Over the course of the year, we, the analysts at Basex, hear from knowledge workers in the trenches about what works – and what doesn’t work – when collaborating with others. Based on our observations, we prepared – as a template – these New Year’s Resolutions with the hope that they will contribute to improved knowledge […]
Read MoreMy description of an interview I had a few weeks ago with a reporter from a major business publication, who was struggling with the use of the term “knowledge work,” struck a chord with readers and also other industry pundits. I especially enjoyed Melanie Turek’s commentary entitled: Knowledge Workers: They’re Everywhere (and What Kind of Business Reporter […]
Read MoreThe challenges to the knowledge worker are manifold; the challenges to the mobile knowledge worker are innumerable. The number of solutions, both hardware and software, that Basex analysts look at over the course of a year is in the thousands. Every day, several vendors brief one or more Basex analysts on a new tool that […]
Read MoreNewly-amended Rules of Civil Procedure concerning electronically stored information (ESI) take effect in all federal courts on December 1, 2006. This impacts a large number of constituencies, ranging from CIOs to records managers to lawyers and judges. These rules came about because 95% of records are created and stored electronically and, as a result, all […]
Read MoreA reporter/associate editor (we’ll call her Jane) from a major business publication called to discuss what she was writing about our research on knowledge work and knowledge workers in an upcoming piece. But she hesitates to use the term “knowledge worker” worrying that readers won’t know exactly what that means. My first thought harkens to […]
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