The sound of India’s AI potential

Favorite On August 15, India’s Independence Day, it’s customary to sing Jana Gana Mana: the Indian national anthem, originally composed by the poet Rabindranath Tagore and adopted as the anthem after India gained full independence.   This year, together with Prasar Bharati and Virtual Bharat, we offered Indians a new take

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Shared by Google AI Technology August 18, 2020

An evaluation of a KM strategy – example from Oxfam

Favorite It’s not often you see a public review of a KM Strategy – here is a good example. Image by Stefan Erschwendner, on Flickr I blogged yesterday about Oxfam’s KM strategy. Oxfam referred to knowledge and to knowledge management several times in their 2013 to 2019 strategic plan, which allowed

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Shared by Nick Milton August 18, 2020

Amazon Personalize can now create up to 50% better recommendations for fast changing catalogs of new products and fresh content

Favorite Amazon Personalize now makes it easier to create personalized recommendations for fast-changing catalogs of books, movies, music, news articles, and more, improving recommendations by up to 50% (measured by click-through rate) with just a few clicks in the AWS console. Without needing to change any application code, Amazon Personalize

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 17, 2020

KM strategy map – example from Oxfam

Favorite A KM strategy map is a great way to visually connect KM activity and organisational strategy. Here is an example. Last week I blogged about Knowledge Management at Oxfam, and shared their Rights and Responsibilities table. In today’s post I use Oxfam again, as a demonstration of how to

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Shared by Nick Milton August 17, 2020

"KM rights and responsibilities" charter at Oxfam

Favorite What rights do your workers have in terms of access to knowledge? What are their corresponding responsibilities? Intermon Oxfam by on Mover el Bigote on Flickr Knowledge management is well developed in the aid and development sector, perhaps because knowledge, in this sector, as a more abundant resource than

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Shared by Nick Milton August 14, 2020

Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances featuring AWS Inferentia chips now available in five new Regions and with improved performance

Favorite Following strong customer demand, AWS has expanded the availability of Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances to five new Regions: US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland). Inf1 instances are powered by AWS Inferentia chips, which Amazon custom-designed to provide you with the lowest cost per inference

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 13, 2020

Yokoten – the Japanese approach to best practice sharing

Favorite How do Japanese organisations approach best pratice sharing? Let’s look at Yokoten Workers exchanging knowledge (genchi gembutsu)  Japan, exemplified by Toyota, has developed its own flavour of Knowledge Management.  Together with a local focus on knowledge development (Kaizen), knowledge documentation (A3) and the behaviours of Hansei we can add

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Shared by Nick Milton August 13, 2020