Knowledge Management and modularisation

Favorite KM can support the approach of “modularised standardisation” Cargo Truck by Brickset on Flickr I wrote a blog post a few years ago about the powerful synergy between Knowledge Management and standardisation.  Knowledge Management, and the relentless focus on learning from experience, can very quickly drive the development of

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Shared by Nick Milton February 13, 2019

Can you outsource KM support?

Favorite Are there any parts of KM support you can outsource? If so, which parts? You have a successful Knowledge Management program under way. All is going well, but you are under increasing pressure with requests from the business, and you don’t have enough resources to respond to the demand.

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Shared by Nick Milton February 12, 2019

How "KM technology Push" failed at Engico

Favorite Implementing technology alone is often a reason for KM failure, and here’s a prime example. Grochim [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons One of the early successes of Knowledge Management was the Ford “best practice replication” system, known as BPR – a system for identifying, sharing and re-using process

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Shared by Nick Milton February 11, 2019

How much can a knowledge manager earn?

Favorite Here is another review of Knowledge Management salaries from various salary-comparison sites See similar posts from 2018, 2016, 2014, 2012 From Glassdoor we see an average salary of £46k (US$60k) and a range from £30k to £69k (US$39k to 90k) From IT jobs watch we get a bunch of useful stuff, though

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Shared by Nick Milton February 8, 2019

How the coastguard seeks input to lesson learning

Favorite Public organisations can learn from the coastguard when it comes to getting wide scale input to lesson learning US coastguard units train on Lake Ponchartrain by  Coast Guard on Flickr Any public organisation, especially one with an element of high priority service, needs a lesson-learning process to improve that service.

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Shared by Nick Milton February 7, 2019

Nelson Mandela, and the value he placed on Knowledge

Favorite This is a story I have reposted a couple of times, because its so uplifting to read of a World Leader who values Knowledge so highly. Image from wikimedia commons The text below is taken from the outstanding book “playing the enemy”, by John Carlin – a book about

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Shared by Nick Milton February 5, 2019

KM supports decision making, but which decisions?

Favorite There is a strong argument that the purpose of Knowledge Management is decision support. But which decisions should KM support? Peter Senge tells us that Knowledge is the ability to make effective decisions, and the new ISO standard 30401:2018 tells us that knowledge is “human or organizational asset enabling effective

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Shared by Nick Milton February 4, 2019

How KM gives benchmarking a purpose

Favorite KM can add purpose to internal benchmarking, by using it to drive knowledge sharing Image from wikimedia commons Many commercial organisations track internal KPIs.  They publish league tables of the different departments, and differentiate the high performers, and the poor performers. But Why? What’s the point? Surely not just

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Shared by Nick Milton February 1, 2019