KM - The Definitive Guide™

Visitor from US House of Representative

2005-06-16T01:27:00.000+05:30

Just when I was about to go to bed, I saw the stats of my blogs and saw a visitor from "US House of Representatives". Don't know what it means and what implications it may have... but I've got some attention. Probably.

National Knowledge Commission, India

2005-06-15T12:13:00.000+05:30

Quoted directly from the press-release (grammar may have been modified). Prime Minister of India, Mr Manmohan Singh, has constituted the National Knowledge Commission. Shri Sam Pitroda will be Chairperson and Dr P.M. Bhargava will be Vice-Chairperson. The Members of the Commission will be Shri Nandan Nilekani, Dr. Deepak Nayyar, Shri Ashok Ganguly, Dr. Andre Beteille, Dr. Jayati Ghosh and

Knowledge Management A-Z: Workshop

2005-06-13T12:03:00.000+05:30

On the KM group, Kate posts about the 2nd KM-AZ workshop on 23rd June, 2005 in Brisbane. The workshop shall focus on practical HOWTOs for top ten tools and techniques for KM. The workshop is accompanied, he says, with a 120-page guide to on-job KM application and implementation of each technique. Now, that's something pretty interesting and nice to have. If anybody's going to the

KM Awareness - How to Improve?

2005-04-21T09:59:00.000+05:30

How to improve KM1 awareness in an organization is one the first challenges while implementing any KM solution or creating the so called KM-Culture. Well, the best way, as Kondal says2, is to show how KM will benefit the participants - the individuals and the organization as a whole. Here are some ways suggested by him on the basis of his research at some global corporations in Automotive,

KM Features: 4 - K Repository Access

2005-02-25T22:50:00.000+05:30

In this article, we will look at the access rights to the documents in K-Repository, the common pool. As I mentioned earlier, it is very crutial to have restrictions to critical documents otherwise the document management system will be of no use. An organization may not want to share some documents with an individual or a group or may like to provide access to only selected people. The

KM Features: 3 - K Repository Population

2005-02-24T16:26:00.000+05:30

Here, we will see how we populate the K Repository by submitting various kinds of documents. We will also see that uploading a document is just one form of putting the information into the system. There can be more more methods. In this we will concentrate only on various modes of submission. The submission does not necessarily mean that the information / knowledge / content will be

KM Features: 2 - K Repository

2005-02-23T22:43:00.000+05:30

In my previous article in the series, I discussed about file browser. This article will cover the organizational view of DMS. In the last article, we saw how we can create an online repository of resources that can be accessed by individuals and groups anywhere, anytime. Of course, the access constraints are built in. Here we see how documents can be put up at a common place and group

KM Features: 1 - File Explorer

2005-02-22T12:48:00.001+05:30

File explorer, or WebSpace© as it is called in TeN™ Trans-e, is a must in any collaboration softawre and so also in KM software. WebSpace is the area where people or groups can dump their files for use by others or at other locations. What all features should a WebSpace have? Look at the screenshots below before the words: Not just being a

Knowledge Management

2005-02-21T17:47:00.000+05:30

Have I ever mentioned about this phrase before? The blogger search fails on any keyword on my blogs... donno why! May be still not indexed. You must have heard about this phrase every now and then. But what does it take to build a Knowledge Management System? What should be the essential features of the application? It cannot be a mere Knowledge-Base where you search for items. Starting

Business Process Execution Language

2005-02-20T17:37:00.000+05:30

I have been thinking and writing about workflows and how they can be used in each and every business process of yours. And suddenly I noted Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). I remember to have seen it about a year back but did not focus on it more so because in my previous job, I never needed it. BPEL was proposed by IBM and BEA. With Microsoft joining the bandwagon of

Workflow for Business Process Management

2005-02-19T17:49:00.000+05:30

Before starting on how Workflow approach is best suited for business proecss management (BPM), let me first define what BPM is all about and what all does it encapsulate. There are several definitions of BPM floating around. At the core of all definitions is tracking official processes and activities, tracking all items at each step in the process. You have guesses correctly. This is

eLearning - Part 2: Re-attempt to define

2005-02-18T21:42:00.000+05:30

We have focused on 'e' of eLearning but where's learning? It's the same thing that Dr. Srivathsan says - we have had lot of 'T' of IT but where's 'I'? As we saw in Part 1, most of the definitions have been trying to tackle the technological part of the systm. eLearning does all those things provided the system has good design and delivery. However, it should be kept in mind that at the

Workflow - Softwares

2005-02-16T19:59:00.000+05:30

Here's a list of some of the softwares that do nothing but workflow management. WARIA Workflow Toolkit e-Workflow There may be more... if you know, please do add them in comments and I'll ensure that they are incorporated in the list. Some more like TeN™ Trans-e do not only do Workflow Management but take a holistic and integrated view of an organization with services like

eLearning - Part 1: An attempt to Define

2005-02-15T17:32:00.000+05:30

This is what Google gave to me when I asked for eLearning definition and "e-Learning" definition, somewhere around 40k and 80k results. Let me give some of the definitions that I consider a fairly good attempt. This is "fairly good" only as per my thinking. You may differ. Learning Circuits Glossary reads: Term covering a wide set of applications and processes, such as Web-based

