In this month’s issue of the Montague Institute Review, I wrote about Mendeley, a collaboration and personal knowledge management service popular with academics (see A new knowledge platform: SharePoint vs. Mendeley). As someone who thinks for a living, I read with interest the most popular reference in the huge Mendeley archive — an article by … Continue reading
I’m struck by the contrast between two recent announcements by Amazon and YouTube (a Google company) and the publication of a sample SharePoint governance document by Microsoft. On the one hand, Amazon and YouTube are offering attractive new services to authors, further disrupting the traditional publishing business model. On the other, it’s not at all … Continue reading
The IT world borrowed the taxonomy concept from biology to compensate for the fact that users didn’t know what to type in the search box. It was hard for them to figure out what a Web site was about and zero in on their area of interest. The taxonomy (a hierarchical list of topics) served … Continue reading
Originally published March 2006 McKinsey director Lowell Bryan argues that organizations would get a lot more value from their proprietary knowledge if they applied market principles to it. By this he means high value products, standards, incentives, facilitators, and the notion of independent buyers and sellers. Montague Institute founder Jean Graef thinks the market metaphor … Continue reading
