Favorite The risk of loss of the status quo can be a powerful disincentive for change, and can be a powerful factor working against knowledge management implementation. There is a very apt quote from Machiavelli (The Prince, 1532), which applies to Knowledge Management as it does to any change initiative:

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Shared by Nick Milton December 14, 2020

Favorite Knowledge Management has been a key factor in easing the demographic gap as older retiring oil-sector workers gave way to younger counterparts. Royalty-free image from Pixabay At the beginning of this century, the oil sector realised it was was facing a crisis of both manpower and knowledge.   During the

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Shared by Nick Milton December 10, 2020

Favorite The difference between Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Management lies in three words – systematic, routine, strategic. Quite often we find clients who don’t like the term “knowledge management” and prefer something like “knowledge sharing” instead. Often this comes from the assumption that “knowledge management” means “the management of knowledge”,

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Shared by Nick Milton December 9, 2020

Favorite Internal company search seldom works as well as Google, because so few people optimise the findability of their content. Image from Wikimedia commons People often cite Google as the gold-standard in search, but partly Google works so well because of the prevalence of search-engine optimisation in the World Wide

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Shared by Nick Milton December 8, 2020

Favorite The surge in remote working triggered by Covid lockdowns is exposing the need for Knowledge Management, especially when it comes to tacit knowledge. Image from wikimedia commons That is the argument of an interesting article from the Irish Times entitled Covid taking a toll on companies’ reservoir of workplace

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Shared by Nick Milton December 7, 2020

Favorite  Here’s how the Tata group uses KM as a core pillar of their group-wide excellence model Image from wikimedia commons The Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, and one of the biggest and oldest industrial groups in India. The group uses an annual assessment against the TATA Business Excellence

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Shared by Nick Milton December 4, 2020

Favorite It’s not often you see Knowledge Management mentioned in the annual report of a large organisation. Here’s why it’s in the Rolls Royce report.  image from wikimedia commons Company annual reports are documents that public companies prepare for their shareholders, to tell them the current state of finances, outline

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Shared by Nick Milton December 2, 2020

Favorite  Knowledge changes, and knowledge of some topics changes faster than others. This has massive implications for knowledge management. Image from wikimedia commons Knowledge is not static. It changes and develops over time. It has a half-life, and that half-life seems to be shrinking as the world speeds up.  Old

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Shared by Nick Milton December 1, 2020

Favorite In 2006, the World Health Organisation published a regional KM strategy for Health in Africa. This suggested approach for developing a regional KM strategy could potentially be used in other political contexts. Image under CC licence from pxherecreated by Mohamed Hasan Knowledge Management is not just for industry or

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Shared by Nick Milton November 30, 2020

Favorite  Here’s a great example of a Knowledge Asset created to fill a critical knowledge need. Sometimes a KM team needs to take the lead in creating (or facilitating the creation of) a knowledge asset to fill a knowledge need. This is an example from the US Army where this

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Shared by Nick Milton November 27, 2020