A Technology Broker and Management Company Specializing in KM Systems
Favorite An example from Schlumberger shows us how selecting KM technology should be done. image from wikimedia commons At the KMUK conference a few years ago, Alan Boulter introduced us to the Schlumberger approach to selecting Knowledge Management technology. This is a very straightforward contracts to the common “gadget-store pick
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Shared by Nick Milton August 29, 2018
Favorite Can Safety Management be a good analogue for KM? In many ways, Safety Management is a good analogue to Knowledge management. Vintage safety poster from public domain images Both are management systems for dealing with intangibles. Both are leaps in thinking from treating safety/knowledge as something personal, to treating
Read More Shared by Nick Milton August 28, 2018
Favorite Here is a recording I gave of a talk to ISKO in Singapore, on the topic of “Selling KM” Courtesy of Patrick Lambe ISKO SG Nick Milton How to Sell Knowledge Management from Patrick Lambe on Vimeo. View Original Source (nickmilton.com) Here.
Favorite A lurker within the massively collaborative Polymath project explains the benefit he received. Lurking Cat, by Filip Maljkovic, on Flickr The Polymath Project is a collaboration among mathematicians to solve important and difficult mathematical problems by coordinating many mathematicians to communicate with each other. The project uses a blog,
Read More Shared by Nick Milton August 23, 2018
Favorite Here’s another reprieve from the archives – 50 ways to wreck your KM strategy When I wrote “Designing a successful KM strategy” with Stephanie Barnes, we originally included a final chapter on “how to wreck your strategy” – a list of 50 things not to do (similar to the chapter on
Read More Shared by Nick Milton August 22, 2018
Favorite There should be no difference to learning from success and failure. Kipling wrote, in “If” – “if you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same..”. As knowledge managers we try to collect lessons from projects which have been triumphs and projects which
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Favorite A simple but effective definition of KM I was moved to reprise this video, from 2009, in which I offered a simple definition of KM, because I was very pleased to see the same definition appearing in a speech this week by by Director Dr Haji Mohd Zamri bin
Read More Shared by Nick Milton August 20, 2018
Favorite In 1996, Karl Wiig and colleagues made a set of predicitions about the future of KM. How right were they? The 1996 article by the Knowledge Research Institute (Towe, Pizziconi and Wiig) entitled “Knowledge Management; Where Did It Come From and Where Will It Go?” not only presented a timeline
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Favorite From an old article, a time line of the first 21 years of KM – taking us up to 1996 This time line is taken from the 1996 article by the Knowledge Research Institute (Towe, Pizziconi and Wiig) entitled “Knowledge Management; Where Did It Come From and Where Will
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Favorite Sharing is no guarantee of uptake. Sometimes better practices and innovations take a long time, and require a lot of support, to take hold. Here is a very interesting article from the New Yorker, by Atul Gwande, about why some ideas or best practices catch on and spread, while
Read More Shared by Nick Milton August 15, 2018