A snapshot of the managerial and economical trends over the last decades helps build an understanding of management that makes the authoritarian figure of senior management - built by Taylor, Fayol and Chandler - history.

The first element is quality management.

It is based on the fact that in a world of abundance, the supply side is […]

Initially published on the Headshift’s blog.
The market for Enterprise 2.0 is booming. Client attention is high as blog readership and conference attendance figures demonstrate it. Individual actors know it as they see both their turnover and workforce growing. Reports from analysts confirm it. This is good news: pioneers can have a decent living
But […]

Initially published on the Headshift’s blog.
Jack Vinson recently reported the NY-Toronto Law Firm KM Summit 2008 in Boston, in which he writes about the distinction between KM and Enterprise 2.0. It’s not the first time this sort of distinction is being made. In reality it is a common process for those who try to get […]

During my PhD, I focussed on the required elements for managing in a knowledge economy.
My initial assumption was that one cannot manage an organisation with recipes from the 20’s or the 50’s because at that time the economy was different: physicallity (not knowledge) was proeminent. This has given me the opportunity to venture into many […]

Here is the material of a presentation I gave at the British Council in Singapore for the Information & Knowledge Management Society (IKMS).
It is built along those lines:
- The changing nature of organisations, work and workplace
- How knowledge management is the principal “movement” for supporting this change
- How social computing is part of the KM […]