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Andrew McAfee Must Have Been Quite Persuasive …

February 25, 2008 in Main Page | 1 comment

I don’t think it was as a result of Andrew’s presentation at the recent FASTForward 08 conference, but may have been related to the recent Enterprise 2.0 / KM discussion reported on this blog involving Tom Davenport and Andrew McAfee, moderated by colleague Jim McGee.

David Gurteen reports in his most recent newsletter that Tom Davenport has agreed to understand that social software and social computing has a growing and perhaps central role in the ongoing evolution of knowledge work.

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February 25, 2008 at 1:28 pm

Anonymous

Thanks for the multiple heads up. I think you are spot on in identifying the contribution of 2.0 as “just in time”.
The difference between developing shared knowledge and a “command-and-control” approach is massive. Even the Army develops knowledge lower down. Researchers have non-General ranks by and large.
A basic rule of thumb is that conventional armies are whipped if they have to take part in a civil war or in rugged territory where size becomes a liability.
I think it might be time to identify which businesses and which processes in businesses benefit from just-in-time and which don’t.