Many years ago when I was a researcher in a European think-tank, I wanted to develop an automatic way to map information flows within large organisations. The basic idea was to data mine the corporate email system to discover how new information spreads through the organisation – and along the way map ‘unofficial’ communities of practice. I never got there because I was distracted by an offer to work in Boston on an internet project at MIT’s Sloan School and the Lotus Development Corporation.
Many years ago when I was a researcher in a European think-tank, I wanted to develop an automatic way to map information flows within large organisations. The basic idea was to data mine the corporate email system to discover how new information spreads through the organisation – and along the way map ‘unofficial’ communities of practice. I never got there because I was distracted by an offer to work in Boston on an internet project at MIT’s Sloan School and the Lotus Development Corporation.
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