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Heretic's Guide Press. The management books of Paul Culmsee and Kailash Awati. Paul is a management consultant, business strategist, sensemaker and award winning author with more than 25 years of experience. Based in Perth, Western Australia, he co-founded Seven Sigma Business Solutions. Web: www.sevensigma.com.au. Blog: www.cleverworkarounds.com. Twitter: http:/ www.twitter.com/paulculmsee. LinkedIn: https:/ au.linkedin.com/in/paul-culmsee-business-strategist-sensemaker-3555853. Over the last several ye...
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On the unintended consequences of organisational change | Eight to Late
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Sensemaking and Analytics for Organizations. On the unintended consequences of organisational change. Change, as the cliché goes, is the only constant. At any given time, most organisations are either planning or implementing changes of some kind. Perhaps because of its ubiquity, the rationale and results of change are not questioned as deeply as they ought to be. In this post I describe some. Unintended effects of organisational change. Drawing on Barbara Czarniawska’s book, A Theory of Organizing.
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The paradox of the learning organisation | Eight to Late
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Sensemaking and Analytics for Organizations. The paradox of the learning organisation. The term learning organisation. Refers to an organisation that continually modifies itself in response to changes in its environment. Ever since Peter Senge. Coined the term in his book, The Fifth Discipline. I should point out that the term learning organisation. Should be distinguished from organisational learning. For more on the distinction.). Elsewhere, Senge suggests that the learning organisation is a vision.
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On the ineffable tacitness of knowledge | Eight to Late
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Sensemaking and Analytics for Organizations. On the ineffable tacitness of knowledge. Personal nature of knowledge. Explicit and tacit knowledge in KM. Most KM professionals are familiar with terms. In their influential book, The Knowledge-Creating Company. Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi proposed a model of knowledge creation. Based on their claim that:. Human knowledge is created and expanded through social interaction between tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge. From person to person). Haridim...
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The paradoxes of organisational change | Eight to Late
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Sensemaking and Analytics for Organizations. The paradoxes of organisational change. It is a truism that organisations are in a constant state of change. It seems that those who run organisations are rarely satisfied with the status quo, and their unending quest to improve products, performance, sales or whatever makes change an inescapable fact of organizational life. One of the underappreciated facets of organizational change is that it is inherently. Paradoxes are social constructs. To change their at...
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A gentle introduction to cluster analysis using R | Eight to Late
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Sensemaking and Analytics for Organizations. A gentle introduction to cluster analysis using R. Welcome to the second part of my introductory series on text analysis using R (the first article can be accessed here. My aim in the present piece is to provide a practical introduction to cluster analysis. I’ll begin with some background before moving on to the nuts and bolts of clustering. We have a fair bit to cover, so let’s get right to it. Based on their structure and content. And a bit later:. In this s...
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Catch-22 and the paradoxes of organisational life | Eight to Late
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Sensemaking and Analytics for Organizations. Catch-22 and the paradoxes of organisational life. 8220;You mean there’s a catch? 8220;Sure there’s a catch”, Doc Daneeka replied. “Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn’t really crazy.”. There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Joseph Heller, Catch-22. Two or more individuals, one of whom is a.
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Scapegoats Pty Ltd | Eight to Late
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Sensemaking and Analytics for Organizations. Tell us that a significant percentage of projects fail for one reason or another. Many of these are projects that could have been saved by timely action, but instead end in ignominy due to inaction by various stakeholders. Transfixed by impending doom, those responsible are content to let problems fester until the potential for disaster translates to reality. 8212;——————————————...8220;You mess up, we’ll fess up”. Scapegoats Pty Ltd offers consummate, pro...
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A gentle introduction to text mining using R | Eight to Late
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Sensemaking and Analytics for Organizations. A gentle introduction to text mining using R. This article is based on my exploration of the basic text mining capabilities of R, the open source statistical software. If you have no time and /or wish to cut to the chase, please go straight to the section entitled, Preliminaries installing R and RStudio. Of R and version. Text mining) package for R. A second point follows from this: as is evident from its version number, the. In which data is stored in tables.
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The façade of expertise | Eight to Late
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Sensemaking and Analytics for Organizations. The façade of expertise. Problem that I have written about at length elsewhere (see this. One, for example). Although a recent development. In knowledge management technology goes some way towards addressing the problem of context, it still looms large and is likely to for a while. An organization in which most work is. Of an intellectual nature and where well-educated, qualified employees form the major part of the work force. However, the slipperiness of...