Workflow - A Step closer to 100% automation

2005-02-14T23:30:00.000+05:30

Everybody's looking for some or the other kind of automation. An employer needs to automate the process of hiring as much as possible. An employee needs to automate the process of applying for jobs. A teacher wants to automate the process of creating grade-sheet while a student wants them to be collected automatically. I need to automate the process of earning money!! Workflow, I believe,

Essential Features in an eLearning Software

2005-02-05T23:37:00.000+05:30

eLearning softwares and deciding its features is one of my most favourite areas to speak, read and write upon. In a sense, I eat, drink and sleep them... well, most of the time. I want to write on this immediately, after speaking, reading and thinking a lot on it. But it's a little late in the night, I am more tired and have to leave for my company HQ tomorrow. Wish me a Happy

Resume Unification

2005-02-03T16:13:00.000+05:30

Continuing from my previous write-up, I would explain by what I mean by "Resume Unification"©. If you are into recruitment, you would, for sure, know about the pains in filtering the resume for any opening. Wouldn't it be just great if this job is already done for you so that you shortlist from amongst the shortlisted ones? What we are trying to do is formalize a standard format so that

Competency Management System

2005-02-02T15:23:00.000+05:30

Organizations competing in today's marketplace need to maintain a competitive edge if they want distinguish themselves from their competitors. Employees must have the ability to quickly learn new skills, acquire new product information and adapt to changing business environments. Competency Management is an integrated part of TeN™ iLMS. It provides the structure for developing

Training C/C++/.Net Wannabe Experts

2005-01-28T16:47:00.000+05:30

Praveen Jain, whom I first met during my iterview at Adobe, is a great person to talk to and work with. Not only he is pure and simple, he is a friend indeed. With a great command in C and C++, he is master of many internal products / tools at Adobe. Having more than 10yrs of experience, that includes teaching, software engineer, computer scientist besides few others, he is a real

iLMS - integrated Learning Management System

2005-01-27T19:06:00.000+05:30

Last quarter saw an incredible performance not only in terms of the revenues (realized or promised) but also the kind of customer support that we've provided. We - who we? Uhho... by now you should have learnt about my employer - Transversal e Networks (TeN) - a software product company operating into eLearning, Knowledge Management, LMS et al. A truly fabulous team to work with. The

Republic Day - It had to be something

2005-01-27T14:00:00.000+05:30

26th January is celebrated every year as the Republic Day of the country. 26th January, 1950 is an important landmark in the history of the nation. And yesterday, the day did not let me down either (and I just noted that 26 represents number 8 - my lucky number). Read my next article detailing why I was overjoyed yesterday.

India's century has dawned

2005-01-22T11:55:00.000+05:30

As daily, I am reading Economic Times. And I happened to come across the article titled - "India's century has dawned", by Vivek Paul of Wipro. The article concludes: India still needs to build more efficient institutions and a more independent judiciary. Full article may be found here.

The "Knowledge Management" Puzzle

2005-01-22T01:18:00.000+05:30

The "Knowledge Management" puzzle makes me think. People talk a lot about it. I talk about it. People are working hard on it... and so are we. But the questions still remain unanswered. What exactly is KM? What does this phrase encapsulate? What breadth and horizons does it cover? What is the vertical limit? Many more questions remain unanswered... have you been able to define it?

Looking for a home

2005-01-18T23:58:00.000+05:30

I'm looking for an independent house for purchase in/near Kormangala, preferably within 10-15km of travel distance. Minimum area for the house should be 1000sq ft. If you are a broker / agent or can refer to somebody, leave a comment on the blog or call me at 93130-02845 or mail me at gaurav[dot]vaish[at]gmail[dot]com

Technical Articles

2005-01-17T17:23:00.000+05:30

Finally I've decided to create a new blog dedicated to technical articles. I want to separate my personal (read: literary) blogs from any other kind. And the first topic that comes to my mind - and very close to my heart - is technology. See you there... http://masterji.blogspot.com

Personal

2003-10-28T19:49:00.001+05:30

Ok.. Now, something about myself.Uff! Again, so many choices, so many starting points and I am supposed to choose which one.And I'm in a hurry right now... have to go for evening tea at 5 o'clock and it's already 4:46PM by my system clock which is supposed to be synchronized to one of the few atomic-clock servers around the world. How does this sound to you?Okay okay okay...

Random...

2003-10-28T19:49:00.000+05:30

Use this one, use that one.. I was confused as to use which one. Hey, I am talking about the layout of the Blogs Page. Have you ever had this problem of use which one? I have had a lot of times.. The second "which one" in just half a minute - use which category. Good that I had an option of "Add New Category". So, I'm writing off this in "Random..." category. The third "