Knowledge Management

Fourth of July and Compliance

Monday, July 5th, 2010 at 8:00 am
Old State House

With the Fourth of July on Sunday, most businesses are closed on July 5th. (We hate to waste a good holiday.) What better way to celebrate the independence of the United States than by taking the day off from work and watching stuff blow up. In colonial times, official proclamations were read from the Old… » Read More

Data Breaches and Knowledge Management

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 7:19 am

One of the features of the new Massachusetts Data Privacy Law is that it forces some knowledge management on companies in the context of data breaches. Since the law required compliance on or before March 1, 2010, I assume you already have the policy and safeguards in place. That is, if you have social security… » Read More

The Four Areas of Risk and Knowledge

Monday, November 23rd, 2009 at 7:00 am
4 box black swan

When thinking about risk, I break things into four quadrants. There are things we know and there are things we don’t know as individuals. I then slice slice that further again with the things we know and the things we don’t know as part of the larger organization or conscious state. Our sweet spot is… » Read More

Who Knows What?

Monday, October 26th, 2009 at 9:42 am
WSJ-who-knows-what

A nice piece in Monday’s Wall Street Journal on knowledge management: Who Knows What? Finding in-house experts isn’t easy. But most companies make it harder than it should be. The article, by  Dorit Nevo, Izak Benbasat and Yair Wand, explores the expertise location benefits of enterprise 2.0. The authors describe the use of blogs, wikis, social… » Read More

Personal Knowledge Management and Compliance

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 at 8:00 am
boston km forum

Today, I am presenting at the Boston KM Forum on Personal Knowledge Management. My presentation is part an all-day symposium on personal knowledge management. My take on this subject is that knowledge management had been too focused on the benefits to the enterprise instead of the immediate benefits to the individual. Firehose of Information We… » Read More

Web 2.0, Knowledge Management and Professional Development

Thursday, October 15th, 2009 at 7:00 am
Mark Frydenberg

Mark Frydenberg is teaching a new, experimental class at Bentley University’s: CS 299 – Web 2.0: Technology, Strategy, Community. I am the experiment today, telling my story to his students. The focus of my presentation will be how I learned about Web 2.0, started using it as a knowledge management tool and how I now… » Read More

Happy Columbus Day

Monday, October 12th, 2009 at 7:00 am
columbus day

I decided to take the day off for Columbus Day. School is closed and the office is closed. Although, I posted this picture. So I guess I did something related to… » Read More

Federal Knowledge Management Working Group

Saturday, March 7th, 2009 at 8:00 am
fed_km_initiative_words_logo

The Federal Knowledge Management Working Group consists of over 700 Federal employees, contractors, academicians and interested members of the public who have mounted a campaign to enhance collaboration, knowledge and learning in the Federal Government by implementing formal knowledge management. Neil Olonoff, who is the leader for the initiative looking at the formation of a… » Read More

Knowledge Management Sites Search

Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 8:25 am

I have update my KM Sites search tool. The search below is built from a custom Google Search It searches the following sites: 3 Geeks and a Law Blog Aa..ha![Thinking Inside The Blog] Above and Beyond KM by Mary Abraham AcidLabs by Stephen Collins All of Us are Smarter Than Any of Us by Chris… » Read More

Knowledge Management and Compliance

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 11:15 pm

One of the reasons for moving from knowledge management to compliance was the overlap in concepts and some issues. Sumner Blount summarized a lunch talk from Scott Mitchell of OCEG discussing the need for a unified approach to managing risk and compliance: 1. The high cost of information silos – siloed approaches to risk and compliance… » Read More