I’m back in San Diego again for a series of meetings and if things work out I am going to spending a lot more time here. It has fond memories for me of the early Delphi group knowledge management conferences held in the Hotel Del. It was where I first met Peter Drucker and […]
My other vivid memory of Peter Drucker (and it still hurts) was when I naively criticised Taylorism and ended up on the receiving end of an I knew Frederick Taylor response during which I was reduced to a puddle of humiliation. The great man decided I might be redeemable, something for which I am eternally grateful […]
This is the first in what will be an occasional series of posts in which I want to examine, in the context of change the role of the individual, that individual’s identity as part of society and the affordances provided thereof. To be clear this is an exploration and I am using this blog to play […]
It is fashionable in systems thinking and complexity circles to use Scientific Management as the demon by which sainthood is defined. In my early days in the field I also tended to do this. The first shock to my system was when I made the mistake of expressing that sentiment in the presence of Peter […]
We ended episode 3 of this series with the Cynefin framework in a recognisable form after well over a decade of evolution. In this penultimate episode (and its not he hero's journey so the mentor will not die) I want to talk about one of the most fertile periods of work which spans the last […]
Let me start off my making it clear that I have an affection for Delphi Group and for its leader Tom Koulopoulos who is more human than his PR machine would have you believe. If it hadn’t been for Delphi many years I would have not met and spent time with Peter Drucker and I […]
There used to be three big KM conferences every year. KM World over in Santa Clara and then KM Asia and KM Europe both of which were run by the Ark Group. APQC of course have run a major event every year which continues. Delphi had a great event in San Deigo (the first time […]
The new(ish) US government KM listserv is proving interesting although its not very active yet. However some real issues and valuable exchanges are taking place. This morning I got the latest posting which I reproduce below (with names removed). The author is commenting on another forum where a writer says “traditional KM thinking is not […]
I was a little surprised by the nature of Shawn’s reaction to my disagreement with his original and bold assertion that Drucker’s concept of the knowledge worker was dead. He made a serious, if controversial statement and I put some effort into a considered reply, which also attempted to take the debate forward. Shawn up […]
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