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Favorite How can communities of practice add value? Let me count the ways. Image from wikimedia commons Here’s a list we made of 27 different mechanisms by which a community of practice can add value to an organisation. No doubt you can think of more! Community members can solve problems
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Shared by Nick Milton May 19, 2017
Favorite A preliminary result from the Knoco 2016 survey suggests that Communities of Practice may be getting smaller over time. In our survey of Knowledge Management around the world, we asked a series of questions about Communities of Practice, one of which was “What is the typical size (number of
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Favorite The way we write reports, especially scientific reports, is not the way we should write Knowledge Assets in a Wiki. Image from MaxPixel I am consulting with a firm which is moving much of its current knowledge into wiki format, on order to take it out of the document
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Favorite There is a natural lifecycle or maturation cycle for communities of practice, and in the most mature stage they become a vehicle for strategy. Image from wikimedia commons We can see that through the many Maturity models that people have set up for CoPs, that there is a maturation
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Favorite The Knoco 2017 survey of global Knowledge Management has recently closed, with submissions from 428 participants. Here is an interesting insight from the preliminary results. This insight is a combination of two of the questions, and it seeks analyse the most effective ways to get your KM program started.
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Favorite Good quality positive dialogue helps us “map out the elephant” KM working team – me third from left I have just spent a really interesting couple of days on the working team for the ISO KM standard, and one of the most interesting things was the diversity of emphasis
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Favorite This is a post from 5 years ago that bears repeating. CoP Launch, Middle East What factors make a Community of Practice successful? What can you do to help develop a lively, open, asking-and-sharing CoP that adds real business value? These nine success factors come from a study by the Warwick Business
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Favorite Does the knowledge in your head belong to you, or does in belong to the organisation you work for? The answer is not as clear as you might think. Confidentiality by Kathy Kimpel on Flickr A few years ago there was a spirited discussion on Linked In, about who
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Favorite You will inevitably make mistakes in your Knowledge Management program. Make sure they are small ones, not fatal ones. Mistakes by Ron Mader on Flickr Knowledge Managers need to learn, learning requires experimentation, experiments often lead to mistakes, but mistakes can be costly and derail your program. That’s a
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Favorite Knowledge Management is such a fuzzy term that looking for a KM job is a minefield. One way to see what these jobs actually entail is to use a word cloud as a simple text analysis tool, and see which words leap out. Here are 8 recent jobs posted
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