Coming Soon to an Organisation Near You

Personal Knowledge Management.

Seb Pacquet takes a look at the near future, as blogs, IM and other knowledge-assembly and knowledge-sharing tools  keep spreading into our awareness.

Surf, Think and Share … is the DNA of Thoughtshare, a KM tool which:

 –  mimicked the way the brain works, through drag and drop of content into a visual workspace

 –  allowed a user to see the relationship between the dots

 –  automatically linked the chosen pieces of content – the linkages then could be re-configured however the user wants

 –  Enabled the grouping of the connected dots of content, in whatever way makes the most sense

 –  Saved the connected, linked content as a PAK

 –  Enabled the sharing of the PAK of content with others  (today this is possible through Post-to-blog,or Post-to-email, or Post-to-website, or Post-to-integrated system)

 –  Enabled easy and fast “re-usability” …. adding to the content in a PAK, or changing the order of the links, or publishing it to somewhere else or someone else.

If what Seb says is right, then there will clearly be a market that will begin to open up for “personal productivity”, or “personal knowledge management”. 

Thoughtshare is being re-purposed into …. a tool called Qumana, which we hope will find a comfortable space interacting with portals, blogs, eLearning systems and large integrated systems like CRM and ERP.

From Seb’s article:

Lemmings no more: the rise of personal knowledge management

 A recent lunch conversation with Yan Simard – who’s been keeping an eye on trends in the management literature – and Lilia Efimova’s recent pointer to a KM Magazine feature on personal knowledge management made me realize that the individual-centered approach to knowledge management is finally breaking into the mainstream, meaning that it is about to get management buy-in in organization settings.

Obviously I think this is very good news. I don’t believe this is happening simply because the fruits are ripe but rather because people are finally getting hungry – the demand, not the supply, is the dominant factor here.

The “Mass Customization of Work” is the logical eventual outcome.
 

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