For the commercial web’s first decade, people communicated the old fashioned way: broadcasting their messages to anyone who would listen. It was a simple, easy extension of traditional advertising, public relations, politics and academic publishing. E-mail, also cutting edge at the time, modeled the same broadcast mentality. It was yet another easy way to lob [...]
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A “Playbook” for Open Government: A Grass-roots Federal Community that’s focused on Collaboration
Posted in change, collaboration, culture, gov20 on May 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
On Wednesday, April 28, agency and industry stakeholders gathered for the 4th workshop in the “Open Government Playbook” series. The session was held at USDA facilities in Washington. With the vantage point of three consecutive Playbook Workshops (one virtually, two in person), I have become a regular. But reflecting on our last session, I’ve grown [...]
Culture Change in Government: No Small Task
Posted in change, collaboration, culture, gov20 on March 21, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Per our framing, we’ve spent the last several weeks exploring theories of culture change, ranging from Schein (dimensions) and Handy (structural forces) to Eoyang (complexity). Now let’s move to a specific scenario, to tie this all together. With focus on large organizations, the Federal Government is a good place to start. This is even more [...]
Complexity in Organizations: Finding Patterns that Work
Posted in change, collaboration, complexity, culture, innovation on March 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
As our series on org culture continues, its time to raise the bar in our thinking. Imagine an overlay of the many cultural dimensions of Edgar Schein onto the four primary cultural forces of Charles Handy. The plot thickens: these are conditions present in virtually all organizations. Large orgs have many, diverse subcultures, making cause [...]
On Semantics: When Ambiguity is the Enemy
Posted in collaboration, critical thinking, km, language, tagged communication, context, folksonomy, km, ontology, semantics, taxonomy on December 15, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Asking for directions at the Tower of Babel must have been quite an ordeal, with everyone speaking a different language. I guess they had organizational silos way back then. Fast forward a couple thousand years, and we still can’t get through a day without debating simple words and phrases. The latest roadblock: unpacking the overused [...]
ECOSYS Groundrules
Posted in collaboration, ecosystem, tagged collaboration, ecosystem on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With our collaoration process hammered out in prior posts, I say we’re ready to engage at the next level: working as a team to describe, frame and inventory the problems in our ecosystems. Besides vetting the process and our assumptions, we’ll get an important feel for the scope and scale of what lies ahead. We’ve [...]
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