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Favorite Many Enterprise Social Network adoptions have stalled. What lessons can we draw for Knowledge Management? Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) technologies such as Yammer, Slack and Facebook for Business are often introduced on the same premise as Knowledge Management – that these technologies will allow staff to share knowledge, collaborate,
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Shared by Nick Milton January 10, 2018
Favorite Courtesy of IT Jobswatch, UK, here is a summary of the state of UK IT-related KM job market Basically, the job market is much the same or slightly better than last year, and a bit worse than it was 2 years ago. Median UK salaries seem pretty constant. These
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Favorite Knowledge adds value when it is current, useful, validated, acccessible, combines knowledge from many sources, and is packaged in a usable format. Here’s how Siemens does its knowledge synthesis and packaging. Siemens define a knowledge asset as being Validated Explicit knowledge on a value-adding Business processes. I like this definition, as it
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Favorite Thank you for your support for this blog in 2017 – here is a review of the year, and our Top 10 posts. More will follow in 2018 Average number of blog user sessions per week through 2017 Support for this blog has been steady during 2017 after a
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Favorite Here is a reference to a great story about the value of simple KM in healthcare The story is taken from a California State University blog on KM, and references an earlier Times Magazine story, available to subscribers. The Time magazine is ostensibly about doctors’ pay, but also describes
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Favorite Here are three powerful principles about building an effective learning system. The principles come from his interesting article about CAVNET – an online forum for the junior leaders of the US Army 1st Cavalry. It’s worth reading the whole article, but I share below some of the points made by
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Favorite Here is a really interesting article about the ways in which Communities of Practice can be embedded in an organisation The article is about the management of Networks of Practice in the development sector, and how to draw the balance between managing them too much, or too little. The authors (Marlous
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Favorite When you are setting up a KM function, where should it report? Here are some statistics about the most common reporting set-ups. The statistics are drawn from all respondents to our 2014 and 2017 global KM surveys. Any any multiple responses from the same company have been removed from
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Favorite Here is a very interesting talk, by Clay Shirky, the writer on Internet Technologies and Society In the talk, he points out that over the history of online collaborative groups using social software, there is a predictable pattern which emerges time after time in open unmoderated groups, namely that
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Favorite Another example role description for you, this time for the Global head of KM for Herbert Smith freehills, the massive multinational law firm (found on LinkedIn). It’s a really nice job description, with a good focus on the overall objective of the role (bullet point 1) and on change
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