Information overload vs. filter failure « TimeBack Management

Nice post tying lean thinking and doing root cause analysis on information overload. Agree that's it's not that there's too much information - there always has been, since well before anyone currently living. It's the amount of information that you're actually expected to consume, understand and react to that's gotten out of control. Nice quote re: Peter Drucker: "In an earlier post, I talked about how Peter Drucker viewed an excess of meetings as a sign of a dysfunctional organization. He wrote that: 'Too many meetings always bespeak poor structure of jobs and the wrong organizational components. . . if people in an organization find themselves in meetings a quarter of their time or more — there is time-wasting malorganization. Too many meetings signify that work that should be in one job or in one component is spread over several jobs or several components. They signify that responsibility is diffused and information is not addressed to the people that need it.' I wonder if you could say the same thing about too much email. Yes, when you’re collaborating with teams located in different offices around the world email is a incredibly useful communication tool. But lord knows that there are plenty of people, teams, and companies that don’t have that convenient excuse. The root causes behind our biblical email plague are myriad — and almost certainly don’t involve something we can’t fix, like a vengeful god. Asking questions that reveal the root causes can help you take appropriate countermeasures. It’s a better approach than blaming email on “filter failure,” or meekly accepting the worsening status quo."

tags: lean_thinking information_overload lean_management A3s filter_failure clay_shirky nathan_zeldes dan_markovitz silo disintegration fragmentation peter_drucker

Download details: SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v1.0

"Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) connector for SharePoint Server 2010

The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) connector for SharePoint Server 2010 enables SharePoint users to interact with content stored in any repository that has implemented the CMIS standard, as well as making SharePoint 2010 content available to any application that has implemented the CMIS standard.

The CMIS connector for SharePoint Server 2010 includes two features:

* The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Consumer Web Part, which can be added to any SharePoint page. This Web Part displays and lets users interact with the contents of any CMIS repository.
* The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Producer, which allows applications to interact with SharePoint lists and document libraries programmatically by means of the interfaces defined in the CMIS standard.

For more information about the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard, see OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) TC (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=196694).

This tool is not supported for SharePoint Foundation 2010."

tags: sharepoint CMIS standards MOSS2010

A Pattern Language: Gradual Stiffening

Every time I look at Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language" - I'm struck by how much you can apply these patterns to just about anything.

This in particular sounds eerily TRIZ-like, and very much like modern Agile Software Development. Don't "freeze/stiffen" the development too soon, or make it too rigid, or you end up with inappropriate solutions for usage that you can't anticipate up front.

tags: patterns pattern_library pattern_language agile_development TRIZ

.:Sixorg: Federated Search is dead, dead, dead...

Dated article - and makes lots of assumptions about certain implementation models of federated search.

tags: federated_search metalayer

Content Strategy - a knol by Jeffrey MacIntyre

Sadly content strategy is practiced by few, and almost exclusively only in consumer-facing situations, in my experience. That said, worth looking through this knol.

tags: content_strategy information_architecture knol

Role Based Provisioning and Access Control | RBAC

Meet another of the core meta-layers needed to unify silo/app sprawl.

tags: provisioning role_based_access identity_management access_management metalayer

The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek

And now for something completely different - fascinating article on the serious decline of American creativity/innovation. Extending from childhood through to adults.

Absolutely agree with this article - see the same problems and opportunities every time we run an Innovation Workshop. Most adults have been taught specifically to give up on innovation - unless they are "designers" of some sort. That cedes far too much innovation energy to an incredibly small area of any given organization.

"Overwhelmed by curriculum standards, American teachers warn there’s no room in the day for a creativity class. Kids are fortunate if they get an art class once or twice a week. But to scientists, this is a non sequitur, borne out of what University of Georgia’s Mark Runco calls “art bias.” The age-old belief that the arts have a special claim to creativity is unfounded. When scholars gave creativity tasks to both engineering majors and music majors, their scores laid down on an identical spectrum, with the same high averages and standard deviations. Inside their brains, the same thing was happening—ideas were being generated and evaluated on the fly.

Researchers say creativity should be taken out of the art room and put into homeroom. The argument that we can’t teach creativity because kids already have too much to learn is a false trade-off. Creativity isn’t about freedom from concrete facts. Rather, fact-finding and deep research are vital stages in the creative process. Scholars argue that current curriculum standards can still be met, if taught in a different way."

tags: creativity education psychology Newsweek innovation crisis learning creative_problem_solving

• 1990 is when the overzealous drive for standardized testing and curriculum began. Go figure. - post by Jeffrey Fuller
• We say that we do the same as far as problem based learning, but our problem is how to get kids to pass a standardized test. In truth, other countries are taking on learning methods that we discarded in the late 1980s, we are taking on a learning approach that they have abandoned after 1000 years of practice. Our own educational leaders are all in denial about this. - post by Jeffrey Fuller
• Edutainers, don't get your hopes up for synchronized dance interpretation of math problems. Using creativity is great, but it must also be relevant. - post by Jeffrey Fuller

Federated Search

Blog on Federated Search sponsored by Deep Web Technologies - interesting coverage.

tags: findability federated_search

Parsing Findability Problems, Part Two

Just finding an old post from Sid at Attivio regarding our research on Findability from 2 years ago. Great troubleshooting advice on findability - part 2 of 2 articles.

tags: findability dan_keldsen attivio sid_probstein carl_frappaolo

Parsing Findability Problems

Just finding an old post from Sid at Attivio regarding our research on Findability from 2 years ago. Great troubleshooting advice on findability - part 1 of 2 articles.

tags: findability attivio dan_keldsen carl_frappaolo sid_probstein

Overview of CMIS in June 2010

Even more on CMIS - an overview. Virtualizing CMIS for content management, records management, search, etc..

tags: laurence_hart CMIS

Federated ECM Search with CMIS

>1 year old presentation on proof of concept demonstrating federated search powered via CMIS as connection point.

tags: federated_search CMIS alfresco documentum nuxeo laurence_hart paul_hampton

An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Influence & Persuasion | Online Marketing News

This post is about marketing and conversion optimization, in theory, but really, it's about persuasion and influence, and can be rolled up and out to a huge variety of scenarios. If you haven't read any of Cialdini's books - run Forrest run! Read and re-read and apply...

tags: influence persuasion robert_cialdini

Is Papyrus ECM, BPM, CRM, EAI or a Mashup? « Papyrus Platform Architecture

Max is always good to refer to - and I agree - most customers (ok, the end business users and/or consumers of that business) could care less about the sub-systems and acronyms - they want SOLUTIONS that roll it all up into a working system.

tags: ecm bpm papyrus ISIS max_fulcher mashup eai

Enterprise search made easy - CMIS gadget case studies | Generis Blog

Light-weight integration/federation, across Alfresco, Nuxeo, Documentum (in beta), IBM, ISIS Papyrus, OpenText, Day, GateIn / eXo Platform

tags: enterprise_search gadget widget generis CMIS integration

CARA for Documentum, SharePoint and Alfresco using CMIS

An integration platform with CMIS as the backplane across Documentum, SharePoint and Alfresco

tags: cara sharepoint documentum alfresco CMIS integration standards

Vamosa Repackages Content Migrator, Offers Web And Document Suites

Wholesale content migration or ongoing governance - two sides of the same coin? (Yes)

tags: vamosa content_governance information_governance governance

The Rise of Composite Content Platforms - Contentation Re-considered

Interesting piece on the war between Portals and WCM/CMS... who owns content and at what stage in it's life? Presentation? Authoring? Review? Search?

tags: composite_content content_virtualization CMIS user_experience_platforms enterprise_portals