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Favorite Creativity is a process We often struggle with innovation and creativity in organisations; assuming you need a sprinkling of lone creative geniuses – a few “Steve Jobs-type” people – to make new breakthroughs. This is not true. What you need is a deliberate creative process, as described in the
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Shared by Nick Milton October 14, 2019
Favorite If knowledge can be seen as an asset, then knowledge management can learn from asset management ISO 55000 defines Asset management as the “coordinated activity of an organisation to realize value from assets”. In turn, Assets are defined as “a item, thing or entity that has potential or actual
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Favorite Here is another in our series of success stories quantified benefits, this time from Continental. The Tyre manufacturer Continental has a number of Knowledge Management initiatives under way, including The collaboration platform ConNext, which links wikis, blogs, and community forums. More than 16,000 communities, some of which are more
Read More Shared by Nick Milton October 10, 2019
Favorite The size of KM teams depends on the size of the organisation, and the maturity of the KM program. Yesterday I talked about the need to put your A-team onto the KM implementation program, and discussed some of the skills you need on the team. What I did not
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Favorite Introducing Knowledge Management to an organisation is a process of massive disruption and change (or at least it should be!). You need your very best team on the job. Image by Joe Haupt on Flickr One of the most frustrating situations you can face as a consultant is working
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Favorite Knowledge Management, if applied within an organisational process such as a project management structure, needs to be closely linked with the other disciplines within the project. Three of the key interactions are described here image from wikimedia commons Knowledge management is not a stand-alone discipline; it needs to operate
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Favorite It seems every country around the world wants to be a Knowledge Economy. Yet why do so few of them seem to want to invest in Knowledge Management? A knowledge economy is one where knowledge resources such as know-how and expertise are as critical as other economic resources. It
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Favorite If a start-up is successful, it needs to think about Knowledge Management from the beginning – not because KM is important at the beginning, but because without KM it could really struggle to scale up. At the beginning of its life, a start-up company is built on the insight,
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Favorite In a post from 2009 (no longer available) Lucas McDonnell provided 6 signs that your Knowledge Management strategy could be in trouble. I have added 4 more. Image from wikimedia commons Lucas’ 6 signs are as follows, with my comments in brackets, and then I add a few more trouble signs
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Favorite Very often people will say to you “we don’t have the time for Knowledge Management”. But what does this really signify? Image by on Paul Downey on Flickr “We are busy” they might say; “We have lots of real project tasks to do – we can’t take time off
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