Knowledge Leadership Associates » knowledge collaboration http://www.knowlead.co.za Creating the knowledge advantage Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:36:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Are you working too hard? http://www.knowlead.co.za/are-you-working-too-hard/ http://www.knowlead.co.za/are-you-working-too-hard/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:09:49 +0000 Peter G. Underwood http://knowlead.co.za/?p=1794 Are you working too hard? is a post from: Knowledge Leadership Associates

]]> Independent Online’s Business Report for 20 October 2010 reports the results of the 2010 LexisNexis International Workplace Productivity Survey conducted in the United States, United Kingdom, China, Australia and South Africa.  It has important implications for Knowledge Management.  According to the results of the survey, South African professional workers spent, on average, 9.5 hours a day of the working week at their workplace, longer than any other country group included in the study.  In addition, “the survey found that the amount of information workers have to manage for their jobs continues to increase at an alarming rate, with much of it irrelevant to employees getting their jobs done”.  Not surprisingly, 82% of the South African respondents wished to be able to spend more time in using the information rather than organizing it; 88% indicated that the inability to find relevant information was a major time-waster and that this was having a deleterious effect on their productivity. The survey concluded that “Workers believe they could be more productive at work if the tools they had access to were designed to work the way that they worked.”

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]]> http://www.knowlead.co.za/are-you-working-too-hard/feed/ 0 The collaborative inter-prise is coming to fruition http://www.knowlead.co.za/the-collaborative-inter-prise-is-coming-to-fruition-%e2%80%93-ben-fouche/ http://www.knowlead.co.za/the-collaborative-inter-prise-is-coming-to-fruition-%e2%80%93-ben-fouche/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:14:29 +0000 benfouche http://knowlead.co.za/?p=1591 The collaborative inter-prise is coming to fruition is a post from: Knowledge Leadership Associates

]]> While reviewing some the excellent recent contributions to the literature of knowledge management, it struck me again how prescient some of the older generation KM gurus were (still are?) in reading the emerging trends – even before or at the time of the dot.com crash. While the influential contributions of Peter Drucker stand out, I would like to remind knowledge managers of the excellent and very readable book of David Skyrme, Knowledge networking (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999). A decade after its publication it is still one of my favourites and a resource that I turn to from time to time. In the book he describes the advent of the collaborative “inter-prise” characterised by network relationships and linkages between an organisation and other players in its value chain to the extent that the boundaries of individual organisations tend to blend into networks. This is what we are seeing in practice today, enabled by Web 2.0 technologies. The book offers a wealth of insights and frameworks that are as valid today as at the time of publication. His website www.skyrme.com is worth a visit.

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