The 2 axes of "KM space" in a project-based organisation

Favorite In a project-based organisation, we can look at Knowledge Management on two orthogonal axes which together map out the space within which knowledge flows. These are the in-project axis and the cross-project axis. Imagine a large project-based organisation, with multi-disciplinary projects operating in many different regions or divisions. KM

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Shared by Nick Milton December 10, 2019

What does mature KM look like?

Favorite Mature KM is a mixture of attitude, habit, and framework. If you visited an organisation that had truly embraced and embedded Knowledge Management, what would you see? What would be different and distinctive about that organisation? You would probably notice 3 things – attitudes, habits, and a solid KM

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Shared by Nick Milton December 9, 2019

6 potential KM implementation approaches

Favorite There are a number of strategic approaches that you can apply when implementing Knowledge Management. All have their failings – we recommend a combination of two of them.  There are many and varied ways to introduce KM to a company, and a lot of these fail. The main 6

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Shared by Nick Milton December 6, 2019

Introducing medical speech-to-text with Amazon Transcribe Medical

Favorite We are excited to announce Amazon Transcribe Medical, a new HIPAA-eligible, machine learning automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that allows developers to add medical speech-to-text capabilities to their applications. Transcribe Medical provides accurate and affordable medical transcription, enabling healthcare providers, IT vendors, insurers, and pharmaceutical companies to build services

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning December 4, 2019

General ignorance and the risks of outdated knowledge

Favorite Knowledge that “everyone knows” but which is quite wrong, it termed “General ignorance” and is a dangerous component of KM.  QI stage-set from wikimendia commons There is a highly amusing TV quiz here in the UK, called QI. One section of the show is called “General Ignorance”, and consists

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Shared by Nick Milton December 3, 2019