How KM links with other project disciplines

Favorite Knowledge Management, if applied within an organisational process such as a project management structure, needs to be closely linked with the other disciplines within the project. Three of the key interactions are described here image from wikimedia commons Knowledge management is not a stand-alone discipline; it needs to operate

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Shared by Nick Milton October 7, 2019

How knowledge management can support a knowledge economy

Favorite It seems every country around the world wants to be a Knowledge Economy. Yet why do so few of them seem to want to invest in Knowledge Management? A knowledge economy is one where  knowledge resources such as know-how and expertise are as critical as other economic resources. It

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Shared by Nick Milton October 4, 2019

KM for start-ups

Favorite If a start-up is successful, it needs to think about Knowledge Management from the beginning – not because KM is important at the beginning, but because without KM it could really struggle to scale up. At the beginning of its life, a start-up company is built on the insight,

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Shared by Nick Milton October 3, 2019

10 signs your KM strategy is in trouble

Favorite In a post from 2009 (no longer available) Lucas McDonnell provided 6 signs that your Knowledge Management strategy could be in trouble. I have added 4 more. Image from wikimedia commons Lucas’ 6 signs are as follows, with my comments in brackets, and then I add a few more trouble signs

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Shared by Nick Milton October 2, 2019

More on learning from success and failure

Favorite Here is a useful boston square on learning from success and failure I blogged earlier this month about “Win or lose, you should always learn“.  However the learning strategy you employ depends very much on whether you are in a fail-safe environment or whether (as in the Apollo 13

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Shared by Nick Milton October 1, 2019