Overcoming Information Overload
“If you let anyone create any information there will be so much information that there is no way we can keep track of it all.” We hear this all the time.
Answer: Intuitively it sounds right but is flawed because information overload is already a fundamental feature of nature.
Experiment: Stop what you are doing. What do you hear? What do you see? What is your body feeling? Notice what is happening around you. Is there any movement? What about extemporaneous background sounds? Did you hear and see those things only a few moments ago? Sure you did, but did you notice them? Certainly not all of them, if any of them at all.
Why? Focus and filters. When we read a book we usually focus on the book. This creates a natural filter where only the words from the pages come through. They are so alive that they give us meaning and they tie up our brains, dropping all other senses.
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Tags: information overload
Don’t Focus on What – Focus on Why & How
Oct 1, 2009 KM, Selling Social Learning, Twitter, Uncategorized, collaboration, community, why
The response from my AH-HA! moment in the last post was amazing. I hope others benefited from it.
In the comments, ‘Wilson’ had some insights:
“…I don’t think this will help convince (nor should it, IMHO) a CxO or mid-level manager to embrace a social network platform. I still see the chasm of understanding re “enterprise 2.0″ tools very much represented in managerial statements such as “Of course we value and encourage collaboration and knowledge share, but that Facebook kind of stuff isn’t the way to do it.”
I agree with you 100%. It will take much more than this. And what will convince them to embrace it? DON’T TALK ABOUT THE PLATFORM – or the tools or the shiny new toys, or compare it to Facebook or Twitter or anything else. Talk to them about the pain they are seeing now and how it can be overcome. Tell them the story. Get them to buy in emotionally and intellectually. Buying in logistically will happen naturally as an effect.
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Is KM Dead?
Aug 6, 2008 KM
Watch this video. Take the time, let it run in the background as you work. But keep your ear on it.
Is KM Dead?
This might become a semantics battle, but he points out some specific things that are dead:
- One size fits all.
- Documents and repositories = Knowledge
- Knowledge resides outside of people
- ROI of knowledge
- The central repository that is controlled by a central department is good for an organization.
Do you think he is right?
(Here are some links to more discussions on the topic.)
Tags: Dave Snowden, KM
