Delta Knowledge

“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”                                                        …

A few years ago (only 2018 but it feels like a decade ago after COVID) I had an opportunity as part of the Creative Melbourne conference to sit down …

The power of a leader to shape and limit the capability of an organisation has fascinated me since I did my masters thesis. I have always tried to s…

Benedikt Sheerer is one of the up and coming young guys in the KM world.  I like his fresh approach, eager passion for social collaboration and the p…

Corporate Politics... "the process and behavior in human interactions involving power and authority" I used to hate it. Managers stab…

Are you a man or a microbe? You're human right? So you would always choose a surgeon over a microbiologist to fix your medical problem. But…

In response to my post a few days ago about Agile KM and also to a direct question to him, Stan Garfield kindly wrote this blog post in reply. I…

I am reviewing a bunch of KM material at the moment as I develop KMRt's new KM101 course. Several people have been very generous to allow me to…

A while ago I wrote this post about culture and its effects on Enterprise 2.0 implementations. In the meantime, Mark Masterson wrote this cracker o…

Seeing Cultural Differences Cognitive science views culture as the combined mental maps (or schemas) built up through people's shared lives. Unde…

I have been fascinated over the last few weeks to see what is described here as " Twitter content or garbage ", however I view it a little …

In this final section I try to draw all these parts together and quickly discuss some ideas for how they can be applied in the real world. If you ha…

Today I am covering the critical factor of Trust. Trust is a factor of successful collaboration that is mentioned nearly as much as culture, so it’s…

5. The central ingredients (part 2) A Theory of Action Organisations are complex adaptive systems however, good models such as Argyris & Schön’s …

The big advantage to splitting a paper like this up is: You can digest each part before moving on, and If you fell asleep during the last post, hopef…

“The real difficulty in changing any enterprise lies not in developing new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones” - John Mayand Keynes. Today, in …

Still here? Fantastic, this post will be brief but very important. Today I discuss arguably the most famous (certainly the most cited) anthropologist…

In the next two posts of creating knowledge cultures I start to critique some of the big thinkers in culture theory. It is a brave move. Many of th…