Archive for May, 2009
Why do smart people continue to use stupid tools?
In reflecting on some recent work where I have been participating as a team evaluator on projects for three different clients, I’ve come to realize how little difference there really is between the various review tools widely used in the pharmaceutical industry. Both in terms of what they do and what you get at the [...]
Why the Focus on Review Practices?
The following post comes from one of our colleagues, Jessica Mahajan. Jessica was involved on an interesting project at a Top-Ten pharmaceutical company. The project entailed assessing prevalent review practices applied to people working within one of the R&D groups. What Jessica examined was the complete review record (from first draft to final draft) for [...]
The Human Side of Leveraging Knowledge
Super short post today. I want to share with you a pair of posts from Nancy Dixon talking about the “people side” of knowledge management. Dixon talks about leveraging explicit knowledge, a concept we have addressed from time to time on this blog.
Here is post one
Here is post two