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(Moved to the top) Good day all. I have just posted a new topic in the PKM Forum, regarding the future of Productivity Practices and what may lie ahead for us. Please take a look, and share what you think.

I have also put together a survey for my readers (that means you), that should help me focus on the topics and issues that are most important to you. Please take part in both community activities!

Take the Productivity in Context Survey

I have created a survey in which I would like to solicit your opinion on the direction that Productivity in Context should take during 2008, what types of articles you like, and which ones you do not. Please click here, or on the “Focus” knob at the top of the left sidebar, to participate.

There are only 6 questions, it should just take a minute, and it will help me provide you with the top-quality content that you are looking for. All answers are confidential, I can’t find out who you are. A few of you have taken the survey, and I thank you. I am working very diligently to provide the very best resource for Productivity and Leadership.

New Conversation in the Forum

Here is part of it:

• How is technology affecting productivity practices?
• Where will it be in five years?
• Will changes to the economy affect the way people view productivity?
• Established markets are in a state of flux, where is this one headed?
• What practical issues present an opportunity, or perhaps pose a threat?

And my answers:

1. I believe that web-based productivity tools will become more powerful and ubiquitous. As a new generation of programmers enter the workforce, and the open-source community grows in stature, I foresee more collaboration on creating these types of applications to manage not only productivity, but merging it with Knowledge Management and personal data access/security. Productivity practices such as GTD, DIT, and the 7 habits will be parsed and iterated until a new generation of workflow management appears. The next generation will utilize connectivity tools and personal electronic devices that we probably can’t imagine today, any more than Marvin Camras envisioned the CD-ROM or the iPod.

2. Five years is a generation away. Will there be a new David Allen or Stephen Covey to burst on the scene? Or perhaps a breakthrough software application? Maybe. And if so, how can we position ourselves to drive that change?

3. The economy of the West will continue to move through the Service-based model into the Information-based model. In the Pacific Rim, who can say for sure? Modern productivity and technological practices have leap-frogged the step-by-step implementation of the US and Europe. I believe that the European economy is…(click here to read the rest!)