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Gurteen Knowledge-Letter: Issue 10 - 29th March 2001 |
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The Gurteen Knowledge Letter is a monthly newsletter that is distributed to members of the Gurteen Knowledge Community. You may receive the Knowledge Letter by joining the community. Membership is totally free. You may read back-copies here. THE GURTEEN KNOWLEDGE-LETTER (ISSUE 10, 29 MARCH 2001) ====================================================== Welcome to the 10th issue of the Gurteen Knowledge-Letter. You may notice a slightly different tone to this month's knowledge-letter. By profession I am not a writer or journalist so putting these letters together is still a learning (read struggling!) experience for me. I've tried to make them personal and to avoid corporate-like gobbledegook. But one or two of you have pointed out that its my views and opinions that interest them as much as the resources - so I have made a conscious effort to be just that little bit more personal and opinionated about things.:-) CONTENTS ======== 1 - Knowledge, People and Power 2 - Groove Update 3 - Quotations: Albert Einstein on Human Beings 4 - Know your value? 5 - The Coffeemachine Lecture, 11th April, London 6 - Quick Clicks 7 - Microsoft Announces "HailStorm" 8 - Michael Porter on Strategy 9 - Events KNOWLEDGE, PEOPLE AND POWER =========================== Regular readers will be aware by now of my interest in the growing shift in power to the individual and their increasingly central role in the new economy. So I am always on the lookout for events that confirm this trend. Well a friend of mine Sheila Moorcroft who is a consultant with Business Futures recently told me about a series of forums that they are running this year - International Futures Forum 2001 - Knowledge, People and Power. These forums will examine the trends and issues shaping this shift in power to the individual and the development of increased technical and emotional connectivity; the ways in which new forms of knowledge, consciousness and individual potential might develop; and the implications for markets, communities and organizations. Participants are able to attend three international workshops: · Extending individuals - new ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ technologies for extending individuals’ connectivity, knowledge and power - Stockholm May 2001 · Harnessing minds - the challenge facing organizations to harness the diversity that is both the individual and the organization - Montreal September 2001 · Creating sustainable communities - the role of communities in reconciling the interests of the individual and the many - London November 2001 Take a look! For details of the forums, themes and membership options: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0005452E?open&r=1&p=0 For more about BusinessFutures: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0002DB9A?open&r=1&p=0 GROOVE UPDATE ============= Thanks to the great response to my request for people to help evaluate Groove. Although we had a lot of activity for a week or two it has since died off. But its not dead - if you joined up please come back on board and lets re-kindle the discussion and evaluation. If you didn't but would like to click the discussion link below for details of how to download Groove and join the discussion space. Finally, some interesting news - Groove has struck a development agreement with Microsoft as part of its HailStorm technology announced recently - see section on HailStorm and .NET below. http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO58905,00.html Groove Networks: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00024376?open&r=1&p=0 Groove Discussion Space: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0003852E?open&r=1&p=0 QUOTATIONS: ALBERT EINSTEIN ON HUMAN BEINGS =========================================== Growing up as a scientist (my degree is in Physics for God's sake!) I only ever knew Albert Einstein as one of the world's greatest scientists. It is only in recent years that I have discovered the spiritual side to this great man. Here is one of my favorite quotes by him but follow the link to his page for several more quotes and resources. "A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe'; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security." On Human Beings http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00003D02?open&r=1&p=0 Albert Einstein http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X000064B2?open&r=1&p=0 KNOW YOUR VALUE? ================ Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is about taking a personal or individual perspective to Knowledge Management rather than an organizational or corporate one - I wrote a little about the concept in last month's knowledge-letter and said that as far as I knew there were no books on the subject. Well thanks to those of you (including Mick Cope himself) who came back and told me about Mick Cope's book "Know your value" - clearly a book on PKM. Mick has since sent me a copy that I have yet to fully digest but it looks extremely good. I'll review it in a future knowledge-letter. Know your