Archive for the 'Complexity' Category

Conceptmapping Thesis: Chapter 2, part 4. Natural conception of space

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

2.4 Natural conception of space
The extent of our experience thus dictates an arbitrary limit on the dimensionality that we understand. However, there is no such limit on the complexity of relationships between objects. It is these relationships that dictate the pattern of a system that we seek to comprehend, and it is these which we […]

Conceptmapping Thesis: Chapter 2, part 3. On Space

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

2.3On Space
The environment or “milieu” that we live in is partly composed of a space and as such, some of the earliest things that we need to describe during childhood exist in a spatial field. We become accustomed to understanding the spatial dimensions and become experienced at describing them. Survival, [MIM] claims, has become our […]

Software as a Service leads to Value Networks

Monday, March 5th, 2007

There was another slide in Software as a Service (SaaS) for Small to Medium sized Businesses ( PDF), one that warrants a separate posting:

The story here is about business webs, and how taking one SaaS service, such as Salesforce.com can lead to adoption of another, compatible, integrated service. Salesforce.com is leading the way in its […]

Conceptmapping Thesis: Chapter 2, part 2. Mental Models

Monday, March 5th, 2007

2.2 Mental Models

People construct internal representations, called mental models, of the situation in the world that they want to reason about and then change those models, in ways corresponding to the ways the world can change, to try to find solutions to their problems.
[Mind in Action, p 68]

The creative process is essentially the formulation […]

Conceptmapping Thesis: Chapter 2, part 1.

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

2. Background Investigations
“It is in symbolic, visual terms that the designer ultimately realises his perceptions and experiences; and it is in the world of symbols that man lives. The symbol is thus the common language between the artist and spectator”
Brian Lawson - How Designers Think
In this chapter, we survey various texts to get some […]

KM 2.0 based on Social Media fuels Complexity. Managing complexity necessitates new culture and new leadership competences

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

In Tech Boom 2.0: Boom but no bubble?, I highlighted the collaboration centricity of new investments:

A new emphasis on social networking and connecting people, rather than e-commerce, which consumers did not trust in 2000.

Given the dismal failure of so many KM implementations - which were often poorly thought-out and brittle databases - a shift to […]