Week 7 – Discussion and Guest Speaker Dave Simmons

Guest Speaker – Dave Simmons

I enjoyed Dave Simmons presentation. His rules of thumb segment was particularly interesting. Some of the rules I will probably use in my life are as follows:

1. write once – use many times,
2. connect knowledge management to you daily life/work
3. Rollouts are over rated.
4. Build lexicons, taxonomies, and definitions

It makes only makes since if you want to be productive that you create something that can be used again and again with time instead of having to recreate the wheel each time. As our professor states again and again every problem can be a KM problem if you want it to be. Therefore, why not connect knowledge management to your daily life and work. Finally, working quite a bit with websites and portals I have spent a considerable amount time working on taxonomies and definitions. I expect that my future will hold a lot more of that.

Last thing I did want to make not of was Dave’s last comment about the importance of knowing how to persuade others to do things that normally they don’t want to do. You can't always expect the easy sell, most of the time you will have to work for it.