Research News – Storylistening for Consumer Insight

A recent poll stated that women spend 52 minutes a day gossiping – and before the men start sniggering, apparently they spend an average of 76 minutes daily spinning yarns with their mates. We tell stories to each other compulsively – to make sense of our experiences, to persuade others, or even just to entertain ourselves. Despite the prevalence of stories in our lives, we often don’t know what to do with them in more formal situations.

A short article on story & narrative in the AMSRS publication Research News. Here is the link to the site or the article for download.

[N.B. I should be clear here that I am not a market researcher]

Learning + Knowledge = ?

Learning & Knowledge = ? is an article that I wrote recently for Training Magazine Australia. It explores merging your Knowledge Management and Learning & Development teams & activities.

It deliberately downplays the philosophical for the practical but let me stress that was a tactical decision for the article – I am interested in many facets of this topic. I would like to thank Cory Banks, Alison Bickford, Barbara Clay, Miguel Cornejo Castro, Mark Gould, Patrick Lambe, Neil Lynch, Kate Pugh, Liz Reuben, Greg Timbrell and Peter West for their input (if I’ve forgotten anyone then please let me know).

I’d also like to get your comments – see that comments box just below this post? Go on, I’d love to hear what you think.

Training Magazine Australia – From User-Centred to User-Generated Learning

Here is an article that I recently wrote for Training Australia Magazine. There’s actually a lot of good, solid writing in there so I have no hesitation recommending it. Meanwhile, I give you: From User-Centred to User-Generated Learning

Human Capital Magazine – Talent Management in a Down Economy

This article was written a few months ago for Human Capital Magazine but took a little while to get to publication. So here is Talent Management in a Down Economy. Unfortunately it may have increased in relevance in the interim.

Justifying Your Knowledge Management Programme

After the actKM conference session, I decided to write the presentation up as a short white paper: Justifying Your Knowledge Management Programme. Many thanks to Andrew Mitchell and Keith De La Rue for their comments and suggestions.

I’d welcome your feedback as well – which you can send as an email or write as a comment to this post. There’s even a wiki version of the paper on wikispaces – which people can do with what they like but I take no responsibility for.

[Update: As David Gurteen has requested, a creative commons license has been appended to the document]

HR Monthly – Virtually Indispensable

Download Virtually Indispensable – which the nice folks at hrmonthly have published in their latest edition. I think it may be better summed up with its original title – “Networkplace”.

First published in hrmonthly September 2008. hrmonthly is published for The Australian Human Resources Institute.

Closing The Deal (KM Review)

Closing the Deal (KM in a sales environment) was written for Melcrum’s KM Review magazine with Keith De La Rue a month or two ago. Comments welcome.