value? value what you know: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0005450A?open&r=1&p=0 For more on PKM in general: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00028452?open&r=1&p=0 THE COFFEEMACHINE LECTURE, 11TH APRIL, LONDON ============================================= The Coffeemachine is a network of knowledge management practitioners, set up by current and former members of City University Business School (CUBS). Regular meetings are held, usually at the Business School, with the aim of encouraging discussion and the exchange of ideas relating to Knowledge Management. These events are free and anyone is welcome to attend. If you are interested in KM and in London on the day of an event I'd encourage you to attend - I try to get most of them and they are always well worth the effort. The next lecture will be given by Rebecca Benniston of Logica Plc. - "Implementing Knowledge Management in the IT Sector: Shifting the focus from technology to culture." The doors will open from 6.00pm to allow for an opportunity to network and there will be a post lecture drink at a local venue for those interested in continuing the discussions. Location: Gresham Lecture Room, Level 7, City University Business School, Frobisher Crescent, Barbican Centre, London,UK. *** The session is free and anyone is welcome to attend. *** *** RSVP to Angela Hector mailto:ahector@degw.co.uk *** Full information, including directions: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0005AE5A?open&r=1&p=0 QUICK CLICKS ============ Top Achievement - Personal development resources website - runs a daily e-mail quotation service. I subscribe to it - I love some of the quotations by more obscure authors. http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0001270E?open&r=1&p=0 WARIA -The Workflow And Re-engineering International Association. If you are into workflow or re-engineering - this is a good resource site. http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00006126?open&r=1&p=0 Learning Circuits - Online magazine on e-Learning. Several good articles on this site plus an e-learning newsletter. http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0001E0FE?open&r=1&p=0 The Foresight Institute - Nanotechnology - the coming ability to build materials and products with atomic precision. Take a look at the online version of Eric Drexler's book - Engine's of Creation - if you are not familiar with the potential for nanotechnology - this book will blow your mind! It did mine when I read it maybe 10 years ago now. http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0000E7F2?open&r=1&p=0 MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES "HAILSTORM" =============================== "We have already gone so far down the road of serving computers that we’ve come to accept our servitude as necessary. It isn’t. It is time for us to rise up with a profound demand: Make our computers simpler to use! Make them talk to us, do things for us, get the information we want, help us work with other people, and adapt to our individual needs. Only then will computers make us productive and truly serve us, instead of the other way around." - Michael L. Dertouzos, Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, from his book The Unfinished Revolution .NET - Microsoft's XML Web services platform has the grand aim of making this vision a reality. On March 19th, Microsoft announced a set of enabling services - code-named "HailStorm". HailStorm is a key part of .NET .NET web services are very small, reusable application components that can be shared seamlessly among websites as services. By subscribing to various "plug and play" web service functions, such as currency conversion, calendar updating, and notifications, web developers will be able to create richer user experiences more quickly and easily. Many organizations already subscribe to the Microsoft Passport Services user identity web service which is one such service. I've yet to take all this in myself but when I do - here are the links I'll follow - take a look and get feel for what .NET and Hailstorm are all about: HailStorm: http://www.microsoft.com/net/hailstorm.asp .NET website: http://www.microsoft.com/net/default.asp .NET white paper: http://www.microsoft.com/net/intro.asp Microsoft: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0001F14E/ The Unfinished Revolution: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X0005AE22/ MICHAEL PORTER ON STRATEGY ========================== "The world's most famous business-school professor is fed up with CEOs who claim that the world changes too fast for their companies to have a long-term strategy. If you want to make a difference as a leader, you've got to make time for strategy." Take a look at the article below in Fast Company Managazine to see what he has to say on the importance of strategy. http://www.fastcompany.com/online/44/porter.html Or go direct to the home page of the Fast Company website - its packed with useful ideas and tools. Fast Company Website: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X000063AE/ Michael Porter: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00008202/
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