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From information architecture to evidence-based practice

@bengoldacre has produced a report for the UK Department for Education, suggesting some lessons that education can learn from medicine, and calling for a coherent “information architecture” that supports evidence based practice. Dr Goldacre notes that in the highest performing education systems,…

Intelligence and Governance

Katy Steward of @TheKingsFund asks What Makes a Board Effective? (Feb 2013). She's looking specifically at the role of the Board in the National Health Service, but there is much that can be generalized to other contexts. She asks some key questions for…

Complexity is not a problem

There is a common view in the enterprise architecture world that complexity is a big problem, perhaps the biggest problem, and that the primary task of enterprise architecture is to deal with this complexity. "The most pressing problem of the organization is…

How Offices Make People Stupid

@benhammersley at #RSAwork talks about the future of office work, and identifies some of the ways that organizations make themselves stupid. The irony is that a lot of these mechanisms were supposed to make offices more productive and efficient, and to promote collaboration and creativity.…

Are we making progress?

In a great post, @JohnQShift explains how to build a culture of learning in your business. He calls this A Matter of Life or Death (Feb 2013) In the post, John reports one of his clients observing that they had made some…

Expert Generalists and Innovative Organizations

What do the great innovators have in common? Looking at examples from Picasso to Kepler, Art Markman calls these men expert generalists. They seem to know a lot about a wide variety of topics, and their wide knowledge base supports their creativity.…

Beyond Personal Knowledge Management

@hjarche via @Cybersal says "I'll show the same thing many times and people have various interpretations of it. Sharing knowledge artifacts is not transferring knowledge." In other words, we don't actually share knowledge, what we share are documents and other artifacts that…

On Readiness

In his presentation on Enterprise Agility at the SCiO meeting yesterday, Patrick Hoverstadt introduced the concept of Yarak. In falconry, the word Yarak describes a trained hawk that is fit and in a proper condition for hunting. According to the Oxford Dictionary,…

How to make change happen in government

Steve Hilton, David Cameron's one-time policy adviser currently on mid-term sabbatical in California, has given Stanford students some frank insights into the workings of Government. The Prime Minister sometimes opposes the measures his own ministers put forward. He often finds out about…

Organizational Intelligence Forum – Spring 2013

In association with Unicom, I am trying to put together an Organizational Intelligence Forum, possibly on April 25th to coincide with the Performance Management Forum. Unicom is also planning another Enterprise Architecture Forum in London on March 21st. These generally attract a…

Challenge-Led Innovation

#oipsrv One view of innovation is that it is motivated by a series of challenges. Once upon a time, we would have used the word "problems", and called this the "problem-solving" approach to innovation. But the word "problem" is now taboo in…

On Agility, Culture and Intelligence

Deal and Kennedy (1982) proposed a model of organizational culture, which depended on two factors, risk and the speed of feedback. Source: Deal and Kennedy Meanwhile, speed of feedback also affects organizational intelligence. Shorter feedback loops are associated with greater agility and…
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