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1) Limit your work-in-progress; 2) Visualize your work. These are the two simple rules that are suggested in a very enjoyable book I read by Jim Benson and Tonianne De Maria Barry titled Personal Kanban. Mapping Work, Navigating Life. When I first came across the book, I found the second part of the title a […]

Knowledge taxonomies: a literature review Arnaldo Pellini and Harry Jones Taxonomies are part of our daily life and this is particularly apparent today. The explosion in the volume of information and knowledge available though information technology and especially through the internet today has made it more urgent than ever to adopt systems, processes, and technology

A Study of the Asian Development Bank\’s Knowledge Taxonomy Arnaldo Pellini and Harry Jones In September 2010, the Overseas Development Institute was tasked by the Knowledge Management Center in the Regional and Sustainable Development Department  in the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to conduct a study of ADB\’s knowledge taxonomy. The study aimed to explore, recommend,

  I read and interesting interview in the International herald Tribune during dinner. An American executive working in the TV sector was asked about the balance between management and creativity. ‘Creativity is scary and messy’, she argues in the interview, but you cannot do without it. The point is to allow for the right amount

While entering the Cathay Pacific flight from Manila to Hong Kong, as usual I picked up the Herald Tribune. It is one of those action that have turned into habits and make travelling nice. One sentence by star economist Dambisa Moyo in her article How to get America Back on Track,  caught my attention as