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How much knowledge can one person have?

Favorite What are the limits to one person’s knowledge? Other than being “one personbyte”? Books in a stack by Evan Bench on Flickr The April 1, 2017 edition of New Scientist magazine has the theme of Knowledge, and contains a set of Knowledge-related articles, one of which deals with the issue

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Shared by Nick Milton April 5, 2017

Knowledge, Justified True Belief, and David Brent’s dance

Favorite If Knowledge is Justified True Belief, then what does “Justification” entail?  A recent New Scientist article, and a BBC charity video, give us some pointers. BBC Comic Relief charity video including Ricky Gervais’ character “David Brent” The April 1, 2017 edition of New Scientist magazine has the theme of

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Shared by Nick Milton April 4, 2017

Describing and measuring the KM culture

Favorite To manage something, you need to be able to measure it. But measuring culture is a very difficult task. Culture is a key issue in Knowledge Management, but culture itself is hard to define and hard to describe  (my favourite definition of culture is “how we behave when nobody

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Shared by Nick Milton April 3, 2017

Formal KM v informal – Connect v Collect

Favorite People are often instinctively drawn towards one component of Knowledge Management. Here’s a way of looking at those components. Choices about the approach to KM are often made implicitly, emotionally, or through assumption, so it’s worth taking time out to analyse these approaches intellectually, before starting work on your

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Shared by Nick Milton March 31, 2017

Pride as a KM disincentive/incentive

Favorite Pride is an interesting motivator in Knowledge Management. In some cases it acts as a real dis-incentive, but if harnessed well it can be a powerful driver for KM behaviours. Proud Lion from Public Domain Pictures I was reflecting on this recently while running one of our powerful Bird Island

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Shared by Nick Milton March 30, 2017

The leaders who grew up with KM

Favorite Knowledge Management is now, in some industries, old enough that that leaders “grew up” with KM as a resource.  What difference does this make? Average length of time different industries havebeen doing KM. Data from the 2014 Knoco KM survey. We are many of us familiar with organisations where

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Shared by Nick Milton March 29, 2017

The lesson-learning workflow at Continental Automotive

Favorite Here is a link to a description of lesson-learning at Continental Automotive, including a well-developed lessons workflow. It is a good example of Level 2 lesson learning as described yesterday. Image reproduced from here The Lesson-learning workflow operates as follows: A user creates a draft lesson and submits it to the

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Shared by Nick Milton March 28, 2017