Category Archives: WUKID

Heuristics for Building Great Products – Gordon Bell

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Skip Walter

One of the great entrepreneurs of the 20th Century died in 2011 – Ken Olsen who founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).  For 23 years, Gordon Bell served as the Executive Vice President for Research and Development (both hardware and software) … Continue reading →

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Too Much to Know – The Death of the Long Form Book?

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Skip Walter

At dinner the other evening at Crush with my valued all things marketing and branding colleague, Katherine James Schuitemaker, I shared with her that I finally produced a draft of the book on Attenex Patterns I’ve wanted to write for … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities – Really?

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Skip Walter

Russ Ackoff shared that the best knowledge system he knew was to have an intelligent set of graduate students that knew him.  In 1985 when we were meeting regularly, he described the joy every morning of coming in and having … Continue reading →

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ALL-IN-1 Philosophy

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Skip Walter

In the process of describing the Making of Enterprise Software – ALL-IN-1, I came across the ALL-IN-1 Philosophy we published in 1982.  I was impressed at how much I still adhere to this philosophy thirty years later.  This philosophy was … Continue reading →

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The Future of Higher Education – MLA Seattle

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Skip Walter

Action driving tweets – who knew that such few characters of text could drive action that leads to engaging learning. A few days ago, Cathy Davidson tweeted that she was headed to Seattle, WA to the Modern Language Association Conference … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data, Content with Context, Human Centered Design, Idealized Design, Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management, Learning, University, User Experience, WUKID | 6 Comments

The Four Boxes of Knowing

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Skip Walter

While reading David Weinberger’s latest book Too Big To Know:  Rethinking Knowledge Now that the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room is the Room, I was reminded of the Four Boxes of Knowing. … Continue reading →

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The Economy of the Firm – Russ Ackoff

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Skip Walter

Russ Ackoff had an incredible eye for looking at things we all take for granted and see the systems implications behind them.  As we gear up for another election year, and hear both parties share their vision for what democracy … Continue reading →

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Russ Ackoff – The Aesthetics of Work

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Skip Walter

While working with Russ Ackoff, he noticed that the company that we were working with at the time – Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) – seemed to be stuck in OK performance, but not exciting performance.  He pointed me to one … Continue reading →

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Japan Study Mission – A Learning Intensive Model

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Skip Walter

In the late 1980s I had the good fortune to participate in a Japan Study Mission while at Digital Equipment Corporation (now Compaq which became HP).  This activity was a great example in several areas of process innovation and adult … Continue reading →

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PhD General Exam – A Model for Mentoring?

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Skip Walter

Earlier this year, I was asked to serve on the PhD committee for Alex Thayer at UW HCDE along with the co-chairs – Charlotte Lee and Jan Spyridakis, and Cecilia Aragon.  I eagerly accepted as a way to understand what the process for … Continue reading →

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