Knowledge Networking
By Brooks Jordan | October 22, 2007
People have been trying to figure out workflow for a long time. It’s a hard problem to solve. How do you get that damn work to flow, anyway? Here’s the essential problem: flexibility versus structure, freedom versus coherence.
At a company I worked with this year, we talked a lot about “knowledge flow” and how to make it a reality.
Apps like Twine from Radar Networks are talking about that, too. They’re calling it “knowledge networking” and not only is it a framework of feeds, and social, but Twine is, they claim, intelligent enough to understand the significance of the information, too, through semantic interpretation, natural language processing, and machine learning.
Most companies with a few hundred employees or more are working at less than 50 percent capacity. But if they could ever figure out workflow, a few could transform themselves overnight.