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Favorite Your KM communication plan should include external communication, primarily as a way to market internally. Image from wikimedia commons Knowledge Management implementation requires a communication strategy and plan, to help the stakeholders climb the ladder of engagement. One particularly useful strategy is to communicate your KM successes to the
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Shared by Nick Milton January 25, 2017
Favorite Here are 4 key skill areas you must not ignore when putting together your Knowledge Management implementation team. Image from wikimedia commons You know the four enablers of People, Process, Technology and Governance? What we call the four legs on the KM table? These four areas should be reflected in the
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Favorite Communication is key to KM. How could we do it better? Here’s what Knowledge managers say. BarCamp AMS 2005 Opening – 35Originally uploaded by roland KM is a change program, and communication is a lever in delivering change. Every Knowledge Management implementation needs a communication strategy. For all the
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Favorite What if you have no senior management backing for your Knowledge Management program? In a situation like this, your only recourse is to take a strategy known as “Guerrilla KM,” or “Stealth KM.” ExplosionOriginally uploaded by ˙Cаvin 〄 A Guerrilla Knowledge Management program is one where you work undercover,
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Favorite What sort of garden is your community of practice? Barnsley House kitchen garden, from wikimedia commons One of my stock sayings is that if knowledge is organic, KM is gardening. This recognises that knowledge is not a uniform commodity than can be counted out like money, but also recognises
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Favorite How do you know your Knowledge Management strategy is in danger of crashing? Here are 6 signs. These 6 danger signs are from a 2009 blog post by Lucas McDonnell, reproduced as a Linked-In Pulse article in 2015. Image from wikimedia commons 1. People outside your group don’t understand what you’re doing.
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Favorite Building on yesterday’s post, here is some more data on the success factors for CoPs. As part of the Knoco 2014 survey on Knowledge Management, participants were asked whether Communities of Practice (CoPs) formed part of their KM approach. 73% answered Yes. Interestingly, the people who answered Yes (and
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Favorite This blog has already published several articles about KM success factors. Here is another slant on the topic. Communities of practice are such as core component of any Knowledge Management Framework that people are very interested in why they work, and why they fail. We find, for example; the
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Favorite After Action reviews are one of the core tools in Knowledge Management – but what makes them so powerful? After Action review by US Army Europe on Flickr After Action Reviews (AARs) are like the Hammer in the Knowledge Manager’s toolkit – one of the most basic and most
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