Ideas

Engagement and Authority

Three decades ago many of us thought the strong emergence of teams, especially self-regulating teams, was a shift away from authority based organizations to more engaged organizations.

From Knowledge Management to Knowledge Impact

What if our approach to Knowledge Management needs to change focus to move forward? Knowledge Management has put much attention and energy on organizing information and making it easily accessible to staff across the globe.

Welcome to Richard McDermott's blog

The intent of this blog is to offer what I hope to be thought provoking questions and fragments of ideas. I plan to avoid ideological rants, article-length tomes, or reports on my daily life, favorite things or activities. I hope you find it interesting and useful.

I plan to post occasionally, not regularly. So please don’t be disappointed if there are not daily updates.

Since I am just getting this site up now, it may take a few days for me to populate this idea space with ideas worth thinking about.

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Integrate with networks, communities & crowds

Most organizations need to balance operations, customer focus and practice development. For highly interdependent & highly distributed organizations finding the right balance can be difficult. We help you understand when to use collaborative networks, communities of practice, customer communities (communities 2.0) and self-organizing crowds to get the best return on your effort.

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Improve decision-making

Right and timely knowledge improves decision-making.  Rather than build self-service libraries and taxonomies, we help you design frameworks and tools that make knowledge genuinely useful to decision-makers.

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management to knowledge impact,
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Richard McDermott
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Develop greater expertise

Knowledge retention programs often fail because expertise is more than knowledge. It is the ability to make good judgment calls. Expertise can only be learned through experience and mindful practice. We help your experts learn how to share their thinking and teach their true expertise.

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Enhance creativity & innovation

Innovation stems from deep knowledge and expertise not wild and crazy ideas.  Cognitive science research and our research on creative experts demonstrate that individual creativity and organizational innovation involve similar mental processes. We help both individuals and organizations increase their capacity to innovate by teaching them how to recombine knowledge, points of view, and ways of thinking to generate innovation.

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McDermott Consulting

McDermott Consulting helps public and private sector organizations operate in the current highly interdependent, highly distributed organizations.

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