Comments on Knoco stories: Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) = corporate fa...

Anonymous, don't confuse social networks with ...

2011-12-10T08:30:03.948Z

Anonymous, don't confuse social networks with communities of practice. Sure the skill for building personal networks lies with the person, but the skill for building communities of practice lies with the organisation, and must be nurtured by the organisation.

If it is left to the individual to build the knowledge sharing networks, then this is, as I said, a failure of corporate KM.

Milton may be partly right. You are talking about ...

2011-12-09T21:52:20.850Z

Milton may be partly right. You are talking about community approach, but I think the skill for building social network and trust is part of PKM. If this is the case, the best method is to invest in people through PKM.

Well, sort of Steve. Yes and No. You know as well ...

2009-05-13T11:01:00.000+01:00

Well, sort of Steve. Yes and No. You know as well as I the tension between KM and innovation, or more extremely the tension between sticking to out of date dogma, and continuously reinventing the wheel. There is a key issue there, about how a community can continuously and objectively review its practices and look for the left-of-centre ideas that could challenge accepted wisdom and be the next step forward. However I would suggest that this is not just "thinking for yourself" but "thinking within the community". There's a great methodology that Shell Drilling use, called Drilling the Limit, where Drilling teams seek out all existing knowledge of drilling a well in a particular basin, and challenge themselves to step out beyond the performance benchmark. This is a very powerful process, all the more powerful by being worked collectively as a team, and being based on a full knowledge of what's been done in the past. That way the tensions are resolved.

Thanks for your critique of this article on your own blog, by the way. I have added some comments.

"Just because an idea is popular, does not mean it...

2009-05-13T09:37:00.000+01:00

"Just because an idea is popular, does not mean it's correct."

That would seem to be an argument for occasionally thinking for yourself, no?