Wednesday, September 17, 2003

Sharing knowledge with yourself. Jim McGee has some interesting thoughts on Personal responsibility for Knowledge Management (via Thought Horizon).  He says: I've concluded that one of the root problems with knowledge management is that I'm that lazy SOB. Until I start to do a better job of managing my own knowledge, why should I expect anyone else in the organization to do so? Weblogs are the first tool I've found that start me on the process of making my own knowledge more useful to me. The problem with getting more leverage out of knowledge work isn't somewhere out there in the organization. It's looking back at me in the mirror every morning. Worse than that, it's that lazy slob I was looking at in the mirror six months ago who was too busy then to put a halfway decent name on a file or save that really great diagram as its own file. Read it all... [justinknol.net - a stack of useful stuff] 8:15:50 PM

IBM touts infrastructure simplification. Playing off the cost-cutting mantra in most IT departments, IBM said it's developing tools and technologies aimed at helping customers simplify their IT infrastructures. [Computerworld News] 7:14:38 PM