Spiky Earth

David Gurteen and I have known each other since the birth of knowledge management and while most of our conversations are virtual nowadays it was terrific to catch up with David again during the Intellectual Assets Centre conference in Edinburgh this week. The downside was that the organisers had David running his excellence Knowledge Café at the same time that I was chairing sessions reviewing and contrasting the challenges facing a small organisation and a multinational when it comes to knowledge management. The dialogue we had during the sessions was superb and it was interesting how the perception that there would be nothing in common between the two organisations changed as the dialogue progressed.

Two of the presentations in the morning session were given by economists, one of whom spoke about ‘spiky earth’ and how organisations gather in clusters. I need to do some more research into this because it struck me that there were interesting parallel with communities of interest and these ‘spikes’.



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