As an organization converges on a set of long-range scenarios, it typically wants to validate its scenarios. Since scenarios reflect logical speculations about the future, there is no right or wrong about them, but that does not mean that they cannot be validated for their ability to serve as strategic insight and foresight tools. Rather than right or wrong, think of testing … [Read more...] about Scenario Planning: How to Test Scenarios
Review: Polk Command Bar Offers Alexa with Attitude
Polk Command Bar: It used to be when a house started talking to you, it was time for a chat with the local priest or vicar about some spiritual cleansing. But now everywhere I turn, my home speaks to me through Alexa and an Amazon Echo of some sort, sometimes when I want it to, sometimes not. My latest Alexa companion comes in the form of the Polk Command Bar. The most … [Read more...] about Review: Polk Command Bar Offers Alexa with Attitude
Box Opening: Solo New York Cameron Rolltop Backpack and Shorewood Leather Briefcase
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Knowledge and Expertise: Mental work modes and switching gears
Knowledge and Expertise: Most mental work falls into three distinct modes: synthesis, delivery, and collaboration. Knowledge synthesis Knowledge synthesis is usually a form of research characterized by reading, listening, and watching with a goal in mind, a hypothesis that needs to be tested. We characterize this as downward-looking. Down through data, through the … [Read more...] about Knowledge and Expertise: Mental work modes and switching gears
Knowledge and Innovation: 21 Critical Innovation Principles that Benefit from Knowledge Management
Knowledge and Innovation: 21 Innovation Principles That Benefit from a KM Perspective Knowledge management often sounds like a controlling function, but it can also be a liberating one. Seeking knowledge, examining problems from different points of view, and synthesizing content and context to create new, often unique possibilities requires an openness that the process view … [Read more...] about Knowledge and Innovation: 21 Critical Innovation Principles that Benefit from Knowledge Management