This week I read an article in WSJ Whatever happened to KM by Thomas Davenport where he discusses some anecdotal and data driven evidence of a decreasing interest in knowledge management. I found the article interesting but it felt a lot like Anne Thomas Manes 2009 declaration on the death of SOA . The points […]
Category: Crew Change
Boiling the Frog – Human Factors around Sharing
The parable of the boiled frog is told to create a shared understanding around the key challenges in coping with change. Frog in Hot Water The story as told by many over the years is that if you put a frog in hot boiling water that it will immediately jump out as a natural response […]
Project Black Box – 1 -2 -3
Team to the Center.. It isn’t exactly what it seems.. About 10 years ago, my team implemented one of the first fully virtualized computing environments on a defense oriented platform. It was a pretty complex system with a 4 tier architecture. The software that we were sharing for end user productivity was called TeamCenter […]
Health Insurance Rates Make Early Retirement Appealing #CrewChange
Unforeseen Crew Change In an article written by The Motley Fool a study by the (CBO) Congressional Budget Office which I will include here projects “a drop in hours worked equivalent to having 2 million fewer full-time workers in the workplace in 2017.” “You may be eligible for deeply discounted health insurance Insurance premiums for […]
Knowledge Transfer / Continuity , Crew Change (May not be a problem after all)
What if I told you that in the next 5 years, the water in your pipes would stop flowing at some point. What you will need to do is build a backup pipe to the street and then divert the flow of water to make sure you have continuity of service. There will be […]