What’s the "white space" occupied by KM?

Favorite One of the issues involved in developing the ISO standard for Knowledge Management has been the definition of the “White Space” KM occupies. After all, if Knowledge management is to add any value as a discipline, it must cover areas not already covered by other disciplines. This was the

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Shared by Nick Milton October 31, 2017

8 arguments for having a KM Policy

Favorite What’s the point of having a KM Policy? Here are 8 arguments in favour. There comes a time when a KM strategy has done its job, and that’s when you need a KM policy.  Your Knowledge Management strategy is a strategy for change – a strategy for introducing the

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Shared by Nick Milton October 30, 2017

4 KM implementation lessons from Hoffman-LaRoche

Favorite Here are some useful lessons on KM implementation.   Taken from this article, here’s some lessons on KM implementation from the Hoffman-LaRoche experience. I quote “First, managers hoping to make a difference through better knowledge management should start by focusing on the right problem. Patricia Seemann chose a spot that

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Shared by Nick Milton October 26, 2017

The link between lesson learning maturity and effectiveness.

Favorite What is the best type of storage system for lessons learned? Our survey data compares the options. We conducted a big survey of Knowledge Management this year, following on from a previous survey in 2014. Both surveys contained an optional section on lesson learning, and across both surveys we

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Shared by Nick Milton October 25, 2017

Analysing questions and answers in communities of practice

Favorite Analysis of search trends is common in KM – and you can use a similar approach to analyse community questions and answers. Many organisations analyse internal searches of their Intranet or Knowledge Base, using tools similar to Google Analytics to find out what peopele are searching for, and what

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Shared by Nick Milton October 23, 2017

Lesson Quality in Knowledge management

Favorite Lesson quality is a crucial component of lesson learning. Poor quality lessons just lead to Garbage-In, Garbage out. Quality starts here, by Lydia, on Flickr I came across an interesting article recently entitled “Enhancing Quality of Lessons Learned” by Lo and Fong.  The authors look at lessons learned and how

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Shared by Nick Milton October 20, 2017

More data on the health of KM (revised)

Favorite Is KM dying, alive and well, or on life support? Let’s bring some data into the debate (this post updated based on further data). The debate about the health of KM is a perennial topic, with people variously claiming “KM is dead”, “KM is alive and well” or “KM

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Shared by Nick Milton October 19, 2017

"KM is all about change" – up to a point, and then it isn’t

Favorite Knowledge Management is only a change management exercise, until a certain point is reached. After that, it is about not changing. It is an accepted fact that introducing KM is all about change. You are bringing in  new processes, new roles, new technologies and new governance, that will enable,

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Shared by Nick Milton October 18, 2017