Organizational Learning

Communities of Practice, Virality, and Josh Billings

Apr 29, 2018

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In this last post for the semester, I am going to try and relate the three articles as well as discuss what I (and maybe my classmates) learned. We may not have internalized it, but at least we saw it. I picked up several articles this weekend and put them aside; they just didn’t call…

Déjà vu

Apr 16, 2018

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I picked up the Ackerman article and was immediately struck with a sense of Déjà vu. I am sure I have read this paper before. In fact, it’s in my references for EndNote citations. For the life of me, I cannot figure out where I read it previously or why. I looked in my usual…

Terrible things, yes, but great

Mar 23, 2018

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in Codification, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Sharing, Organizational Learning, Posts, Thoughts, and Musings, Stories, Tacit Knowledge

Wow, what a couple of weeks! Who would have thought that a company would be in the middle of a scandal about using Facebook data without permission against us? Oh wait, that’s happened before… Well, at least Cambridge Analytica did something really new with it. It sort of feels like we are living in the…

It’s an occupational hazard kind of thing…

Mar 1, 2018

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When you study something, you start to see it everywhere. I’m a competitive intelligence manager at work. I help sales people sell better or product teams build a better product, depending on who you talk to. Sometimes I do both. Lately I’ve been selecting knowledge management articles about knowledge transfer, competitive advantage, and learning. As Alex…

If you don’t write it down, it will never happen

Feb 17, 2018

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in Digital Libraries, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Sharing, Organizational Learning, Posts, Thoughts, and Musings, Tacit Knowledge

Last week, the blog post was about adages, and how they represent lessons learned. This week, after reading about codification and economics, I’m looking at how people encode knowledge. This week’s articles (see Bibliography, below) have returned to the idea of somehow encoding knowledge; which, because we are all unique individuals, ultimately become unique knowledge…

Bandwidth

Feb 10, 2018

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in Knowledge Management, Knowledge Sharing, Organizational Learning, Posts, Thoughts, and Musings, Stories

“The major explanation for the lack of productive cooperation between the universities is to be found in their sense of competition with one another”. A fascinating article by Collins (1974) offers insights about how knowledge diffuses across practitioners of common scientific craft but also how they don’t truly trust one another. I could contrast that…

Adages, Idioms, Proverbs, are Lessons Learned

Feb 4, 2018

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This post continues the saga of organization’s learning practices; tacit, or unwritten knowledge; and how things ultimately get better. Based on the commentary by JennNippert, I elected to read the article by Brown and Duguid. I decided to add some other articles that sounded cool and since I worked on the Space Shuttle program, a…

Sea Stories and Fairy Tales

Feb 1, 2018

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matthewc100

in Knowledge Management, Organizational Learning, Posts, Thoughts, and Musings

What’s the difference between a sea story and a fairy tale? Fairy tales start, “Once upon a time…” and sea stories start, “No shit, there I was…” I may have mentioned this before: I am a movie buff and I love using movie scenes as allegories and metaphors to illustrate a point. Sadly, this does…

Category: Organizational Learning