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The intersection between HR strategy and HR technology

Knowledge Mgmt

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    Managing Thinking, Managing Knowledge

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    On March 2, 2011, Pakistan’s Minister for Minority Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated.  Like others before him (including Benazir Bhutto), he was killed for standing up for the right of Pakistanian citizens to believe in whatever they wanted to believe.  In this case, Bhatti was a Christian, and (to his detriment) was outspoken about it. …

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    The Singularity

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    What is “the singularity?” It’s basically the Terminator movie in practice.  The singularity predicts that there is a point where computers become so intelligent that they are able to self replicate, they are able to generate knowledge at a supremely faster rate than humans can, and that eventually humans become unnecessary.  There are a couple…

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    Cycling Concepts and HR: Time Trials

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    In cycling, the time trial is also known as the race of truth.  It is the only time in cycling (triathlons excluded as that’s not real cycling…) where you are not allowed to draft or engage in team tactics.  In the time trial, it’s all about you and your abilities.  In HR, there are some…

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    Enterprise 2.0 Diagram

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    I ran across this quite interesting and comprehensive e2.0 diagram and thought I’d share.  I like how it’s organized with Actors, Technologies and Methods as part of the engine behind e2.0, but as usual I have a few comments. I probably would have phrased the Business Drivers differently – perhaps removing it as one of…

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    Diagramming Web 2.0 versus Enterprise 2.0

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    I like pictures.  CIPD published a paper that was honestly quite annoying, but contained a couple of little gems.  I was annoyed because the paper was entitled Web 2.0 and HR, but it never got past defining what Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 are and getting to the point of how all this is pertinent…

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    Wiki as Knoweldge Management

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    We all have them in our organizations.  These wonderful islands of preserved knowledge: databases of content that have been donated over time for consumption by the broader corporate population.  Once the dreams and hopes of management types that have dwindled down to exasperation as content has stagnated and catalogs confused.  Content managers were usually “champions”…

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    Collaboration is Innovation

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    When it comes to innovation, the myth of the lone genius dies hard. Most companies continue to assume that innovation comes from that individual genius, or, at best, small, sequestered teams that vanish from sight and then return with big ideas. But the truth is most innovations are created through networks — groups of people…

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    Evolving from Knowledge Management to Innovation Networking

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    Knowledge management was all the rage a decade ago.  People realized the need to maintain institutional and intellectual capital as employees filtered into an organization, created new knowledge, and then often left the organization leaving little trace of the knowledge they developed and didn’t share effectively.  But knowledge management didn’t really take off as a…

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    Educating for a Lifetime

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    With rapid changes in technology, the business environment, and the dynamic nature of knowledge usability in the modern world, managing one’s career becomes increasingly difficult. Necessity dictates that employees not only change careers more often as their interests change and their knowledge becomes obsolete, but they need to retrain and re-educate more often as well.…

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    HBR – P2P and Web 2.0 Leadership Development

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    In 1995, two young U.S. Army officers who had been friends at West Point found themselves living down the street from each other at a base near Honolulu.  Nate Allen and Tony Burgess were both in their first stints as company commanders, each responsible for three platoons, or about 120 soldiers.  At the end of…

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    Hot HR Issues – Part 2

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    The Conference Board of Canada did an interview with Dave Ulrich where he stated “the 21st century will belong to human resources and to organizational capabilities.” ((Thanks to Romain of unknow origin for pointing me to the Conference Board of CA’s website an a comment here)) ((The Conference Board of Canada, August 2004. “Hot HR…

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    KM and Learning organizations

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    Gautam turned me onto this blog. So… What IS up with HR and Knowledge Management? I don’t hesitate to wonder about HR’s motivation when it comes to KM. Truly, when we talk about “strategic HR” and the fact that as we head into 20xx we face huge workforce knowledge issues as a generation retires. We…

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    Employee Development and Workforce Planning

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    Actually, I just like validation, especially when it comes within a week of my posts. This Brittish article hilights some of the salient points I’ve been making over the last couple of weeks regarding workforce planning and knowledge management. More than a quarter of the current working U.S. population will reach retirement age by 2010.…