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Personal Knowledge Management Note: If you are looking for the summary page on personal knowledge management/mastery (PKM) it is now here: jarche.com/pkm/ Jay has recently posted on Learning Circuits that blogs can be used as knowledge management (KM) tools. Using these tools brings some new challenges, as Lilia has noted “In a sense personal KM is very entrepreneurial, there are more rewards and more risks in taking responsibility for developing own expertise.” I won’t deny the cultural change issues in using blogs for knowledge management but I will show how I, as an independent worker outside an organisational hierarchy, use blogs and other tools for personal knowledge management. [This is an update & re-write of a previous post from last year.] I write on my blog for several reasons. But how do I get from “Gee isn’t that interesting?” Many of my observations come from the blogs that I visit regularly. But what use is my blog?

Inside Mortgage Finance - What the Mortgage Market Reads | Indus Where Only the Agile Survive In the volatile world of telecom, traditional planning techniques and a set-in-stone budget just don't cut it. Mark Peters, executive vice president and CFO of tw telecom, tells how a rolling forecast and a robust communication strategy help his company to thrive in a landscape littered with casualties. Steve Player: Mark, will you please give us a little background about tw telecom? SP: So as businesses move more to software-as-a-service and creating cloud computing through the Internet, you are running the information highways that people are starting to drive more frequently? SP: What have been the challenges for your finance staff in executing this business model? That's a big component of why we've been successful. We frequently connect fiber-optic networks to our customers' locations with a variety of services. SP: Your installations require cutting up streets, which can be costly ... SP: How did this company get started? We then started moving more into the enterprise space.

The Change Model Now that this year's Beyond Budgeting Round Table Conference has concluded, I'm looking forward to next year's event. Yet, I also find myself looking back to discussions, insights, and (yes) equations that came out of our previous annual conferences. Back in 2006 in Las Vegas, we discussed the Change Model (also known as the “Change Formula,” “Change Equation,” and “Gleicher's Formula”), which was developed by organizational development specialists and an economist. At our event, though, we talked about how my coauthor Steve Morlidge had recently introduced the concept to the Beyond Budgeting discussion. Here's the equation: D x V x F > R. Four years ago, nearly every single insight generated at the conference dealt with dissatisfaction, the Beyond Budgeting vision, resistance, and first steps. One clear benefit of the recession of 2009 has been a dramatic acceleration in organizations moving Beyond Budgeting.

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