"Speed of learning" as a competitive advantage

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

The role of respectfulness when capturing knowledge

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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Shared by Nick Milton March 1, 2019

Knowledge Management career paths

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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Shared by Nick Milton February 28, 2019

Operationalising Lessons Learned in a small organisation

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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Shared by Nick Milton February 25, 2019

Lesson learning in the US Army – example from Haiti

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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Shared by Nick Milton February 18, 2019

Lessons Learned, or lessons lost?

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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Shared by Nick Milton February 15, 2019