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Favorite KM Pilots are a key step in agile KM implementation, but how many pilots do you run? Knowledge Management pilot projects are a core componment of KM implementation. As we explained last month, a pilot project uses KM to solve a business problem in order to test and demonstrate
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Shared by Nick Milton February 14, 2018
Favorite There is a well known saying; “Good, Fast, Cheap – pick any two.” It’s wrong. Good Fast Cheap by CEA+ on Flickr The idea behind this saying is that there is a certain amount of work to be done to deliver a task, service or product, and that work
Read More Shared by Nick Milton February 13, 2018
Favorite The Connect and Collect approaches in KM are like the left leg and the right leg- you need to use both. image from PublicDomain Pictures I was working with a client last week who is very interested and enthused about the use of Knowledge Management Processes to drive conversations
Read More Shared by Nick Milton February 12, 2018
Favorite Too much knowledge is a bad thing. It’s better to drink from the fountain, than be hit by the firehose. Larry Prusak and Tom Davenport wrote in their classic book “Working Knowledge” that “Knowledge can move down the value chain, returning to information and data. The most common reason
Read More Shared by Nick Milton February 9, 2018
Favorite The almost inevitable outcome of “now knowing what you don’t know” is wishful thinking. Even the use of benchmarks may not help. Wishful thinking is one of the curses of project management. Any project team without a perfect knowledge of the challenges that they will face in a project,
Read More Shared by Nick Milton February 8, 2018
Favorite Last week I described a “Pull cycle” for knowledge – let’s now look at the feedback loops in that cycle. You can find description of the cycle here. This is a cycle based on knowledge demand (unlike the supply-side cycles you normally see) and includes the following steps; The
Read More Shared by Nick Milton February 7, 2018
Favorite This post from the archives describes a strange statement from a client, and some of the thoughts it raised for me at the time. “Today we get married to Knowledge Management” That was the, shall we say, “unusual” statement made by the convener of a KM seminar that I
Read More Shared by Nick Milton February 6, 2018
Favorite Even in the most progressive organisations, sometimes the boss needs to drive a “culture of asking.” Here is how Elon Musk did it. Image from wikimedia commons Musk’s email is quoted here, and seems to have been sent in response to a dissatisfaction with default communication and knowledge sharing
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Favorite One of the most important elements for a successful community of practice is the Charter. But why is this? Setting up an online Community of Practice can sometimes feel like going out to sea in an open boat. You are never sure what is going to happen. There are
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Favorite Reposting this article by Nadeem Unuth basically about how to create free cell phone service and/or freely add additional devices to an existing paid service you’re using. The section of the article about the bandwidth you’ll need has been edited to correct an error in the original content e.g., voice communication
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Shared by Friends of Mayor Densmore February 1, 2018