Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

Euan Semple on his blog has a mini round up on the current state the Knowledge Management movement. Naturally, he’s opinionated on the subject:

“Compare Dave Snowden’s eminently sensible and insightful analysis of the current state of KM with this load of complete bollocks.”

From the first link,

Now don’t get me wrong, the objectives of KM theory and practice persist and will continue to be of great importance. They are clear, simple and important and can be summarised as follows:

1. To support effective decision making
2. To create the conditions for innovation

All the methods and tools of KM from communities of practice to corporate taxonomies are subordinate to those two primary goals. In so far as the IT function supports those goals and continues to use the term KM then it will persist.

A lot of what is happening in the Enterprise 2.0 builds on these exact same objectives as Knowledge Management (Wikepedia link). The twist being that Enterprise2.0 takes the “social”-ish or emergent path rather than the more traditional top-down (as I understand them) methodologies of classic KM.

Euan’s early successes and experiments with introducing some very basic “social media” tools to the sprawling organization that is the BBC was one my own primary inspirations for embarking on the Firestoker project.

If you wan’t to know why… Here is Euan Semple at Lift06 – essential watching, for anyone interested in Enterprise20 or … how to 2.0-the-hell-out of KM

(from the opening line “knowledge management, does anyone even talk like that anymore?…”)

The poor old Sony cybershot has been through the wars with me and is starting to come unraveled. I’m starting to look for a new camera, but researching past and present camera models is such a pain. Can anyone offer suggestions?

I’m looking for something cheap-and-cheerful, with good lowlight sensitivity that also fits easily in a pocket (no hulking DSLRs for now thanks), bonus points if it takes good pictures. Megapixels rating (I have learned) being also almost completely irrelevant.

whether it’s a new model or suggestions for any oldish-school relatively high-end classic that might be findable/heavily-discounted on ebay is a fine idea too. (I’ve had some excellent luck with the latter strategy recently)

help! thanks!

UPDATE – Thanks for the great tips so far, keep em’ coming this post could turn in to a good resource. AND as reward…
your song of the day: who else? The Hidden Cameras!
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Whoo I’m up for nomination in the obviously very important Canadian Blog Awards in the category of Best Business Blog. I’m a little slow off the mark and should have realized this earlier, but today is the last day to vote in round one.

The details are secret but as of this day, the site reports that some far-and-away leading blog in this category has 500ish votes and meanwhile the most trailing blog has a current total of 4 votes. From this I inescapably conclude that at least 3 of you have voted for me already! I beam with pride.

now go vote for me some more