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A great piece of investigative reporting from Bob Lewis. He discovered the Loch Ness Monster a SAP implementation project that finished ahead of schedule by the Japanese company Daiwa House Industry.

The lessons are entirely relevant to any complex project implementation.

On actKM, Richard Vines recently posed a question on how we can maximise the value of ICT investments in content/metadata management systems. All too often systems are implemented without a view to their eventual decommissioning or integration with other systems. This inevitably leads to expensive, error-prone and disruptive data synchronisation and/or migration projects down the track (and often not as far away as people imagine).

Also known as: the debate that just won't die. Nick Milton writes:

If, as many people claim, Knowledge Management is "getting the right information to the right people at the right time" then what on earth do they think Information Management is?

Management of X is not concerned with delivery of Y ...

Unless you think that Knowledge and Information are the same, of course, but even then, why not call it Information Management?

Bob Lewis has written an excellent column on the benefits of generalists (as opposed to specialists) for work that involves practices rather than processes. Bob's talking about software development, but the principles he espouses are broadly applicable to the modern enterprise:

Patrick Lambe, responding to a great post by Jed Cawthorne, makes the point that:

This is a presentation that I did for the Ark Group seminar "Strategic Email Management" back in March 2007. The presentation deliberately steers away from any mention of specific Web 2.0 applications (eg no Facebook or Twitter). However, I think it's still pretty relevant today as a useful intro on how an organisation can change its mindset around email.