In case you missed it, here is Part 1…
A key component of Janow’s Organizational Entropy is choice. Specifically, the greater the choice available for an individual member of an organization to carry out work, the higher the entropy of the organization. Entropy that is too high leads to a “stupid” organization. The [...]
Joel on Software - In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome
Just as I see analogies in almost everything, when I look at the world around me I see nothing but fractals. Not the cool geometric images that most people think of, but a nested set of self-similar structures. These structures may be physical, they may behavioral. Everything. I can’t help it. [...]
Information vs. Knowledge: The Role of Intranets in Knowledge Management: Dick Stenmark from the Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2002.
McGee’s Musings: Research on Tech impact out of HP
While reading The Addicted Brain [ BIOTECHNOLOGY ], in the March 2004 issue of Scientific American, the idea that e-mail is like an addiction for organizations came to mind. (I don’t know why, but I seem to have a tendency to analogize a lot of things into an organizational behavior context.) A couple [...]
Recently, I listed 4 high-level parts of an information and knowledge management continuum: personal / individual, group / team, organizational, and external interaction. The first three can be seen as a “path” that many (most?) organizations follow in their creation and growth. (The last - external interaction - is a key function for [...]
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