Knowing Together: The Attensa Blog
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T.S. Eliot, Choruses from “The Rock”. 1934. This line from T.S. Eliot’s The Rock, seems to perfectly frame the question facing many organizations. We live in an era of unprecedented information access (quantity and...
Relevancy – the killer app
In his book The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics, Thornton May explores the consequences of living and and business in the era of information abundance. His perspective is summarized in pdf of of the first chapter. I have written and spoken about the impact...
It’s budget time – do you know what your content has been doing?
Despite large annual expenditures for content few organizations have a way to measure how people engage and use information from paid or free sources. This turns budgeting and allocation into a SWAG exercise. In today's data-driven world that seems broken. There...
Topic Intelligence
This past year Attensa introduced an entirely new platform. It evolved from our ongoing discussions with customers and mission to create systems that empower people to work smarter and more effectively by leveraging information and knowledge. The common objective that...
Taking the complexity out
At Attensa we work with complex organizations that are solving complex problems. Effectively managing information and knowledge is a core part of the business strategies of these organizations. But often complexity begets complexity. In the universe of business and...
“Honing in on the Relevant Stuff” | Jinfo (formerly FreePint) Reviews Attensa
Dale Moore is a UK-based content specialist and contributing author at Jinfo. Jinfo research is at the heart of the business information industry. Every day they work with information pros who are reimagining information services. Their focus is on aligning...
Information Sharing is the Grease in Workplace Collaboration
We've written a new Point of View on how the smart delivery of highly relevant information can stimulate new ideas, accelerate projects and move them into new productive directions. You can download it here. Workplace collaboration continues to be an important theme...
Competitive Intelligence: Use It or Lose It
Benjamin Gilad authored a thoughtful article on HBR.org titled: Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It, July 31, 2015. I would recommend the article to anyone involved in gathering or communicating strategic intelligence. The central thesis is...
Knowledge Management is Dead | Long Live the Intelligent Workplace
In the June 24, 2015 Wall Street Journal Tom Davenport wonders “Whatever Happened to Knowledge Management?” He should know. He wrote the book Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know. Knowledge Management isn’t dead but it’s gasping for breath. In...
Why No One Uses The Corporate Social Network
According to a recent McKinsey study, leveraging social technologies at the enterprise level may unlock a trillion (yes, trillion!) dollars. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many companies have placed large bets on these technologies as they seek to drive improved...
