March 2005 archives

March 28, 2005 by Patti

Talent Management

I’ve been connecting with Robin Athey this week. She’s one of the SNA network (KM cluster, Network Roundtable). Her current focus is on talent management, and she’s just published with Deloitte the first in a series of articles on the topic. This first one, It’s 2008: Do you Know Where Your Talent Is? presents the [...]

March 25, 2005 by Patti

Complexity, Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space

The AOK conversation with Dave Snowden continues to provide insights and perspectives on how others are working with complexity. Following a post by Dave Pollard, I reviewed his blog on Appreciative Inquiry, Complex Systems, and the Four Practices of Open Space. Pollard describes the similarity in the models of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and Cynefin by [...]

March 24, 2005 by Patti

Meeting David Gurteen

While in London last week, I had the pleasure of meeting David Gurteen f2f. I have pounced on his monthly newsletters for some time as they are always full of good insights, information, and connectivity. We had a delightful breakfast, hosted by Martyn Laycock, prior to the London Innovation conference. Martyn had a booth promoting [...]

March 22, 2005 by Patti

Knowledge Amnesty

I loved teaching the Master Class in SNA. The class coalesced well and I think had a good time as well as a good learning experience. One of the class, Graeme Hawley from the National Library of Scotland, is building SNA into his overall strategy for “wisdom management.” I particularly liked his idea of including [...]

March 22, 2005 by Patti

Comment from Bill Ives

Apparently my blog’s commenting capability went south. I am not sure it is back. (Anyone who’d like to comment, please help me test it!). What I like about Bill’s comment is that it uses the “B” word — boundary. I am just beginning to understand more about the notion of the boundaries between sense making [...]