Monthly Archives: May 2016

Knowledge management at Getronics Consulting It is the business of Getronics’ consultants is to design and implement enterprise ICT, both for large private companies and public sector organizations. In 2009, Getronics radically transformed its knowledge management. This post provides a … Continue reading →

The principles of knowledge management according to WinkWaves This post summarizes the principles of knowledge management according to WinkWaves, a consultancy founded by Dr. René M. Jansen, who is also a research fellow at the University of Amsterdam. The principles … Continue reading →

… and how they follow from wicked problem characteristics Last Sunday (May 15, 2016) Brook Melville posted an article on Leadership practices for ‘Wicked’ problem solving at Forbes.com. Melville (McKinsey’s first Director of Knowledge Management) had interviewed Dr. Kate Isaacs, … Continue reading →

How to get from a ‘problematic situation’ to a ‘systemic intervention’? While reading ‘15 praktijkverhalen over kennismanagement‘ [Dutch for ’15 practical cases of knowledge management’] I came across one story (about Kennisland, Dutch for ‘knowledgeland’) which triggered my curiosity. It … Continue reading →

A cosmic ‘short story’ Even in the best universities students arrive with misconceptions, and because many engage primarily in rote learning, these misconceptions do not get remediated. Joe Novak (in his “Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge: concept maps as facilitative tools … Continue reading →