Will I be seeing you next week at Digital Identity World?
Next week will be the 2007 version of Digital Identity World in San Francisco. I will be traveling from the Heartland of the USA to San Francisco for this event. If you are going to be there, send me an email and lets get together and talk about KM and digital identity. There are a number of interesting and I think KM relevant session at this years DIDW: Understanding OpenID and the early implementations, Identity as a service, What's possible in an identity enabled world.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Federated Collaboration
There is a nice piece in KM World about collaboration 3.0 - The Collaboration 3.0 approach. We won't go into a discussion of the '3.0'. What I found interesting is what I call Federated Collaboration.
The author does not use the term Federated Collaboration, but he is refering to it in describing how Boeing is using it to build design and build the new Dreamliner aircarft (B787). Boeing is designing and building this aircraft collaboratively with its business partners through the use collaborative technology. This is amazing in itself and undoubtedly has cost Boeing an impressive amount of resources.
Key issues raised in the article are compliance, informatinon security, governance. These issues must be addressed via some mechanism. A mechanism that is often overlooked by the knowledge management and collaboration community. That mechanism in my opinion is Federated Digital Identity. There can be no high value federated collaboration without an underlying understanding of WHO is collaborating, WHAT they can collaborate on, WHEN the can have collaborative access, and HOW they have access to the collaborative environment. This can only be accomplished when a common framework for digital identity is used - Federated Digital Identity.
The author does not use the term Federated Collaboration, but he is refering to it in describing how Boeing is using it to build design and build the new Dreamliner aircarft (B787). Boeing is designing and building this aircraft collaboratively with its business partners through the use collaborative technology. This is amazing in itself and undoubtedly has cost Boeing an impressive amount of resources.
Key issues raised in the article are compliance, informatinon security, governance. These issues must be addressed via some mechanism. A mechanism that is often overlooked by the knowledge management and collaboration community. That mechanism in my opinion is Federated Digital Identity. There can be no high value federated collaboration without an underlying understanding of WHO is collaborating, WHAT they can collaborate on, WHEN the can have collaborative access, and HOW they have access to the collaborative environment. This can only be accomplished when a common framework for digital identity is used - Federated Digital Identity.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Perpetual Conversations
I just read the The adversity of knowledge in KMWorld. The article is by Davide Weinberger and covers Jack Welch's (of GE fame) book.
The article is by Davide Weinberger and covers Jack Welch's (of GE fame) book. While the article was an interesting summarization of Welch's views re integrity and adversity (as Weinberger puts it). What I found most useful was the last paragraph of the article titled "Perpetual conversation". Specifically Weinberger points out that collaborative environments that embrace many points of view and are and are in prepetual conversation are where knowledge finds its integrity.
I have experienced this many times recently in online community discussions where people from diverse backgrounds and points of view converse on topics such as KM and Value Networks. Often these collaborators do not see eye-to-eye, but through the course of the collaborative conversation come to appreciate the integrity of each contributors view points. These perpetual conversations create/enhance the collaborators knowledge of a given subject within the constructs of their environment - there really are no losers as Weinberger says.
The article is by Davide Weinberger and covers Jack Welch's (of GE fame) book. While the article was an interesting summarization of Welch's views re integrity and adversity (as Weinberger puts it). What I found most useful was the last paragraph of the article titled "Perpetual conversation". Specifically Weinberger points out that collaborative environments that embrace many points of view and are and are in prepetual conversation are where knowledge finds its integrity.
I have experienced this many times recently in online community discussions where people from diverse backgrounds and points of view converse on topics such as KM and Value Networks. Often these collaborators do not see eye-to-eye, but through the course of the collaborative conversation come to appreciate the integrity of each contributors view points. These perpetual conversations create/enhance the collaborators knowledge of a given subject within the constructs of their environment - there really are no losers as Weinberger says.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
BI Saves the day
El Reg has an article that clearly shows how great value can be delivered from a BI system.
Having experienced first hand some of Overstock.com's ERP woes back in 2005 I dug into this story from El Reg.
Ending a nightmare - Overstock's data center journey
Some would argue the article highlights the difficulty of implementing ERP, but regardless of how you look at it, BI did in fact help Overstock.com out of a bad situation. The technology now provides the company with a competitive advantage. Clearly the company stumbled by not moving sooner or better managing their ERP implemenation. Perhaps they could have done better had they better leveraged up-front analysis and requirements work, but in the end the BI system kept the company moving forward until the combined ERP/BI systems were fully in place.
