Doing KM "the right way around"

Favorite Say what you like about the ISO KM standard; at least it encourages you to address KM in the correct order! There are many approaches adopted for introducing KM, and not all of them work well. For example the historically common approach of “Technology Push” – where an organisation

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Shared by Nick Milton January 7, 2020

Why its good to treat KM as one discipline among many

Favorite There’s nothing magic about Knowledge management; it’s just a management discipline, like so many others. I would suggest that Knowledge Management is one management discipline among many. It represents a way of managing work, paying due attention to the value and effect of an intangible asset (namely, knowledge). It

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Shared by Nick Milton January 6, 2020

Building a custom classifier using Amazon Comprehend

Favorite Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML) to find insights and relationships in texts. Amazon Comprehend identifies the language of the text; extracts key phrases, places, people, brands, or events; and understands how positive or negative the text is. For more information

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning December 25, 2019

End of year break

Favorite This blog is taking an end-year break.  Happy Holidays to all my readers; normal service will be resumed in January.  View Original Source (nickmilton.com) Here.

Amazon Textract becomes PCI DSS certified, and retrieves even more data from tables and forms

Favorite Amazon Textract automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents, and goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields and information in tables, without templates, configuration, or machine learning experience required. Customers such as Intuit, PitchBook, Change Healthcare, Alfresco, and more are already

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning December 19, 2019

Why "Knowledge for action" is better than "knowledge for storage"

Favorite Knowledge has to lead to action in order to add value.  call to action by Sean MacEntee on Flickr As the blogger Bill Wilson says (in the context of root cause analysis) “Learning without action is mere mental trickery, while action without learning is simply useless physical exercise”.  If knowledge management is

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Shared by Nick Milton December 18, 2019

Running distributed TensorFlow training with Amazon SageMaker

Favorite TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning (ML) library widely used to develop heavy-weight deep neural networks (DNNs) that require distributed training using multiple GPUs across multiple hosts. Amazon SageMaker is a managed service that simplifies the ML workflow, starting with labeling data using active learning, hyperparameter tuning, distributed training

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning December 18, 2019

Embedding KM in the heartbeat of work

Favorite Work has its own rhythms; its own heartbeat. Make KM part of that heartbeat.  Image from wikimedia commons Work has cycles and rhythms; an organisational heartbeat if you will. Embedding Knowledge Management means making it part of that heartbeat, so that it becomes a natural component of the operation

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Shared by Nick Milton December 17, 2019