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The Future of Work Weblog

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Research conducted by the Work Design Collaborative over the past five years suggests that there are at least seven important dimensions of work activity that have an impact on where, when, and how that work can be accomplished: Purpose - whether the task involves applying existing knowledge to a well-defined problem, or generating new knowledge.

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Turned six months old & Freed.in

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Update : Just noticed that Gurunandan Bhat has a presentation on Using Movable Type 4.0 Last Week OSS Camp was a great success and I made some new friends out there Kinshuk , Pratham Kalia , Kurund , Ravi Shankar , Vineet and more… Ann & Jeremy have written insightful posts on Twitter tips for Marketers.

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The Future of Work Weblog

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On the other hand, if both the task outcomes and the processes used to produce those outcomes are very loosely structured, it is creative work, or perhaps even research. Many activities, like copywriting, programming, graphic design, and legal research, are "heads down" individual tasks that require only periodic interaction with others.

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KM Edge: Where the best in Knowledge Management come together

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College , where he also leads the Process Management and Working Knowledge Research Centers.) APQC research. Powered by Movable Type. Last month, I linked to a post about Enterprise 2.0 from Tom Davenports Harvard Business Review blog. begins his post by discussing a May 21 interview with Wikinomics. benchmarking.

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BABSONKNOWLEDGE.ORG: 6 Common Attributes of Knowledge Work and Knowledge Workers

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This factor is behind, for example, the famous 3M approach of giving researchers 15% of their time to work on something they think is important to the company. Tom, This piece is a nice precis of a chapter in the book, and connected to research youve done on the characteristics of high-performing knowledge workers. Trackback Pings.

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Eight steps to thriving on information overload

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I have been fascinated by recent research on unconscious problem-solving, and have a thread ("Mind Power") on my blog. Powered by Movable Type Publishing Platform. Billed as "a blog that covers tips and tricks for streamlining your life with computers (and sometimes without)," Lifehacker is a constant source of great ideas.

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Dear Blog Comment Spammer: I Think Your Comment Spam Tool is Broken

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