Knowledge Matters™

On the 14th of May Patrick Byrne and I will be presenting "Understanding the Complexity of Program Management " to the Canberra Chapter of the Project Management Institute. The presentation shows how HolisTech® Pty Ltd's Project Knowledge Model and Knowledge Matters™ Business Network Analysis™ (BNA™) techniques can be used as a diagnostic methodology to inform project and program managers. Using real data the presentation shows how the method can be used to understand the alignment of outcomes, achieve requirements consistency, and understand the "stakeholder weave".

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About a month ago I read “Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another” by Doctor Philip Ball , who is a physicist by education and a science writer for Nature . I read it because of my interest in networks and complexity, and this book promised some insights. It was an entertaining read, but was hard going in a lot of places. Despite this the book was well written and flowed naturally.

I did enjoy the first chapter on Thomas Hobbes "Leviathan", probably because I like philosophy! The point of the chapter was that mankind has been trying to discover universal laws of society since at least 1651, and continues to do so. In subsequent chapters at times I was disappointed and found myself saying “So what!” or “Where is the evidence?” – cause and effect where not always clear to me. ...

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Introduction

This page contains a list of links to sites that I find interesting or useful. It is arranged alphabetically and is grouped according to my interests.

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Hierarchy adapts knowledge to the organization; a network adapts the organization to the knowledge.

George Siemens

A holon is an identifiable part of a system, or a system in its own right, which has a unique identity yet is made up of subordinate parts and in turn is part of a larger whole. A holon exhibits both autonomous and cooperative behaviour, and can combine to form another holon, thus forming a hierarchy called a holarchy.

Arthur Koestler