Quanitified value story number 111, multiple benefits at Goodyear Tire company

As the 111th entry in our ever-growing list of examples of Quanitified Benefit from Knowledge Management, here is a story on value and value measurement at Goodyear Tire Company, described by KM World Magazine.

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Goodyear use what they call “value pyramids” for each key KM initative, to track knowledge impact on delivery results, Using this approach, they have identified the following KM value impact:

• a 50 percent reduction in development cycle time;
• associates using KM-developed Learning Journals achieve competency three months faster,
• project teams using the Knowledge Sweep method/service have saved up to eight weeks in development time, and
• the ACE Lessons Learned method has resulted in numerous updates to design standards.

This has been delivered through:

• findability skills,
• online collaboration habits,
• expertise definition and location,
• lessons learned definition and sharing,
• use of and benefits of tagging,
• cross-functional and cross-geographical valuation,
• knowledge worker recognition methods and
• multigenerational team approach.