IBM Lotus Connections Videos on YouTube

Via Luis Suarez two videos on Lotus Connections, and its relation with knowledge management. The second video is a bit fluffy and stylish … but this might be OK, as long as it helps to demonstrate the potential of social software in the enterprise and gets “some discussions going as to where they can prove their own business value to knowledge workers or not”.

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In the meantime Luis has shared more information on the workings of IBM Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr, Lotus Notes 8 Beta 2 and Lotus Notes 8 Demo (“A Whole Lot More than Just Another E-Mail Client”).

IBMs Innovation Factory

Via Golem:

IBM startet unter dem Namen “Innovation Factory” eine Web-2.0-Lösung, die neue Ideen, Produkte und Dienstleistungen hervorbringen soll. Unternehmen sollen hier neue Ideen ersinnen und neue Produkte sowie Dienste testen, um damit schneller auf den Markt zu kommen.
[…] Dabei sollen Mitarbeiter ebenso einbezogen werden können wie Partner, Software-Entwickler und Mitglieder von Online-Communitys.

[…] Dabei bringt IBMs Lösung Techniken wie Blogs, Wikis, Social Tagging und Umfragen zusammen. So sollen sich Ideen schnell testen, eine Dokumentation aufsetzen und Support bei ersten Tests abwickeln sowie Feedback aufnehmen lassen.

Interessant, IBM ist ein Vorreiter beim Einsatz von Web 2.0-Konzepten (nicht nur im Innovationsmanagement, wenn ich mehr erfahre werde ich berichten …

Corporate uses of Web 2.0 technologies

Andrew McAfee provides another short insightful roundup on corporate uses of web 2.0 technologies like blogs, wikis, RSS, tagging, social bookmarking etc. In short, use them e.g. for:

  • collaborative production of documents (and meaning, understanding, commitment as I would add)
  • build a corporate encyclopedia, a “Wikipedia” for corporate data
  • as all-purpose teamware
  • a mega-adaptive ‘war room’ for fast-changing situations
  • spreading knowledge … and searching widely
  • ‘crowdsourcing,’ i.e. leveraging emergence by farming out tasks to a distributed crowd of people who decide individually and flexibly on what they want to work on

Knowledge Management Champion

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Via Patrick Lambe, this hilarious picture of a knowledge management champion. Yes, this seems to be no easy task, and is true for social software activists in the enterprise as well. But as one commenter noted this nice little creature bears some resemblance to Ganesha, the God of success and victory, he who removes obstacles …

Crossposting again …

Some more posts in my Business Model Innovation and Design blog that are worthy of being noted in this blog as well, same procedure as always.

Again, only posts that relate to innovation work, web 2.0 innovations, knowledge work and consulting:

The innovation fad is over … ah, not yet.

Payback on Innovation is what we need, listen to a podcast

Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle on co-working and here on the virtual workplace

Wikinomics @ brand eins german post, pointing to a german language interview with Don Tapscott

What is wikinomics? … learn more in a podcast

Innovationsmanagement @ Yahoo! german again, but some links to english language posts of interest

Storytellers make up the skills gap on storytelling (in knowledge work)

The Greatest Innovations of All Time on innovation management (and narrow-mindedness in innovation processes)

Teqlo zum zweiten on mash-ups, pointing to a nice screencast by Rod Boothby

Craig Burton in IT conversations … on the Enterprise of One, a discussion of how new technology has stripped the old business models away

A pointer to Henry Chesbrough on open innovation business models

It’s the strength of your business process versus those of your competitors … while implementation is hard

And last but not least, Russ Ackoff interview and some f-laws …

Diplomarbeit zu Tagging

Via Peruns Weblog: Eine Diplomarbeit zum Thema Tagging, geschrieben von Sascha A. Carlin.

Hier ein Zitat aus dem Fazit der Arbeit:

Die Forschung an Tagging und Folksonomy steht noch am Anfang. Doch die bereits publizierten Arbeiten lassen darauf schließen, dass Tagging durchaus noch längere Zeit ein interessantes Thema bleiben wird. Tagging kann und sollte klassische Indexierungsverfahren und Klassifikationen weder ersetzen noch ablösen. Es ist als Komplement zu den bestehenden Volltextsuchmaschinen auf der einen und strikt reglementierten Katalogen auf der anderen Seite zu sehen.

Interessant ist Tagging bzw. Folksonomies bspw. für das Wissens- und Innovationsmanagement, u.a. weil die Entdeckung von Mustern, Zusammenhängen und Trends durch die Visualisierung von Folksonomies (Tag Clouds etc.) erleichtert wird.

Useless Information

An Accenture survey has interesting key findings:

Managers spend up to two hours a day searching for information, and more than 50 percent of the information they obtain has no value to them. In addition, only half of all managers believe their companies do a good job in governing information distribution or have established adequate processes to determine what data each part of an organization needs.