What the C box in Knowledge Management SECI really means.

Favorite Most of us are familiar with the SECI model from Nonaka and Takeuchi, but sometimes forget that C stands for Combination, not Collection. Image from wikimedia commons The Nonaka and Takeuchi SECI model for knowledge creation is well known in the KM world, with its 4 components of  Socialisation,

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Shared by Nick Milton June 1, 2017

3 arguments in KM we may never resolve

Favorite Here are three perennial KM arguments. Do they matter? (this is a reprise of an original blog post from 5 years ago) Mockingbird argument, from wikimedia commons Over the 20 years that we have been doing knowledge management, there has been a number of recurrent arguments that appear regularly,

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Shared by Nick Milton May 31, 2017

Dealing with the important urgent knowledge first

Favorite We often say that “Knowledge Management must be focused on the critical business knowledge”, but how do we identify what that critical knowledge is? There are actually two dimensions to identifying the criticality of a Knowledge Topic (at least in terms of steering your KM program). These are Importance, and Urgency

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Shared by Nick Milton May 30, 2017

A key lesson-learning role in the military setting

Favorite Lesson Learning is well embedded in the United States Army and forms a model which industry can emulate, especially when it comes to assigning knowledge management roles within the business. As explained in this excellent analysis from Nancy Dixon, lesson learning works well in the US Army.  This article describes some of the components

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Shared by Nick Milton May 29, 2017

Making Knowledge Visible

Favorite One of the biggest challenges in Knowledge Management is the invisible and intangible nature of Knowledge. How can we make knowledge, and knowledge gaps, visible to others?  You can’t see knowledge, you can’t measure it, you can’t tell when it’s missing, other than by observing it’s effects. This makes

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Shared by Nick Milton May 26, 2017

Which Knowledge Management Processes add most value?

Favorite I blogged yesterday about usage and value of Knowledge Management technologies. Here is a similar analysis, also drawn from our  2017 Global Survey of Knowledge management, of the usage and value of KM processes. We asked the survey participants to rate these different KM processes by the value they

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Shared by Nick Milton May 25, 2017

Which Knowledge Management technologies add most value?

Favorite Interesting results are coming through from the Knoco 2017 Knowledge Management survey, including this plot of comparative KM technology value. We asked the survey participants to rate these different types of technology by the value they have added to their KM program, including in the question the option to

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Shared by Nick Milton May 24, 2017

What the NASA CKO said about KM policies

Favorite Knowledge Management policies are still rare, and opinion on them is divided. Here is what the CKO of NASA said about the topic. Image from Wikimedia commons Knowledge Management policies are coming. When the ISO KM standard is in place, next year or the year after, a KM policy

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Shared by Nick Milton May 23, 2017

A value-led KM story

Favorite I have blogged many times about how Knowledge Management should be value-led, and driven by the needs of the business. Here’s a story of how one KM Community leader helped define that value in a very graphic form.  Image from wikimedia commons The story was told to me by

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Shared by Nick Milton May 22, 2017