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Favorite How active should a community of practice be? Photo from maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com Healthy communities of practice are busy communities of practice, but what sort of activity levels should you aim at? It depends on the type of community, of course, and the excellent publication from the National College for School Leadership “100,000 heads are
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Shared by Nick Milton July 26, 2017
Favorite Here is a neat and concise set of KM Principles from the US Army. These KM principles for the US Army Traning and Doctrine command are taken from the website for the TRADOC Chief Knowledge Office. There are many KM principles here that could apply to any organisation. People
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Favorite Having knowledge, and doing something with that knowledge, are two different things. There is often a gap between knowing and doing. Why do you get teams or organisations that just don’t want to learn? Take the example of one company, with dysfunctional project management practices. They have had several external audits
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Favorite Found here, an interesting KM policy statement from the Hong Kong Police Force. Short, but powerful, and a good example of content for a Knowledge Management policy. Policy Statement The Hong Kong Police Force (the Force) attaches great importance to effectively managing the wisdom, experiences and knowledge accumulated, accrued
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Favorite In December 2011 I wrote a post titled 15 Knowledge Management Visions. Here are 30 more to add to the list. Shared Vision, by Bill ferriter, on Flickr All of these are vision statements for organisational KM programs, forming a core part of the respective Knowledge Management strategies. Some
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Favorite It is possible for the members of a Community of Practice to lose trust in the community as an effective support mechanism. Here’s one story of how that happened. The story is from one of Knoco’s Asian clients. This community started well, with 4 or 5 questions per week
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Favorite If you agree with me that the greatest value in organisational online discussion comes through answering questions, then Yammer’s default prompt does not help. “What are you working on?” asks Yammer – as a work-related version of the Facebook question “What’s on your mind”. As a way of getting
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Favorite Knowledge management needs empowerment – Knowledge provides empowerment. There is a close link between knowledge and empowerment. Let me illustrate this with two scenarios. Scenario 1.Betty is writing a policy paper. She looks online for ideas, and comes across some busy discussions from a similar organisation in another part
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Favorite Wikis can sometimes be difficult to sustain as a Knowledge Management tool. Here are 6 rules for success. Image from Wikimedia commons I was reading a great article called “Why Wikis at NASA” by John Verville, Patricia Jones and Mark Rober. In the article, they talk about NASA’s experience
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Favorite We can use a simple quadrant to remind ourselves of four areas of community knowledge activity. This diagram came out of a conversation with a community of practice leader, who was wondering what to do with his portal. He had created a massive database of community documents, and had
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