The role of corporate management in KM

Favorite Everyone has a role to play in KM, but what’s the role of corporate management? Copyright-free image from pxhere I pointed out last week that corporate management is one of the stakeholders for KM, and that they have certain needs from the KM program, but with these come responsibilities.

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Shared by Nick Milton October 13, 2017

"Time out" for knowledge

Favorite The concept of “Ba” in knowledge management is often assumed to represent a physical or virtual space. But what if it represents a time, rather than a space? New Office Chair, by Brendan C, on Flickr The term Ba was introduced, in the KM context, by professor Nonaka as

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Shared by Nick Milton October 12, 2017

KM’s 17 deadly sins

Favorite I found this in my archives, which comes from a Canadian Federal Government perspective in 1999. Notice how many still ring true today – truly little has changed in nearly 2 decades. The deadliest sins of Knowledge Management :    1. Continuing to operate a hierarchical organisation2. Fear3. Placing a

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Shared by Nick Milton October 11, 2017

The 4 key stakeholders for Knowledge management

Favorite There are 4 main stakeholder groupings for Knowledge Management, and you need to create value propositions for each of the 4.  FIGURE 09.1 Goals per stakeholder, by Jurgen Apello, on Flickr Implementing Knowledge Management is a change process; changing hearts and minds, attitudes and beliefs, and work patterns across

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Shared by Nick Milton October 9, 2017

10 things a KM champion needs to understand

Favorite Here are ten things a KM Champion needs to understand in order to do their job well. Image from wikimedia commons Understand your roleDiscuss this with the KM team until you have a clear idea what your role as Champion entails. It may contain elements such as the following:

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Shared by Nick Milton October 5, 2017

How can we learn lessons when every project is different?

Favorite This is another one to add to the “Common Knowledge Management Objections” list, and it’s worth thinking in advance what your counter-argument might be. It’s a push-back you hear quite often in project organisations: “We can’t do Knowledge Management, especially lessons learned, as all our projects are different”. I

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Shared by Nick Milton October 4, 2017

Ideal management support for KM

Favorite What’s the best kind of support your KM pilot or program needs? Here’s one example! Image from wikimedia commons This quote comes from an interview with a Knowledge Management lead. He had been running a KM pilot of a process rather like Business Driven Action Learning, where his team

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Shared by Nick Milton October 3, 2017