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Favorite We often say that “Knowledge Management must be focused on the critical business knowledge”, but how do we identify what that critical knowledge is? There are actually two dimensions to identifying the criticality of a Knowledge Topic (at least in terms of steering your KM program). These are Importance, and Urgency
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Shared by Nick Milton May 30, 2017
Favorite Lesson Learning is well embedded in the United States Army and forms a model which industry can emulate, especially when it comes to assigning knowledge management roles within the business. As explained in this excellent analysis from Nancy Dixon, lesson learning works well in the US Army. This article describes some of the components
Read More Shared by Nick Milton May 29, 2017
Favorite One of the biggest challenges in Knowledge Management is the invisible and intangible nature of Knowledge. How can we make knowledge, and knowledge gaps, visible to others? You can’t see knowledge, you can’t measure it, you can’t tell when it’s missing, other than by observing it’s effects. This makes
Read More Shared by Nick Milton May 26, 2017
Favorite I blogged yesterday about usage and value of Knowledge Management technologies. Here is a similar analysis, also drawn from our 2017 Global Survey of Knowledge management, of the usage and value of KM processes. We asked the survey participants to rate these different KM processes by the value they
Read More Shared by Nick Milton May 25, 2017
Favorite Interesting results are coming through from the Knoco 2017 Knowledge Management survey, including this plot of comparative KM technology value. We asked the survey participants to rate these different types of technology by the value they have added to their KM program, including in the question the option to
Read More Shared by Nick Milton May 24, 2017
Favorite Knowledge Management policies are still rare, and opinion on them is divided. Here is what the CKO of NASA said about the topic. Image from Wikimedia commons Knowledge Management policies are coming. When the ISO KM standard is in place, next year or the year after, a KM policy
Read More Shared by Nick Milton May 23, 2017
Favorite I have blogged many times about how Knowledge Management should be value-led, and driven by the needs of the business. Here’s a story of how one KM Community leader helped define that value in a very graphic form. Image from wikimedia commons The story was told to me by
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Favorite How can communities of practice add value? Let me count the ways. Image from wikimedia commons Here’s a list we made of 27 different mechanisms by which a community of practice can add value to an organisation. No doubt you can think of more! Community members can solve problems
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Favorite A preliminary result from the Knoco 2016 survey suggests that Communities of Practice may be getting smaller over time. In our survey of Knowledge Management around the world, we asked a series of questions about Communities of Practice, one of which was “What is the typical size (number of
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Favorite The way we write reports, especially scientific reports, is not the way we should write Knowledge Assets in a Wiki. Image from MaxPixel I am consulting with a firm which is moving much of its current knowledge into wiki format, on order to take it out of the document
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