Knowledge Management and Collaboration

Review: Rocketbook Beacons If you live on a whiteboard, the new $15 Rocketbook Beacons are a must-have. After Rocketbook sent me a set, it took me a while to test them. I no longer work in a world of whiteboards. I work from home and do most of my sketching …

A post pointing out the value of social media in driving serendipity. Serendipity and Milton’s First Folio outlines the discovery of the scholar through twitter, and eventually the unrecognized connection between the annotations she studied and John Milton’s handwriting.

This post was featured at eWeek. Creating a Microsoft Teams Structure A Microsoft Teams structure allows organizations to create containers for work. Those work containers can be as arbitrary as an organization allows. Controlling the architecture of a Teams implementation falls to policy and practice rather than technology. Ahead of …

Ten Tips for Effective Microsoft Teams Deployment Microsoft Teams wraps SharePoint in a collaborative UI. In its most simple form, Teams offers file management, conversations, and communications, along with a framework for integrating other features related to the work being done in the Team. Teams represent the governing structure. Channels …

The New Vulcan Inc. Holodome at Seattle’s MoPOP Offers Trippy View Into Future of VR Most virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (VR) experiences remain cumbersome. Although headsets have become lighter even as speed and resolution increases. But AR and VR participants still must don hardware for an experience. And …

Rasmus featured with KMWorld 2018 Presentation Highlight: AI Algorithms and the Black Box In his session at KMWorld 2018, titled “Rethinking KM for an Age of AI & IoT,” Serious Insights founder and principal analyst Daniel W. Rasmus explored the impact of AI and IoT on KM as machines get …

Is My Organization Ready for Knowledge Management? Is my organization ready for knowledge management? That may not seem like a common question, but it should be. Knowledge Management remains a critical investment for every organization. Understanding the value of intellectual property, nurturing innovations, capturing organizationally-specific expertise and leveraging data about …

KMWorld 2018: Knowledge Management in the Age of AI, IoT and XR On November 7, 2018, I gave a talk at KMWorld 2018 on knowledge management in the age of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT) and XR (AR/VR/Mixed reality). This is a post based on that talk. It …

Scenario Planning: How to Test Scenarios As an organization converges on a set of long-range scenarios, it typically wants to validate its scenarios. Since scenarios reflect logical speculations about the future, there is no right or wrong about them, but that does not mean that they cannot be validated for …

Knowledge and Expertise:  Mental work modes and switching mental gears Most knowledge work falls into three distinct modes: Knowledge synthesis Knowledge synthesis is usually a form of research characterized by reading, listening and watching with a goal in mind, a hypothesis that needs to be tested. We characterize this as downward …