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Favorite Communities of Practice are a promising intervention in Aid and Development, but what do they need to make them work? Give a person a fish, you feed them for a day. Teach them to fish and you feed them for life. Set up a Fishing Community of Practice and
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Shared by Nick Milton February 4, 2020
Favorite We are built to share knowledge within our tribes. To improve knowledge sharing, build bigger tribes. Papua New Guinea – True North –on Flickr – source/credit: North Star Cruises. Photograph by David Kirkland. Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0) As humans, we have always had the ability, through language
Read More Shared by Nick Milton February 3, 2020
Favorite In this video, Ed Hoffman (ex-CKO of NASA) talks about some of the challenges facing a new CKO trying to introduce a new KM program. He concludes The KM program has to “fit” the organisation, and how people work The KM program should address pain points for people and
Read More Shared by Nick Milton January 31, 2020
Favorite We know that senior level support for Knowledge Management remains the greatest challenge for KM, and that once established, it is by far the greatest enabler. But how do you gain this support? My Knoco South Africa colleague Ian Corbett uses the matrix shown here to identify areas where
Read More Shared by Nick Milton January 30, 2020
Favorite Last week I started a set of blog posts likening KM implementation to a business start-up. Here is number 4 in the series. Image from wikimedia commons This blog series uses this analogy of a start-up to inform KM implementation. It reviews 5 common reasons for start-up failure and
Read More Shared by Nick Milton January 28, 2020
Favorite Last week I started a set of blog posts likening KM implementation to a business start-up. Here is number 5 in the series. Lean Start-up methodology, by Rebeca Zuniga on Flickr This blog series uses this analogy of a start-up to inform KM implementation. It reviews 5 common reasons
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Favorite Last week I started a set of blog posts likening KM implementation to a business start-up. Here is number 3 in the series. Picture from Needpix, author geralt (pixabay.com) This blog series uses this analogy of a start-up to inform KM implementation. It reviews 5 common reasons for start-up failure
Read More Shared by Nick Milton January 27, 2020
Favorite Yesterday I started a set of blog posts likening KM implementation to a business start-up. Here is number 2 in the series. Picture by Tumisu (pixabay.com) on Needpix In many ways, the initial implementation of Knowledge Management within an organisation is like the launch of a new product into
Read More Shared by Nick Milton January 24, 2020
Favorite If we liken KM implementation to a business start-up, there are many lessons we can learn and apply. Image by www.inkmedia.eu on Flickr In many ways, the initial implementation of Knowledge Management within an organisation is like the launch of a new product into a market by a start-up
Read More Shared by Nick Milton January 23, 2020
Favorite This is a short analysis of the story of WalMart’s preparation for hurricanes, in order to explore the link between Big Data and Knowledge. Hurricane Irma food distribution, by City of St Pete on Flickr One of the earliest and most famous “big data” stories is around Walmart and
Read More Shared by Nick Milton January 22, 2020