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Favorite In today’s rapidly changing world, the speed at which your organisation learns can be a competitive advantage. Spitfies and Bf109 Dogfight, by Adam Purves on Flickr The world is changing, and the rate of change is speeding up. In the past, when progress was slower and the rate of
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Shared by Nick Milton March 4, 2019
Favorite If you do not capture knowledge in an atmosphere of respect, you will often not capture knowledge at all. Anonymous Unknown author [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] I blogged last week about Cognitive Dissonance – the way that people, when faced with the dissonance between their view of themselves as
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Favorite I posted on this blog 5 years ago on the topic of KM career paths, and suggested the following model for career progression within KM, at least within a larger organisation. Image from wikimedia commons Knowledge facilitator or Knowledge engineer. Doing the basic jobs of KM, facilitating meetings, conducting
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Favorite Produced by KM4 Health, the video below is a really good basic introduction to KM in healthcare View Original Source (nickmilton.com) Here.
Favorite “This time it’s different” can be the four most costly words in project knowledge management, if they are used as a reason not to learn from the past. Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity was “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. And yet, any
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Favorite Here’s a really great video on a small organisation operationalising a lessons learned process The organisation is Boulder Associates, an Architect and Design firm with a couple of hundred staff working out of a handful of US locations. The video was recorded at the KA-connect conference in San Francisco
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Favorite It is part of the human condition to deny our mistakes, but that makes it hard for us, and for our organisations, to learn. make no mistake, a photo by Meshl on Flickr. I can recommend a really interesting book called “Mistakes were made – but not by me
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Favorite There are two approaches you can use to KM – a supply-driven and a demand-driven approach, Which works best? JIT clock from pixabay “Just in time” knowledge transfer is transfer driven by Demand, and by Pull. Knowledge is transferred only when people need it, in response to an immediate
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Favorite Army learning is not just about fighting battles – here’s an example from disaster response Marines hand out rations in Haiti, by Marines Relief, on Flickr In 2010, the US Army was called in to provide humanitarian aid, including food and shelter, after a category 7 earthquake in Haiti.
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Favorite Are you learning lessons, or losing lessons? Kizar [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons A Lesson is an Investment It might take a project team of 10 people, one day to create, through facilitated discussion, ten high-quality lessons. So each of these takes one man-day to create; say £500 –
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