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01.06.08And the “what is a knowledge worker” battle continues to rageI've read Matthew's response to Shawn's response to Matthew's response to Shawn's original post. Plus Dave Snowden's mind-blowing response to both Shawn and Matthew. I have to say, I still agree with Matthew. Identifying both knowledge work and workers is and remains crucial. I think Shawn's false dichotomy argument is spurious; he seems to want to have a situation where those that identify as knowledge workers in whatever way are framing themselves as some form of elite with a non-knowledge worker underclass. It's simply not the case. Especially given Shawn's argument about the ubiquity of knowledge work, there is only us. If ...
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12.28.07Knowledge worker - NOT a redundant termShawn Callahan of Anecdote argues that the need for the term knowledge worker is redundant now that technology is ubiquitous in the developed world and that almost every worker trades in knowledge of some sort. He sees its use as a way to discriminate between identified knowledge workers and those whose roles are not traditionally viewed this way: It's an dark undercurrent and tacitly becomes a basis for discrimination. "Our salespeople are knowledge workers but our gas fitters are not." I suspect this feeling of superiority comes from the erroneous data-information-knowledge model where knowledge (and even more ridiculously, wisdom) sits ...
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11.12.07On the inside, the roses grow - value in corporate bloggingWhile the title is a reference to a line in a song that was the theme of one of the mainstays of 1980s Australian television, it's also strongly reflective of my opinion on corporate blogging. Smart corporate blogging adoption is something that can have a marked effect in a number of areas in your organisation: perception of and actual corporate openness, particularly when the blogging is done across all levels of your organisation the degree to which a culture of knowledge sharing is adopted the feeling of connectedness and fraternity of staff at all levels with each other the ability of the organisation ...
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09.08.07Office 2.0 - Hear me roarMy brain is very full ¾ of the way through Office 2.0. There are some amazing things being discussed here, and I think there's enough of a business presence (rather than vendors and those who live in the Web 2.0 echo chamber) for some changes to take place. There are also some astounding new products on show - almost too many to take in in any sensible way. I've just given my presentation - I am Knowledge Worker 2.0 - Hear me roar which went really well. I got some great feedback from the audience and lots of ...
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08.17.07Power to the peopleHere's the deck I presented at the IIM National Conference yesterday. It's a look at the shift in the nature of KM, knowledge work and knowledge workers and what their organisations can do to make their own and their employees' lives easier. For those reading via feed who can't see the embed, here's a link. The presentation went over really well. It's always good when passionate but friendly discussion takes place after you give a presentation. It's even better when you have audience members approach you and let you know that they were delighted to see a more visual, ...
