Archive for October, 2006

The Storytelling and Complexity Conference in New Mexico

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —October 31, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

What is the link between storytelling and complexity? This was the theme that found me travelling over 28 hours from Melbourne, Australia to Las Cruces, New …

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Social network perspective of knowledge-retention strategies

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 30, 2006
Filed in Strategy

Salvatore Parise, Rob Cross and Tom Davenport have teamed up to write an article for Sloan Management Review titled: Strategies for Preventing a Knowledge-Loss Crisis. …

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Facilitating a workshop of 90 futurists

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 29, 2006
Filed in Events

Last week I faciliated a workshop of 90 futurist gathered together for The Australian Foresight Conference. The organisers were keen to harness the energy created …

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Celerity IT is looking for a Senior Business Analyst with Business Narrative skills

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 27, 2006
Filed in News

This job for a senior business analyst in Dallas was advertised on Monster today. Analyze business functions and document high quality functional requirements. The documentation …

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The new science of change

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 26, 2006
Filed in Culture

I enjoyed reading this article this morning on some of the neuroscience behind change and some of the practical approaches you might adopt armed with …

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What I believe about learning

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 24, 2006
Filed in Communication

I was thinking this morning about what I believe about learning. Some of the things that sprang to mind include: people don’t think they’ve learned …

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Wikipedia raids are great activities for communities of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 23, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

For some time now I’ve been advocating what I call ‘action-oriented communities of practice.’ The model is described here and it’s in use by a …

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Some free eBook resources

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —October 22, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

Like they say, life is about timing. Coinciding with the launch of our recent ebook The ultimate guide to Anecdote Circles, Chris Corrigan has released an …

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The role of social networks in IT systems implementations

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 21, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes, Communication

I had coffee with my friend Trevor Moore yesterday and we got talking about a system implementation he’s involved in. It’s a large project affecting …

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The Ultimate Guide to Anecdote Circles

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 19, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes

We are very pleased to announce the release of a little eBook we have been working on called The Ultimate Guide to Anecdote Circles. Our …

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