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Entries in Knowledge Transfer (8)
How Much do People Need to Understand Technology to Manage It?
Jeremiah Owyang’s post Gen Y Enter Stage Left, Baby Boomers Exit Stage Right got me to wondering how much people should understand about technology in order to manage it in an organization.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Social Networking, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Retirement, Demographics, Social Media, Outsourcing, Software, Knowledge Transfer, Technological Literacy
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Social Networking and Elsevier's "Grand Challenge" for Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences
Netherlands-based mega-publisher (and former employer) Elsevier BV has issued a grand challenge:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Social Networking, Publishing, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Peer Review, Journals, Social Media, Content Management, Homeland Security, Emergency, Libraries, MySpace, DataPortability, R&D Management, Knowledge Transfer, Internet
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How Corporate RSS Supports Collaboration and Innovation
If you haven’t seen it yet, check out corporate IT manager Jim MacLennan’s RSS: Underappreciated Web 2.0 in the Enterprise blog post.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Collaboration, Project Management, Innovation, RSS, Cost Analysis, Tagging, Metrics, Email, Adoption, PowerPoint, Knowledge Transfer
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Is "My Dow Network" a "Social Network"?
I recently spoke with Trish Bharwada of The Dow Chemical Company. Trish manages My Dow Network, a web-based online membership service launched in 2007 that targets retirees and former employees of Dow.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Industry Analysis, Social Networking, Knowledge Management, Retirement, Demographics, Knowledge Transfer
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The CIO in a Large Financial Services Firm Discusses "Baby Boomer Brain Drain" and His Real Staffing Concerns
Updated on Friday, September 1, 2006 at 12:41PM by
Dennis D. McDonald
Several things stand out based on this interview with Oscar in combination with information gleaned from my previous interviews and research:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Social Networking, Knowledge Management, Retirement, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Knowledge Transfer
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The IT Director in a Large Manufacturing Company Discusses "Baby Boomer Brain Drain"
Last week I interviewed “Ferris” (not his real name) about how his company is handling the pending retirement of senior IT staff. Ferris is the IT Director in a large manufacturing company. Ferris’ company doesn’t have the mix of custom legacy Cobol and Assembler based mainframe systems that Boris the Insurance Company CIO has.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Governance, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Project Management, Social Networking, Knowledge Management, Retirement, Network Effects, Knowledge Transfer
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An Insurance Company CIO Talks About the "Baby Boomer IT Brain Drain"
Updated on Saturday, August 5, 2006 at 09:30AM by
Dennis D. McDonald
Last week I interviewed “Boris” (not his real name) about his and his company’s handling of the pending retirement of senior IT staff who are critical to the maintenance and operation of a number of his company’s business-critical mainframe legacy systems. I was initially interested in learning whether Boris thought that modern social networking and collaboration tools might be useful in documenting and transferring the specialised expertise staff needed for maintaining critical systems. Instead, the discussion took a different direction and revealed some underlying issues that go beyond technology enabled knowledge sharing.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Collaboration, Social Networking, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Retirement, Knowledge Transfer
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Age Discrimination Considerations in IT Staff Knowledge Transfer
Back on July 17 I wrote about the potential impact of pending retirement related “baby boomer brain drain” on IT departments, especially those heavily invested in supporting legacy mainframe systems. As a followup I asked for research interviews with several CIO’s I know in order to get a better handle on the issue and to find out whether emerging Web 2.0 and social networking and collaboration technologies might be supportive of knowledge transfer to younger staff.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, iTunes, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Retirement, Knowledge Transfer
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