It's all about people and networks

29 August 2003

SAP introduces community of practice to accelerate products, and blog Shai Agassi from SAP announced to use communities of practice (though sometimes he just referred to as 'networks') to: ..facilitate the transfer of knowledge and information among all of the various technical groups who are working with SAP NetWeaver and SAP xApps. SAP customers, partners and newcomers to the SAP ecosystem will find detailed technical information on evaluating, implementing, using and building with these technologies.. Not only that, but SAP also seems to include blog technology in their suite of collaborative tools. In their internal blog Vis Naidu makes a strange statement: In the endless pursuit of creating a more manageable Portal, segregating content by interest group or organizational unit could be the most ideal approach! (read it in his entry 'Communities of Practice' - could they be the solution to better Portal content management ? if you can) To be continued..   This happened at 12:24:23 AM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback []

05 August 2003

K-Log Productivity: Time to find and availability Last week John Robb summarized the benefits of K-logs for the information worker; quoting a report from WC of CIOs "knowledge workers spend 35% of their productive time searching for information, while 40% of the corporate users report that they cannot find the information they need to do their jobs on their Intranets" Three major reasons why companies can benefit from using K-logs: they break down the silos they simplify information finding easier to capture meaningful information The full article can be read here. I would add myself to that that K-logs allow individuals or groups to put information in a certain context, turning information to knowledge (hence the K).   This happened at 11:31:13 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback []