Many digital professionals like my friend Jason Velasco use Merlin Mann’s 2006 Inbox Zero approach to manage the daily 100+ emails digital professionals receive. Most ‘filer’ methods require the user to delete or folder all messages at least once a day to minimize the time lost constantly checking unread email and chat. I distinctly recall arguing ‘filer vs. finder’ approaches …
Knowledge Artisans are not suffering a shortage of information or lack of communication. With more data coming faster and faster through competing dynamic channels, their challenge is no longer a question of information management, it’s a question of focus management.
We laugh at other people’s pain. We transform our own pain through humor. According to this simple relationship, in this age of information, it’s a wonder we’re not in stitches all the time.
Out of disruption, out of uncertainty, innovation always arises. Disturbance is an essential step on the path of renewal.
Harold Jarche coined the term Knowledge Artisan as someone ‘augmented by technology using their skills and networks to solve complex problems and test new ideas’. This term fits our KnowNow customer definition, even if modern consultants, product managers and researchers might not recognize themselves as Knowledge Artisans. Instead, many may identify as Digital Samurai, tech …
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Time toilets. That is what a friend calls meetings. Given the steady increase in meetings since the pandemic, it is hardly surprising that so many people think that most meetings are a waste of our precious time. What does a well-formed meeting look like anyway?
How do researchers collaborate, reach and share complex information stores yet keep proprietary knowledge secure? Their tools don’t allow for it.
In 1997, I came across research the Doblin Group performed with Steelcase, Inc. that assessed the information styles of office workers. The research identified six different information styles: “To categorize the different styles, researchers first identified how workers garnered, stored and shared information. Using trials to document how information flowed, they were able to assign …
If you asked me to name the big-three-challenges in the world of work, without a second thought I’d rattle off this list: Information Uncertainty (questions of relevance) Information Overwhelm (too much, too fast) Instability (incessant content flowing without context) With few exceptions, most organizational systems are designed to control the movement and flow of information. …
My days start with a quick review of unread messages, outstanding tasks and upcoming meetings to alert me to priority requests or blown deadlines. I promote action items to tasks linked to active projects or tag low priority items for later recall. My perspective shifts from tactical inbox trenches to my strategic projects and goals …
