In the late 90s, the joke in KM circles was that KM in business was like teenage sex - lots of people talking about doing it, far fewer people actually doing it. The use of social software inside the firewall (or Enterprise 2.0) is probably the reverse - lots of it going on but very few people willing to talk about it in public - like sex among the elderly in fact.
Which brings me to the topic of innovation. I rocked up to the Innofuture Sydney gig on Thursday. There was a panel featuring people from here, here, here and here. There were some interesting comments from the panel and people on the floor but it felt like a bit of a talkfest (I contributed to this talkfest by getting in a few rants from the floor where I could). There was some debate over "what is innovation?" which I find tediously like the question "what is knowledge?"
On the one hand, they are both very, very important questions. On the other, the answers that are provided are often trite at best or opaque at worst*. Where and when they are asked is of critical importance. Knowledge and innovation are such diverse entities the local context of discussion really defines the answer that will help you. Hence the discussion needs the be anchored in the concrete and those participating in the conversation need a sufficient common context for the discussion to be meaningful.
*Please do not mention Popper's 3 worlds. They do not help. Really. They don't.
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