What does a knowledge auditor do?

Favorite What is the role of a knowledge auditor, and what is knowledge auditing? Every so often, a company may hold a knowledge audit. The objective of the audit is to look at the knowledge within the company, and see whether it is being properly managed.  The purpose of the

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Shared by Nick Milton May 11, 2018

How Fluor raise the profile of KM – "Knowvember"

Favorite Fluor, the construction company, use the month of Knowvember” as an opportunity to publicise KM internally. Fluor are an international engineering and construction company, who have been applying a Knowledge management approach, based primarily on Communities of Practice, for nearly 20 years. And with a long-running program such as

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Shared by Nick Milton May 10, 2018

How emergency services developed a capability for Lessons Management

Favorite Lesson Management is a core component of Lesson Learning. Here are the story of how this capability was developed in Australian emergency services.  This comes from the recent issue of the Australian Journal of Emergency Management, where Heather Stuart and Mark Thomason describe how Lesson Management was first recognised

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Shared by Nick Milton May 9, 2018

"Reminder" meetings and how they work

Favorite Here is a new and interesting approach to cross-office knowledge sharing; the Reminder meetings. delegates at KAConnect Last week I was speaking at the excellent KAConnect conference in San Francisco – a meeting of people from the Architecture and Engineering industry, many of them users of the Synthesis Intranet

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Shared by Nick Milton May 8, 2018

Selecting KM pilots to address non-Quality

Favorite Among many interesting discussions at the KAConnect 2018 conference was one on selecting KM pilots focused on reducing the cost of non-quality.  Participants at KA connect 2018 The conversation was, as many KM conversations are, about Value. The annual KAConnect conference is for the Architecture and Engineering community, and

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Shared by Nick Milton May 7, 2018

6 Ps for the knowledge champion

Favorite Courtesy of Andrew Trickett, from Arup, here are 6 Ps that knowledge champions and knowledge managers must demonstrate Knowledge champions are an important part of many KM programs, extending the reach and influence of the KM team and acting as ambassadors for, and facilitators of, KM in their part

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Shared by Nick Milton May 4, 2018

4 myths of the Enterprise wiki

Favorite An article from 2009 gives us 3 reasons why wikis are not the easy route to KM that many believe. I have added a fourth This comes from an article in pcworld based on a interview with Danish Analyst Dorthe Jespersen. Dorthe’s believes that the organisational culture can be

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Shared by Nick Milton May 3, 2018

Do youngsters have to "earn the right to know"?

Favorite Is it a valid view, that people on the receiving end of knowledge transfer should “earn the right to knowledge?” Image from wikimedia commons A couple of years ago, I was looking at the issue of knowledge transfer between experienced staff and young staff. There were a whole raft of issues

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Shared by Nick Milton May 2, 2018

KM and the cost of non-Quality

Favorite Part of the role of KM, particularly in manufacturing and production, is to reduce the cost of non-quality   When I started my Knowledge Management journey in 1992, my job post was entitled “Quality Advisor”. I was accountable for the quality of the geoscientific work in the BP Norway office. Because

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Shared by Nick Milton May 1, 2018

What sort of KM training will your organisation need?

Favorite Implementing KM is a change process, part of which involves training. But what sort of training? UXD training, by Andy Bright on Flickr Introducing a knowledge management framework means introducing a set of roles and accountabilities, new processes, new technologies, and new governance frameworks. You can’t just introduce the

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Shared by Nick Milton April 30, 2018