Creativity Intelligence - CQ

An emerging school of thought is around Creativity Intelligence or CQ.  NussbaumOnDesign had an interesting post about CQ recently that I recommend you read.

There appears to have been a dumbing down of corporate intelligence.  No, people and corporations are not dumb.  What I've seen and experienced is the propensity to try and bring organizational structures and strictures to a common framework.  Often this accomplishes little and actually brings everyone down to the lowest common denominator.  This reinforces and does the opposite of what is intended.  People aren't encouraged to do more then their job requires.  It gets to the point where there is little or no passion around being creative, learning and applying knowledge.  What company's need to do is encourage creativity, not stifle it through HR policies.

One of my pet peeves is the way Human Resource organization in the U.S.A. seem to have accomplished the dumbing down of corporate life through standardization.  The goals were admirable, but the results are a homogeneous blah.    The fallacy of fairness I like to call it.  We hear that "we need to treat everyone fairly" and so HR implemented grade bands, and midpoints, and uniform review processes.  Yet no where do they take into account IQ or even CQ.  There is no flexibility there is no diversity of thought or action.

European Identity Conference 2010

http://www.kuppingercole.com/events/eic2010/agenda

Munich Germany

European Identity Conference (EIC) is the place to meet with enterprise technologists, thought leaders and experts to learn about, discuss and shape the market in most significant technology topics such as Identity Management, Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) and Cloud Computing.

KM World 2010

www.kmworld.com/kmw10

November 16 to 18 2010 at the Renaissance Washington, D.C. Hotel

The Experts Conference

The Experts Conference - Los Angelese, CA

Welcome to The Experts Conference (TEC) 2010! For the 9th consecutive year, the TEC team will deliver expert-led, 400-level training on vital Microsoft technologies. In addition to its highly-acclaimed training on Microsoft Directory & Identity technologies, TEC 2010 will bring back a full agenda of Exchange training, staging the world’s leading authorities on Microsoft's powerful messaging platform. And, this year, for the first time ever, we are pleased to introduce an entirely new TEC for SharePoint training conference!

KMI Certified Knowledge Manager Training 5-day workshop

KMI Certified Knowledge Manager Training 5-day workshop, 19 – 23 April 2010, Basel, Switzerland

Interactive 5 day workshop supported by extensive eLearning program

Workshop Leaders: Barry Hardy, Beat Knechtli, Pavel Kraus, Michael
Wyrsch, Stephan Bohr, Douglas Weidner

Topics:
Knowledge Management (KM) Concepts, KM Practices, Business Case, Strategy, Program Planning, KM Frameworks
KM & Organisational Culture & Development, Change Management for KM Programs, Leadership and Competencies for KM
Knowledge Assessment, Metrics, Enterprise Knowledge Management, Process-oriented Knowledge Management, Knowledge Mapping
Benchmarking, Expertise Location, Search, Personal Knowledge Management, Web 2.0, Communities, Collaboration

Instructors
Pavel Kraus, President, Swiss Knowledge Management Forum and Partner, aht'intermediation
Beat Knechtli, Director, Chief Knowledge Officer, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Zurich
Michael Wyrsch, Vice President and Leader Knowledge Management Competence Center, Credit Suisse
Stephan Bohr, Global Knowledge Management Leader Advisory (EMEA), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
Barry Hardy, PhD, Director, Community of Practice & Research Activities, Douglas Connect
Douglas Weidner, President, International Knowledge Management Institute

More Information: http://www.douglasconnect.com/html/knowledge.htm

Program Brochure (pdf):
http://douglasconnect.com/files/KMTrainingBrochure.PDF

Contact: Dr. Barry Hardy, email: kmls -(at)- douglasconnect.com,
+41 61 851 0170

Privacy Theatre

The fabulously written post Privacy Theater: Why Social Networks Only Pretend To Protect You on Tech Crunch by Rohit Khare is a must read for those even moderately interested in digital identity.  The post speaks to the fact that despite cleverly written Terms of Service agreements the social networking site still treat the individuals digital identity as if they own it and not the individual.  This is much the same as with individual medical records were the providers (doctors, clinics, hospitals, the government) believe that they not the individual, whose data they have collected, own the information.

"I’d argue that the hapless state of ToS enforcement by the major social network platforms only provides the feeling of improved privacy while doing little or nothing to actually improve privacy: that’s privacy theater."

The scary thing, as pointed out in this article, is that as an individual you don't have access to the full set of the information you own but the social networking sites do.  These social networking sites have no qualms providing it for cold hard cash to data aggregation companies.

The Case for Collaboration and Security

David Coleman of Collaborative Strategies has posed a very relevant item around the need to collaborate on security.  The post is titled "The Challenge of Collaboration AND Security".