10 ways in which Knowledge is like Electricity

Favorite A visit to an Electricity Substation got me thinking about how Knowledge and Electricity are alike, and how the electrical power grid of a country can form an analogy to the Knowledge management framework of an organisation. Public domain image from maxpixel Here are some of the ways 1)

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Shared by Nick Milton July 9, 2019

The Knowledge Management "What’s in it for me"

Favorite Knowledge Management will work in an organisation when there is something of value in it for the people involved. WIIFM by Nathan Stephens on Flickr This is what we call the “principle of local value” – the WIIFM for the KM user. If KM is of local value, it

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Shared by Nick Milton July 8, 2019

How knowledge can be "the thread through the labyrinth"

Favorite “The thread through the labyrinth” is a metaphor for allowing others to follow our steps safely. This is what Knowledge can do.  German cave diver holding line, by Hossam El-Hamalawi on Flickr When Theseus negotiated Daedelus’ labyrinth in order to kill the Minotaur, he left a thread behind him

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Shared by Nick Milton July 5, 2019

Which 5 skills do you need on your KM team?

Favorite There are five key skills you need on a KM team, no matter what sort of organisation you are. Image from ROverhate (pixabay.com) via needpix Implementing Knowledge Management needs attention to many things – to People, Process and Technology, to Governance, Change Management, to Collecting knowledge and Connecting people,

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Shared by Nick Milton July 4, 2019

Build a custom vocabulary to enhance speech-to-text transcription accuracy with Amazon Transcribe

Favorite Amazon Transcribe is a fully-managed automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to applications. Depending on your use case, you may have domain-specific terminology that doesn’t transcribe properly (e.g. “EBITDA” or “myocardial infarction”). In this post, we will show you how

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 3, 2019

Deploying PyTorch inference with MXNet Model Server

Favorite Training and inference are crucial components of a machine learning (ML) development cycle. During the training phase, you teach a model to address a specific problem. Through this process, you obtain binary model files ready for use in production. For inference, you can choose among several framework-specific solutions for

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 2, 2019

Winning by eliminating mistakes

Favorite In some settings, winning by eliminating mistakes is the best strategy Image from wikimedia commons Wimbledon fortnight has started in the UK – the two weeks of the year when the TV schedules are taken over by professional tennis. This reminded me of a post from the excellent Farnham Street

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Shared by Nick Milton July 2, 2019