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Favorite Many global organisations pass through a stage of global integration. Here is how KM helps. image from wikimedia commons Global organisations constantly draw a balance between global aspiration and local delivery. They need to balance agility and accountability in the local business units with the power and resources a
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Shared by Nick Milton May 21, 2018
Favorite The ISO KM standard is due for publication in September. Here’s the latest news, and what to expect when the standard is finally ready. The international committee at work on the standard this week.That’s me on the far right. Photo by Avigdor Sharon This week, in Paris, the ISO
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Favorite Another post from the archives – this time on embedding knowledge activities into organisational process One of the aims of Knowledge Management Implementation is to develop and embed a Knowledge Management Framework, including building KM activities into business process. I thought I would expand a little on how to
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Favorite “How can you implement a common approach to Knowledge Management, in a globally diverse company? How much of a Knowledge Management framework needs to be consistent around the globe, and how much can you vary on a local basis? The answer is that you select certain global commonalities, but
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Favorite This is a story about the Winners’ Curse – the observation that Leaders make poor Learners, often because they are unwilling to let go of the knowledge that made them leaders in the first place. The story is taken from the excellent book Profiles in Folly. The Wright brothers are
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Favorite Should you optimise your knowledge base for search or for browse? Answer to an online question. I received the comment below on my blog post on “Knowledge documents vs project documents“. “I found this a helpful blog. I am working on the implementation of a matter management system within
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Favorite Innovation has a recipe. Here is how it works It’s tempting to think of innovation as a “flash of inspiration” – a blinding idea – a lightbulb going off. However – counterintuitively – many of the most innovative and imaginative teams and companies use a structured and deliberate process
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Favorite What is the role of a knowledge auditor, and what is knowledge auditing? Every so often, a company may hold a knowledge audit. The objective of the audit is to look at the knowledge within the company, and see whether it is being properly managed. The purpose of the
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Favorite Fluor, the construction company, use the month of Knowvember” as an opportunity to publicise KM internally. Fluor are an international engineering and construction company, who have been applying a Knowledge management approach, based primarily on Communities of Practice, for nearly 20 years. And with a long-running program such as
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Favorite Lesson Management is a core component of Lesson Learning. Here are the story of how this capability was developed in Australian emergency services. This comes from the recent issue of the Australian Journal of Emergency Management, where Heather Stuart and Mark Thomason describe how Lesson Management was first recognised
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