Year: 2018
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Brain power
Critical Eye: ISE4GEMs – A new approach for the SDG era
A new evaluation document provides a timely reminder about what knowledge management is, and is not.
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Exploring the science of complexity
Exploring the science of complexity series (part 5): Aims and overview of the series
The series aims to open up and explore concepts, analogies, and relationships, and put forward working concepts, categories, and hypotheses…
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Brain power
Digesting the future of work
There is a general shift towards valuing cognitive skills around the world, with new technologies underpinning this move towards a…
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ABCs of KM
Critical Eye: Tacit knowledge paper gets lost in neuromyths, highlighting issues with evidence quality in KM
A knowledge management research paper that I recently located clearly illustrates why evidence must be critically appraised before a decision…
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Exploring the science of complexity
Exploring the science of complexity series (part 4): Introduction
The concepts of complexity science have presented a way of better describing and understanding dynamics and processes of change found…
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Brain power
How professional familiarity helps virtual teams thrive
A recent study found that having a deep professional knowledge of team members was hugely important to team success, but…
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Brain power
Why it is (almost) impossible to teach creativity
Our contemporary education systematically trashes creativity and unwittingly punishes students for exercising their imagination.
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Community
Simplistic solutions to complex problems turns behavioural science into a dangerous pseudoscience (part 2): Why it’s pseudoscience
Presenting evidence to show why advancing simplistic solutions in ignorance of complexity and compounding this ignorance through confirmation bias turns…
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Brain power
We made deceptive robots to see why fake news spreads, and found a weakness
Only a small amount of fake news is needed to disrupt any debate or discussion on an issue, but there…
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KM in international development
Demystifying systemic thinking for evaluation in post-normal times
Using systemic thinking to make sense of new-normal levels of social, political, economic, and ecological complexity.