Seven potential building blocks of a KM framework

Favorite Knowledge management is a large and complex field, covering many elements, and applied in many different ways (see my blog post on 50 shades of KM for example). However there are a small number of Knowledge Management sub-components or modules which come up time and time again, and probably

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Shared by Nick Milton September 3, 2019

A twin-strategy approach to implementing KM

Favorite Implementing Knowledge Management requires two parallel strategies, like the two prongs of a fork. There was a very interesting article by Ron Bascue in the 2011 Fall edition of the US Army KM newsletter (now no longer available online), about a twin-strategy approach to delivering a Knowledge Management strategy.

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Shared by Nick Milton August 30, 2019

You can’t do KM without a budget

Favorite One of my Knoco colleagues was in a KM workshop a while ago with a client, and raised the issue of the KM Budget. One of the people in the room said “What? Does Knowledge Management need a budget?”  Budget, by 401(k) 2012, on Flickr, from http://401kcalculator.org My colleague

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Shared by Nick Milton August 29, 2019

Speed up training on Amazon SageMaker using Amazon FSx for Lustre and Amazon EFS file systems

Favorite Amazon SageMaker provides a fully-managed service for data science and machine learning workflows. One of the most important capabilities of Amazon SageMaker is its ability to run fully-managed training jobs to train machine learning models. Visit the service console to train machine learning models yourself on Amazon SageMaker. Now you

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 28, 2019

What makes a community of practice successful? Top 10 factors

Favorite There have been many articles and blog posts (including here) listing “Top Success Factors for Communities of Practice“. Usually these are based on a combination of experience and theory. Here’s a different approach. Image from wikimedia commons As part of our global global Knowledge Management Surveys in 2014 and

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Shared by Nick Milton August 27, 2019