Many presenters repeated that understanding the culture and obtaining top management support is very important. Interestingly, Gerard Bredenoord and Abdul Nasir added to involve senior management in the actual KM activities ; this is fostering both support and culture. On the technology side, simplicity was the dominant voice. MORE >>

Do we first require an organizational culture adaptation prior to any meaningful Enterprise 2.0 tools need to become so simplistic, easy to use and of course generally available to an organization before a culture can be considered connected, flat and more collaborative? That should change the culture, right? adoption? MORE >>

Knowledge management is heavily dependent upon the culture of the organization (both the real culture and the desired culture). Tags: culture knowledge+management 37signals atlassian backpack basecamp chatter confluence elgg highrise pkm salesforcecom teampage traction zoho Another long post. My apologies. MORE >>

Sharon Richardson has a great post talking about When culture doesn't matter. As Sharon says, it isn't the fault of culture that your idea fails to stick. Tags: culture change sharonrichardson And so they either don’t change or do reluctantly, which can have worse outcomes than not doing anything at all. Check again. MORE >>

Defining Culture and Technology There has been a lot written over the last 2 decades on the impact of culture on technology and the impact of technology on culture. Rather than reiterate what they have written, I would like to look at a framework for further research in culture and technology. MORE >>