientas que le permitan participar, contribuir, descubrir, conectar, crear (APRENDER), para compartir y coolaborar 'entre iguales'. La intranet social es una plataforma 'pull' con mecanismos para atraer de manera automática INFO y PERSONAS relevantes a cada cuál, que permitan superar la 'sobreabundancia de INFO' , mediante los oprtunos 'RADARES' y 'FILTROS', así como herramientas para la 'CURACIÓN de CONTENIDOS' alrededor de 'tópicos' concretos. La intranet social, también debe contemplar la adquisicion de INFO y PERSONAS relevantes mediante 'SERENDIPIA' (por casualidad). Necesitamos implícita y explícitamente compartir lo que hacemos y conocemos con otras personas en nuestras redes, con personas que compartan nuestros intereses. "La larga cola de iNFO soporta el núcleo del actual modelo de negocio intensivo en K: el trabajo del conocimiento ( K work).
  • it is a platform that combines the powers of push with the powers of pull to supply anyone who participates and contributes within an extended enterprise with the information, knowledge and connections they need to make the right decisions and act to fulfill their objectives
  • It equips everyone with the tools that allows them to participate, contribute, attract, discover, find and connect with each other to exchange information and knowledge and/or collaborate
  • enabling employee-to-employee information exchange.
  • A social intranet must necessarily be designed for information abundance.
  • "more is more" paradigm
  • the social intranet is a pull platform with mechanisms for automatically attracting relevant information and people to you
  • sensation commonly called information overload
  • the problem is not the amount of information but rather that the filters
  • We need to get the filters in place
  • The social intranet also has an important part to play when it comes to supporting serendipity
  • We must have ways that “automagically” attract useful information and connections to us
  • We just need to implicitly and explicitly share what do and know to other people in our networks, to people who share our interests, or to people who happen to pass us by at any other kind of cross-road.
  • push-based production mode
  • the long tail of information supports the core of a knowledge-intensive modern business: the knowledge work.
  • Knowledge work is about
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      ORGs cada vez mas intensivas en K. Kwork relativo a actividades tácitas(p.e. resolución de problemas, investigación y trabajo creativo, interacción y comunicación con otras personas, etc). Por naturaleza, es menos predecible y repetible que el tradicional trabajo industrial. Las entradas y salidas (INFO/K) siempre bajo contexto, y cambiantes. Kwork menos estructurado y la estructura del Kwork emerge tal como se desenvuelve el trabajo. En un entorno intensivo en K, muy dificil o casi imñposible anticipar por adelantado que INFO vamos a necesitar. No podemos saber qué INFO va a ser relevante en el momento que la requiramos. Necesitamos poder acceder de manera inmediata a cualquiera que pueda poseer el K e INFO que necesitamos, pero el cuál -k- es dificil de captuirar e intercambiar (K tácito).
Enrique Rubio Royo

Perspective On Designing and Managing Knowledge Work - 0 views

  • Horizontal networking often creates dissonance in the vertical enterpriseThe vertical structure of knowledge did not foresee the coming of horizontal networking tools now shaping today’s workplace.
  • Today, there's a lot of chatter about bottom-up versus top-down, the collective wisdom of the organizational crowd, and various related themes.  However, there’s also ongoing dissonance or competition between the methods behind structured and defined organizational forms and activity and the growing world of hyperlinked flows in which knowledge and meaning are built layer by layer, exchange by exchange (all those hyperlinked interactions that increasingly make up what we call "knowledge work") as enabled by social computing.
  • At the heart of the issue is the way work is designed and an organization develops its structure
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  • A primary tool in designing work and structure is job evaluation
  • (and derivatives like accountability mapping and redundancy analysis).  And I don’t mean job evaluation as in assessing job performance – I mean the function that assigns jobs to levels and pay grades based on job “weight” with respect to skill, effort, responsibility and working conditions (the legal criteria for assessing pay equity). I believe that these tools and their underlying assumptions are used to create the skeletal architecture of organizations, the pyramid we all know. 
  • job evaluation (or work measurement in the professional jargon) relies very heavily on the assumption that knowledge is hierarchically structured and, as well, put to use.
  • who has more of the knowledge —on paper—is she or he who deserves to be "higher up" in the organization.
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    "Horizontal networking often creates dissonance in the vertical enterprise. The vertical structure of knowledge did not foresee the coming of horizontal networking tools now shaping today's workplace."
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