Having experienced first hand some of Overstock.com's ERP woes back in 2005 I dug into this story from El Reg.
Ending a nightmare - Overstock's data center journey
Some would argue the article highlights the difficulty of implementing ERP, but regardless of how you look at it, BI did in fact help Overstock.com out of a bad situation. The technology now provides the company with a competitive advantage. Clearly the company stumbled by not moving sooner or better managing their ERP implemenation. Perhaps they could have done better had they better leveraged up-front analysis and requirements work, but in the end the BI system kept the company moving forward until the combined ERP/BI systems were fully in place.
Friday, May 11, 2007
Update to KM News Web Site
The KM News web site has been updated with a new database driven Technology; Tools section.
It has been a long time in coming and is finally here...
The Technology; Tools section of the KM News web site has been updated to include a new database driven layout.
It is a clean slate for 2007. All of the old, and mostly outdated information has been maintained in several archives available from the Technology & Tools menu.
Anyone can add a technology or tool to the system and after validation by the editor it will be available for all to see. Take a look and submit relevant KM technologies, tools or service offerings.
To submit a new technology, tool or service offering you can select "Submit" from the Technology & Tools menu or within the "Listing" you can click the "Add a Record" icon.
Enjoy!
It has been a long time in coming and is finally here...
The Technology; Tools section of the KM News web site has been updated to include a new database driven layout.
It is a clean slate for 2007. All of the old, and mostly outdated information has been maintained in several archives available from the Technology & Tools menu.
Anyone can add a technology or tool to the system and after validation by the editor it will be available for all to see. Take a look and submit relevant KM technologies, tools or service offerings.
To submit a new technology, tool or service offering you can select "Submit" from the Technology & Tools menu or within the "Listing" you can click the "Add a Record" icon.
Enjoy!
Friday, March 9, 2007
The missing BI link
Consolidation in the BI space is picking up speed, similar to a snow ball rolling down a hill. HP has jumped into the game and Oracle recently announced the acquisition of Hyperion Solutions. I don't have an opinion on if this consolidation is good or bad, but I do think it was bound to happen.
What I find interesting is that there is a missing piece to what is going on in the BI industry. No vendor seems to be focusing on how to efficiently gather and document the user requirements for BI systems.
What got me thinking about this topic is my work with BI Pathfinder and a recent article in InformationWeek, Query: What's Next In BI? There are billions of dollars being spent on BI tools, but very little of that is being spent to better identify what is truly valuable to the decision makers in organizations.
I believe that the next wave in BI will be tools that allow the designers of BI systems to present decision makers with relevant and timely information that helps them assess status and find problems.
What I find interesting is that there is a missing piece to what is going on in the BI industry. No vendor seems to be focusing on how to efficiently gather and document the user requirements for BI systems.
What got me thinking about this topic is my work with BI Pathfinder and a recent article in InformationWeek, Query: What's Next In BI? There are billions of dollars being spent on BI tools, but very little of that is being spent to better identify what is truly valuable to the decision makers in organizations.
I believe that the next wave in BI will be tools that allow the designers of BI systems to present decision makers with relevant and timely information that helps them assess status and find problems.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Good Reading
Check out two really good books from Jay Cross of internettime.com fame.
I was spending some time catching up on my reading tonight and realized I had not plugged a couple of really good books from Jay Cross at Internet Time. The first book is Informal Learning and the second is Implementing E-Learning. Check them out, I think you will find either of them incredibly valuable.
I first met Jay several years back at the S.F. Bay Area Knowledge Management Roundtable that I led. Jay has some incredible insights into not only KM but e-learning.� You will want to read both of these books. You can find links to Amazon in the Reading section of KM News.
I was spending some time catching up on my reading tonight and realized I had not plugged a couple of really good books from Jay Cross at Internet Time. The first book is Informal Learning and the second is Implementing E-Learning. Check them out, I think you will find either of them incredibly valuable.
I first met Jay several years back at the S.F. Bay Area Knowledge Management Roundtable that I led. Jay has some incredible insights into not only KM but e-learning.� You will want to read both of these books. You can find links to Amazon in the Reading section of KM News.
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