Meg from megnut.com wrote an interesting review of Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams in the latest issue of New Architect

found a link to this on ScriptingNews: “Many, if not all companies have knowledge workers. Some, are composed entirely of knowledge workers. These people are domain experts. They keep up to-date (or should) with the evolution of knowledge within their chosen domain. They have thinking skills that have been developed to process data within that domain. Everything they think about within the envelope of that domain has value. Unfortunately, most companies don’t capture, package, and distribute that insight. "

from a Business 2.0 article on KM: “Companies waste billions on knowledge management because they fail to figure out what knowledge they need, or how to manage it. In his latest book, Thomas A. Stewart explains how to answer both questions.”

interesting … there’s a fairly new mailing list called k-log that’s “dedicated to the discussion of Weblogs for Knowledge Management and collaborative groupware within corporations and non-profit organizations.”

Procter & Gamble “… recently began linking 18,000 research and development employees through a global intranet called InnovationNet.”

the project developed by AskMe allowed workers to collaborate on new product development with company experts from around the world.

good quotes:
“A recent study by …Gartner Group suggests companies that proactively manage intellectual assets stand to make more profit than those that don’t.”

“Technologies that mediate that are going to be the next generation of the information revolution. They’re the answer to our most complex set of questions.”

this article tries to breakdown and define the various portal offerings … it’s worth a read even if it’s a bit obvious is some cases.

“Almost every major software vendor offers a portal solution. It’s no wonder: With organizations striving to provide internal and external users with an intuitive way to access relevant content, browser-based portals are a strategic part of any e-business initiative. In a recent Meta Group survey, 78 percent of organizations indicated future portal efforts would include employees as targets. That figure is far greater than the 53 percent that plan to target customers and 32 percent aiming at suppliers.”

From: Interactive Week: “one area that seems to be bucking the [downward] trend is the field of business-to-employee applications. Companies servicing this sector are reporting healthy revenue and, in fact, a number of firms are making new investments in B2E ventures.”

“B2E’s favored status comes from the simple fact that companies, big and small, have reported significant gains – both in cost reductions and productivity improvements – from implementing B2E applications. They cover the gamut from self-service access to … portals aimed at improving collaboration and communications among staff. What they have in common is a relatively low cost of implementation and a high return on investment (ROI).”

this is a bit old, but i thought it to be a great quote by Stefano Mazzocchi about his decision to leave the Apache Cocoon development he created:

“…delegation scales the community and a bigger community means more value, more fun, more positive energy. But delegation happens only if you trust, if you consider your fellow community mate equal to you.

When this doesn’t happen, friction develops, bottlenecks arise, positive energy turns into negative one.

“American Express and software partners Tibco and Infosys launched a new company on Tuesday aimed at giving customers an easier way to access business-management software, services and content via the Web.”

“The new venture, dubbed Workadia, will provide companies a corporate portal where employees can log on to access certain business applications, e-mail, calendars, expense reports, corporate travel, human resources and a list of other products and services.”

From: New company targets corporate portals – Tech News – CNET.com

From: IBM Research: Knowledge Socialization: White paper