Favorite The text below is from an article entitled Getting the most from after action reviews to improve global health security Image from wikimedia commons “Tannenbaum and Cerasoli conducted a systematic review of findings from 46 studies. Limiting their analysis to studies that reported on the impacts of AARs on “quantifiable
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Shared by Nick Milton October 22, 2020
Favorite Here is a useful Boston Square which might help you unpack some of the assumptions behind knowledge transfer. Knowledge transfer is a term everyone uses, but often we can bring baggage and assumptions to the term. What exactly do we MEAN by transferring knowledge? How is it transferred,
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Shared by Nick Milton October 21, 2020
Favorite If mentoring is not working for you, try dedicated learning? Image from wikimedia commons Mentoring and coaching are tried and tested ways of transferring knowledge between an older experienced person, and a younger less experienced person. However this relationship often breaks down. In a recent study for a client
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Shared by Nick Milton October 20, 2020
Favorite There is a lot of value in a KM audit, so long as you do it regularly. In this post, I suggested that there are two types of KM surveys; the audit and the assessment. I said the first was like counting the apples in your orchard, the second
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Shared by Nick Milton October 19, 2020
Favorite For years, people have talked about tacit and explicit knowledge, but what about the other types? Confused, by Guudmorning on Fickr Tacit and explicit knowledge have been assumed to be the two main types of knowledge for most of Knowledge Management’s short history. Polanyi described tacit knowledge as the
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Shared by Nick Milton October 15, 2020
Favorite The 2020 Knoco survey shows (among very many other interesting things) data on how organisations plan to use the ISO 30401 standard. I have further analysed the dataset to see how the planned usage varies with KM maturity. 213 people answered the question, and the answers are shown in
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Shared by Nick Milton October 9, 2020
Favorite In 2016 NASA published their toolbox for KM. Here’s what is in it. See NASA source page This post is an update to my previous post on the NASA toolbox, which is getting rather out of date! NASA APPEL introduced their new organisation-wide HQ KM toolbox at the beginning
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Shared by Nick Milton October 8, 2020
Favorite A personal learning matrix reminds people of the sources of knowledge available to them. The matrix shown above is inspired by a really interesting blog post entitled “how rocket scientists learn” by Yasmin Fodil from NASA. Yasmin points out that Knowledge management is about the better application of collective
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Shared by Nick Milton October 7, 2020
Favorite There was a time when most people believed that there were 3 enablers for Knowledge Management; People, Process and Technology. We are now coming to realise realise that there is a fourth enabler. But what is it? It has been obvious for a while that people, process and technology
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Shared by Nick Milton October 6, 2020
Favorite If KM is a lean supply chain for knowledge, how can you measure the amount of waste in the chain? Shredded waste, image from wikimedia commons I have often used the concept of a knowledge supply chain as a way of describing Knowledge Management; the supply chain being a
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Shared by Nick Milton October 5, 2020
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