Jim McGee
Jim McGee For over 30 years, Jim McGee has been helping organizations become more effective by making better use of information and communications technology. He’s attacked these problems as an entrepreneur, senior executive, professor, author, blogger, speaker, systems developer, designer, and consultant. Today, he works with senior executives in organizations to formulate, structure, and solve problems in the effective use of information technology in complex organizational environments. Jim has worked in senior positions with a variety of leading consulting organizations. In 1994, he was one of the Founding Partners of Diamond Management & Technology Consultants. Dr. McGee was also Clinical Professor of Technology, Innovation, and Electronic Commerce at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, IL where he developed and taught courses on knowledge management and the application of information technology to strategy. His knowledge management course was the first to require students to maintain their own blogs. He is the co-author, with Larry Prusak, of Managing Information Strategically. Jim is also a frequent public speaker on topics of knowledge work, knowledge management, organizational impacts of technology, information analytics, and learning.
Recent Posts
- - Emergent behavior and unintended consequences in social systems
- - Will organizational leaders accept the evidence about incentives and creative work?
- - Innovating innovation: An Interview with Scott Anthony of Innosight
- - Constraints and innovation – is there a silver lining?
- - danah boyd on new habits in a connected world
Recent Comments
- - Certainly many emergent behaviors are undesirable. Maybe I was playing…
- - I gave serious thought to pointing to Alfie Kohn here…
- - My own sense is that small businesses are generally less…
- - I agree. I often find my best ideas start from…
- - I'm not quite sure what to make of Schrage's observation.…
All Posts
- - Emergent behavior and unintended consequences in social systems
- - Will organizational leaders accept the evidence about incentives and creative work?
- - Innovating innovation: An Interview with Scott Anthony of Innosight
- - Constraints and innovation – is there a silver lining?
- - danah boyd on new habits in a connected world
- - A reader’s guide to Clay Christensen and disruptive innovation
- - Gary Hamel and innovations in management
- - Bridging analytic and managerial cultures, Part 2
- - Bridging analytic and management cultures, Part 1
- - Fun with constraints, knowledge, and design
- - Tools for tackling wicked problems: Review of Jeff Conklin’s “Dialogue Mapping”
- - Management and messiness
- - C-words of knowledge
- - Social media experience at Mayo Clinic
- - Cisco as an emerging Enterprise 2.0 case example
- - Social media lessons from the Obama campaign
- - Was being a fast follower ever a viable strategic option?
- - A workbook on doing disruptive innovation effectively
- - Dueling philosophies: social media vs. knowledge management
- - Knowledge work and micro-processes
- - Michael Wesch’s anthropological introduction to YouTube
- - Technology for us – the heart of Enterprise 2.0?
- - Cognitive surplus and organizational slack
- - Designing with “harmless failures” in mind
- - Designing with failure in mind
- - Dealing with social in the enterprise
- - Thinkers you should know – danah boyd
- - Andrew McAfee/Tom Davenport Discussion: Friday, January 11, 11-12 EST
- - A dozen papers you should read in the world of Enterprise 2.0
- - A new voice in the blogging firmament – Abbie Lundberg of CIO
- - The problem of emergence
- - More on knowledge management as learning support
- - Knowledge management = creating environments for learning
- - It’s not about creativity, it’s about curiosity
- - Going hands on to get your arms around Enterprise 2.0
- - Knowledge management: the newest battle between the neats and the scruffies
- - Better thinking about performance improvement
- - Developing an eye and ear for Web 2.0 phenomena
- - Warren Bennis on Great Groups
- - Balancing diligence and laziness
- - Web 2.0 Mindmap from Ed Yourdon
- - Literate thinking as a barrier to Enterprise 2.0 adoption
- - Alan Kay on learning and technology
- - Auditors and Enterprise 2.0 technologies
- - Starting to unpack the promises of Enterprise 2.0
- - Strategic sensemaking and Enterprise 2.0 technologies
- - Tips for gaining adoption of Enterprise 2.0 technologies
- - Can Enterprise 2.0 evolve from Enterprise1.0?
- - Designing spaces for doing knowledge based work
- - Implementing social technologies inside organizations
- - An Enterprise 2.0 case study from 1998





