efios     Efios home Weblog     The efios blog: "It's all about people and networks"       05 April 2004 Disruptive innovation and strategic learning There are more and more articles available on the relationships between leadership, knowledge ecology and management and (disruptive) innovation. When we started working on the position papers that created an understanding of the crucial relationship between communities of practice and disruptive / radical innovation (see documents) there were hardly any academic or commercial papers on these topics. Even the San Francisco Chronical published a piece on Clayton Christensen (if you still do not have 'the innovator's solution, buy it now) Also, BN net released a new paper the other day, which has some of these elements and (again) they seem to use the action-learning cycle (they called it "learn, focus, align and execute). They say on their website about this 'strategic learning' (though they never come clear on why they put the focus on learning?) paper, which is free of charge: How can established organizations create the capacity for ongoing adaptation? This paper provides a practical leadership process for creating an adaptive enterprise by mobilizing a dynamic cycle of four steps: learn, focus, align and execute. This happened at 11:18:07 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] Sharepoint as supporting technology for communities After being pointed by Ross Wirth to his new initative to start some conversation around "using communities and KM with Sharepoint" I signed up for the new Yahoo! group. There is reasonable scepticism about the quality of Sharepoint for communities, though it has some virtues as well. An interesting point to bring up in the conversation within the group is whether or not Sharepoint has acutally quality conversational functionalities in its message forum - many question this. Considered to be of the cornerstones of communities, the discussion part in any technology must be quality to engage a community. James Edelen in his (Sharepoint oriented) weblog agrees: The Discussion mechanism of SharePoint sucks. The UI isn't very good, but that is a topic for a different post. SharePoint Discussions are supposed to be conversations, much like blog posts, but again, I never seem to know when someone responded to one of my comments. This becomes worse when you take into account that I could potentially be participating in tens to hundreds of discussion lists. I don't have the time or the desire to go to each list and find my postings and check to see if they have been updated! This happened at 10:46:15 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] AOK Star series with Dave Pollard Dave Pollard has been coordinating the AOK forum for two weeks; there were many interesting discussions about communities of practice and blogging, , virtual community building (Steve Denning), Community and Transparency Analogies (Chris Mcrae) and many more (up to #357). Dave conveys his experience in his blog: THE ESSENCE OF KNOWLEDGE. One problem of blogs is that, since they are principally organized in reverse date order (i.e. most recent at the top), some profound wisdom falls off the bottom of each page every day and, unless special effort is made to keep it in people's minds, it is effectively lost forever. Euan Semple brought to my attention one such wise post, by the incomparable Doc Searls, written almost three years ago about the essence of knowledge, and what that implies for the role of blogs in business and for Knowledge Management (KM). For the past two weeks I have had the honour of moderating the Association of KnowledgeWork (AOK) online forum, in a wide-ranging discussion of precisely this topic. Here is what I learned from that experience: This happened at 10:32:53 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] © Copyright 2005 Erik van Bekkum. April 2004 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30   Mar   May Blog categories: (All) Innovation Social Networks Blogging Knowledge Garden: Communities Social Networks Blogroll: Daily reads Blog of CI Patti Anklam Andy Boyd Georg Siemens Lilia Efimova Debby at Pepperdine Renee Hopkins Dave Pollard on BI Ton Zijlstra (Engish) Ton Zijlstra (Dutch) Social software channel Stephanie Allen's COP^2 Matt's blog Joe Corthrel Ross Mayfield Sam Ruby Staurt Henshall Terry Frazier Chris McRae David Gurteen 25 most recent: Double - loop learning and social learning Systems... 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