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- Yesterday I downloaded and read Dave Snowden and Mary Boone’s A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making — the November Harvard Business Review cover article. This helped me move further along on my journey to understand what David has been talking about. I highly recommend the article as a basic introduction for applying the Cynefin Framework to leadership. One of the specific benefits for me was allowing me to again feel comfortable regarding where ‘best practice’ or ‘good practice’ can be used beneficially (for ‘simple’ and ‘complicated’ ordered contexts respectively) — whereas I had left the Boston KM Forum event at the beginning of the month feeling like I might have completely missed the point in all my prior work with documenting ‘practice.’ My misunderstanding from the event, now I see I have only partially (smile) been missing the point.
- From athenahealth co-founder Todd Park’s Health Care Mega Trends webcast last week I was exposed to another framework; a five-stage innovation diffusion model, where the stages are: Ignore – Resist – Substitute – Innovate – Transform. Via internet search, I have yet to find the original citation; so if you know the source, please reply via Comments. I thought it would be interesting to apply this to enterprise 2.0. Pretty clearly many companies are still in the ‘ignore’ stage, and more than a few are currently in ‘resist’; with relatively few having moved to ‘substitute’ or all the way to ‘innovating’ with the new technologies. The enterprise is yet to be ‘transformed’ as a result. Again, a pointer to the original citation for some more guidance on appropriate application would be appreciated.
- I’m slowly beginning a new push to upgrade my blog infrastructure:
- If you are viewing this at the site (versus via a feed reader), you may have already noticed that I’ve started to prune and consolidate my categories. With WordPress’s recent Tag introduction, going forward I plan to use Tags for detailed (low-level) classification and use Categories for higher-level classification. Alas, for those who do consume via a feed reader, depending on the particular reader, I may have created the appearance of edits to some older posts when I changed categories. Sorry.
- I split my ‘Blogroll’ into a couple of major categories and added several new blogs that I’m now especially trying to follow, among the 380 now in my feed reader.
- Next, on to some widget experimentation.
- By the way, I find I’m depending on search alerts more and my feed reader less, as crammed full as it is. There are too many different things I am trying to follow at the moment and I’m finding that alerts are doing the more efficient good job at catching the high-points of what is (also) in my reader while still having the intended benefit of finding many new authors worth following in what are some relatively new subject areas for me.
- Congratulations to the RED SOX! And thanks for sweeping the World Series so I am able to get back to more normal sleep and evening writing that much sooner. I’m not that big of a sports fan; however, I have watched much or all of each post-season Red Sox game — just can’t be helped when the hometown team is doing this well.