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Critical Thinking: Essential for Success

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Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for fc.JimLee.pngOne of the most satisfying aspects of this thing we call "knowledge management" is building something of value for our clients and colleagues. This was the case as we recently completed our second Advanced Working Group (or AWG, as we like to refer to it) on the subject of the future of knowledge. A group of enthusiastic and experienced knowledge management professionals from a variety of industries, functions, and countries started with a "blank sheet" and derived several ideal future results, or IFRs. Through a combination of innovative methodology and skilled facilitation, this hardy band of cohorts identified five essential needs for the successful organization of the future: a digital hub, learning from lessons, a collaborative culture, exploiting the teachable moment, and heuristics and critical thinking.

Last month, I linked to a post about Enterprise 2.0 from Tom Davenport's Harvard Business Review blog. (Davenport is one of today's leading voices in KM--he holds the President's Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College, where he also leads the Process Management and Working Knowledge Research Centers.) Today I'm posting an excerpt and link to Davenport's thoughts on "Government 2.0," or the use of social computing inside government organizations. Davenport begins his post by discussing a May 21 interview with Wikinomics author Don Tapscott on NPR's "Talk of the Nation."


He [Don Tapscott] was talking ... about the transformation of government by Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0. I don't doubt that these tools will have some impact on how governmental information and services are delivered. I also don't have any doubt that they will not drive as much change as Don (and his co-author Anthony Williamson as quoted in a CIO Insight article) apparently believe they will.

Although Davenport's post does touch on the future of Enterprise 2.o in government, his main focus is whether the overly optimistic or emphatic statements of "gurus" like Tapscott are helpful--or not. He ends his post with a question: "What do you think--should management and technology gurus moderate their expressed views, or is it the more utopian and visionary the better?"

 

Go to Tom's blog to read more, including comments.

Click here to listen to the "Talk of the Nation" interview with Don Tapscott.

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