Full Circle Associates

Dang, after a day of no blogging while in meetings it was fun to start my blogreading with a lead from Stephen Downes to an article by Matthew: Collaboration First, Then Knowledge Management .

I work with distributed teams and the challenges, symptoms and indicators Clapp talk about ring true. Collaboration is tactical first, strategic second and shoe horning it into a knowledge repository goes counter to the needs of the team IN THE MOMENT of getting work done.

Clapp offers some advice which addresses meeting team needs (pay attention to his advice to pilot before big investments in technology!!) but still begs the problem of moving team-mined knowledge and insights out across an organization. I guess we aren't there yet!