Quantified value stories in KM – numbers 115, 116 and 117

As part of our series of stories and examples of quantified value from KM, please find below three examples from a 2015 article in the UAE National, entitled “Knowledge management is power for companies”

An example of KM in action is the case of El Paso Corporation – a 5,000-employee North American provider of natural gas and related products. To maximise the benefits of a new organisational structure and encourage communication, El Paso decided to try a KM programme focused on business opportunities and challenges. Its aim was to foster expertise within the workforce and share technical knowledge with a scorecard used to measure and report on the programme. Its elements included: savings, improvements, successes, costs and milestones. In the first year, the goal was to save the organisation US$500,000, but it delivered $1.2 million in savings.

“A recent best-practice transfer between KOC and other k-Companies in Kuwait, where technology and know-how have been transferred between companies resulted in savings of several million Kuwaiti dinars,” (Abdul Jaleel Tharayil, project leader of Knowledge Management Practice for Kuwait Oil Company) says.

“Another example is an internal collaboration between deep drilling and development drilling, which brought forth a reduction in non-production time by introducing a change in casing design, leading to savings of around 250,000 dinars.”

The Kuwaiti Dinar is currently worth about  3.3 US Dollars.