Via Knoco Stories:

“The most competitive and successful companies of the future will be those who figure out how to get the right knowledge and understanding to the right people at the right time, without formality or delay”

- Sir Peter Bonfield CEO. British Telecom

From his book Inspiring Leadership.

I write you, all of this week, from beautiful Switzerland. More precisely: beautiful Ticino within beautiful Switzerland. 

Some news research brought me back across the region's very first fully electronic news source, and location of one of my earliest jobs, Tio.ch. It was so long ago that most of my articles are archived now: I was still at university and joined the team as a cultural correspondent and, later, tech correspondent from the US (I was studying in New York). The most fun I have had on a job before Linex. 

I just came across this image from Reflections of a Knowledge Manager blog. If ever an image made a concept clear:

There is somewhat of an oxymoron in this title. Social Media - as the title suggests - is public and far-reaching. "Internal" automatically puts limits on the reach of a message. Many of us use social media tools precisely for this vast reach, so we can learn from others, network and hold virtual conversations about topics of interest. All of which we want to do within our organisations as well. 

This conflict is raised in an article by Oz Benamram - friend to Linex Systems - printed on the Managing Partner blog: Why most law firms' internal collaboration systems are doomed to fail. 

Well, video anyway. 

I blogged about Walking Meetings recently, picking up an article by Nilofer Merchant. 

If you're more of an audio person, I show you the TED video