Nelson Mandela, and the value he placed on Knowledge

Favorite This is a story I have reposted a couple of times, because its so uplifting to read of a World Leader who values Knowledge so highly. Image from wikimedia commons The text below is taken from the outstanding book “playing the enemy”, by John Carlin – a book about

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Shared by Nick Milton February 5, 2019

KM supports decision making, but which decisions?

Favorite There is a strong argument that the purpose of Knowledge Management is decision support. But which decisions should KM support? Peter Senge tells us that Knowledge is the ability to make effective decisions, and the new ISO standard 30401:2018 tells us that knowledge is “human or organizational asset enabling effective

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Shared by Nick Milton February 4, 2019

How KM gives benchmarking a purpose

Favorite KM can add purpose to internal benchmarking, by using it to drive knowledge sharing Image from wikimedia commons Many commercial organisations track internal KPIs.  They publish league tables of the different departments, and differentiate the high performers, and the poor performers. But Why? What’s the point? Surely not just

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Shared by Nick Milton February 1, 2019

Creating a communication strategy as part of KM implementation

Favorite This post contains quotes from KM teams about building a communication strategy to support KM implementation KM is a change program, and Communication is one of your most  levers in delivering change. Every KM implementation needs a communication strategy. Here is some guidance on a KM communication strategy, illustrated

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Shared by Nick Milton January 31, 2019

How to get KM traction with senior managers

Favorite Struggling to get traction with senior managers for your Knowledge Management initiative? That’s partly because they don’t know how much the organisation’s knowledge is worth. Show me the money, by Alan / Falcon on Flickr Ten years ago, my first ever post on this blog suggested that knowledge management is

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Shared by Nick Milton January 29, 2019

7 failure modes for knowledge transfer failure

Favorite There are at least 7 ways in which Knowledge Transfer can fail. Here are 7 of the most common. I am sure you can suggest others. This post is inspired by this article by John F. Mahon and Nory B. Jones, authors of the book “Knowledge Transfer and Innovation“. They

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Shared by Nick Milton January 29, 2019

This blog is 10 years old this month

Favorite It struck me recently that this blog is now 10 years old tenth birthday cake, by normanack on Flickr The first ever post was in January 2009, and since then I have written 2500 posts – an average of about one per working day. Sure there is some repetition,

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Shared by Nick Milton January 28, 2019

14 tasks for a Knowledge Manager

Favorite One in a series of 100 posts about KM roles and role descriptions, here are 14 tasks for a Knowledge Manager Tumyra Byron, Knowledge Operations manager, USAF Courtesy of Rob Dalton, and reproduced from this page on KM4Dev, here is his “Task list for a knowledge manager”. He originally

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Shared by Nick Milton January 25, 2019