Favorite It has been fifteen years since I wrote my first solo KM book, “Knowledge Management for Teams and Projects“. I reproduce below the final chapter, that attempts to summarize the main conclusions for three groups of key Knowledge Management actors; the project managers and knowledge managers, the Community coordinators
Favorite Today AWS is pleased to announce that it is working with Facebook, Microsoft, and the Partnership on AI on the first Deepfakes Detection Challenge. The competition, to which we are contributing up to $1 million in AWS credits to researchers and academics over the next two years, is designed
Favorite From our global survey, the reasons why 18 organisations gave up on KM, and how to stop this happening to you. One of the questions in our 2014 and 2017 Global Survey of Knowledge Management asked about the current status of KM in the respondents’ organisations, and for those
Favorite A large proportion of your organisational knowledge is never written down, and is often too complex or too contextual to transfer in written form anyway. If you need to find this knowledge, you need find the person. But how? This picture by unknown artist is licensed under CC BY_SA
Favorite Once KM is in place, to keep it in place you need a Knowledge Management Policy. This picture by unknown author is licensed under CC BY-SA Once you get past the early years of implementing Knowledge Management, when you are doing the testing, training and piloting, you need to be
Favorite The AWS DeepRacer League is the world’s first autonomous racing league, open to anyone. Announced at re:Invent 2018, it puts machine learning in the hands of every developer in a fun and exciting way. Throughout 2019, developers of all skill levels have competed in the League at 21 Amazon
Favorite There are many people who really don’t like the term Knowledge Management, and would much rather use some other terminology. But logically, these two words go together. There is a common view that the term “Knowledge Management” is an oxymoron; that “knowledge cannot be managed” and therefore the term
Favorite The 2019 Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason is here after an exhilarating regular season in which fans saw many exciting new developments. MLB and Amazon Web Services (AWS) teamed up to develop and deliver three new, real-time machine learning (ML) stats to MLB games: Stolen Base Success Probability, Shift
Favorite Knowledge Management case studies are often from the manufacturing, projects, operations or service world. However Knowledge management can be applied to any business activity. In this reprise from the archives, we look at how it can apply to Sales. Sales team meeting by Jim Larrison on Flickr The sales
Favorite What do companies around the world identify as their primary KM strategic approaches? This was another area we wanted to explore in our two global surveys of Knowledge Management. One of the questions in our surveys therefore covered the topic of strategic focus areas for KM, and we asked