Information flows in the enterprise should always enhance the ability of participants to do the right thing in the right place at the right time.
Which lets me segue neatly into the crux of this post, curation in the enterprise. Every enterprise has its own variant of curator, people who help decide who sees what, when, and in what shape. Information overload is everywhere, the Shirkyian filter failure is everywhere, and into the valley ride the usual six hundred, theirs not to reason why. So in order to understand how enterprise curation should take place, it’s worth looking at some extreme forms of enterprise curation as practises today. There appear to be four main forms:
The Signal Booster
The Spreadsheet Jock
The Soulmate
The Sidler