A Technology Broker and Management Company Specializing in KM Systems
Favorite How do graduates search for knowledge, and what this means for KM. Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Here (summarised here and slides here) is a really interesting study about the difference between the strategies that new-hires use when seeking for information and knowledge, and the strategies their employers expect
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Shared by Nick Milton October 2, 2020
Favorite As humans, we are prone to unconsious bias, which can severely affect the way we work with knowledge. Follow the link in this post to see how biased YOU are! Image from book review“Thinking fast and slow” Cognitive biases can seriously affect the way we work with knowledge. I
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Favorite Courtesy of Patrick Lambe, please find below my video related to KM and Covid, presented at the ISKO singapore meeting on KM and the Covid Crisis ISKO SG KM and Covid Event – Nick Milton from Patrick Lambe on Vimeo. View Original Source (nickmilton.com) Here.
Favorite How do you know KM is failing in your organisation? This was a question raised yesterday at a workshop I ran a few years back at KM World. FAIL by amboo who? on Flickr Assuming you have introduced KM, embedded it into business processes, and the central KM team
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Favorite My favourite definition of Knowledge Management is the current ISO definition – “Management with a focus on knowledge”. But what activities does this management involve? RSiegel week 3 by Rebecca Siegel on Flickr I took an online collection of 65 KM definitions (now no longer available I am afraid)
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Favorite Implementing Knowledge Management involves identifying opportunities where KM can help the business. But how do you spot these opportunities? My Name is Opportunity, by One Way Stock, on Flickr Implementing KM is not just a case of top-down roll-out of a Knowledge Management framework, but should involve looking for
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Favorite Do learning organisations require learning leaders? Almost certainly they do, but will learning leaders require their organisations to learn as well? How well do leaders learn? There is the stereotype of the bull-headed CEO, hanging on to their dream, forging ahead single-mindedly until they dominate the industry. But is
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Favorite Here is an interesting story about a couple of scientists who created a craft which reached the edge of space, and who (as good knowledge workers should) captured their lessons learned afterwards. The surprise is that they were only 8 and 10 years old at the time! The young
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Favorite The knowledge workers represent one of your two main stakeholder groupings for Knowledge Management implementation. But who exactly are they? Image from CreazillaPublic domain licence Firstly we can eliminate from the group “knowledge worker” anyone who is purely a manual worker – someone who follows orders or preassigned inflexible
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Favorite Just incentivising knowledge publishing risks drowning the organisation in trivia. Social media overloadby Mark Smiciklas on Flickr I once had a conversation with a knowledge manager, who explained to me the incentive system they used for KM. My heart sank. In this particular organisation, people were incentivised to publish
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