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Favorite There is a natural lifecycle or maturation cycle for communities of practice, and in the most mature stage they become a vehicle for strategy. Image from wikimedia commons We can see that through the many Maturity models that people have set up for CoPs, that there is a maturation
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Shared by Nick Milton May 16, 2017
Favorite The Knoco 2017 survey of global Knowledge Management has recently closed, with submissions from 428 participants. Here is an interesting insight from the preliminary results. This insight is a combination of two of the questions, and it seeks analyse the most effective ways to get your KM program started.
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Favorite Good quality positive dialogue helps us “map out the elephant” KM working team – me third from left I have just spent a really interesting couple of days on the working team for the ISO KM standard, and one of the most interesting things was the diversity of emphasis
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Favorite This is a post from 5 years ago that bears repeating. CoP Launch, Middle East What factors make a Community of Practice successful? What can you do to help develop a lively, open, asking-and-sharing CoP that adds real business value? These nine success factors come from a study by the Warwick Business
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Favorite Does the knowledge in your head belong to you, or does in belong to the organisation you work for? The answer is not as clear as you might think. Confidentiality by Kathy Kimpel on Flickr A few years ago there was a spirited discussion on Linked In, about who
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Favorite You will inevitably make mistakes in your Knowledge Management program. Make sure they are small ones, not fatal ones. Mistakes by Ron Mader on Flickr Knowledge Managers need to learn, learning requires experimentation, experiments often lead to mistakes, but mistakes can be costly and derail your program. That’s a
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Favorite Knowledge Management is such a fuzzy term that looking for a KM job is a minefield. One way to see what these jobs actually entail is to use a word cloud as a simple text analysis tool, and see which words leap out. Here are 8 recent jobs posted
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Favorite Please fill in the poll, then read some of the commentary below (I am not sure this poll is working. If not, My apologies!) How easy is it being a Knowledge Manager The reason I wanted to run this poll was because of some of the sad comments I
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Favorite Teams and individuals who are winning, are often the poorest at learning – a particular form of “winner’s curse”. Great Quotes about learning, by Aaron Osborne on Flickr Who learned more about Tank Warfare from World War One? Was it the victorious Americans, British and French, or the losing
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Favorite Each organisation has its own culture, and the terms you use in KM need to fit that culture. Culture clash by Pascal on Flickr Every organisation that works with knowledge needs some form of Knowledge Management, but the words they use to describe component elements of KM may be
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