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Favorite Is anonymity a good thing in online organisational (in-company) knowledge sharing forums? I suggest it is not, and my reasoning is below. Public domain image from SVG When you first set up knowledge sharing forums, it can be tempting to allow people to contribute anonymously, to reduce their fear
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Shared by Nick Milton December 6, 2018
Favorite Fuzzy statements in lessons learned are very common, and are the result of “the curse of knowledge” Fuzzy MonsterClip art courtesy of DailyClipArt.net I blogged yesterday about Statements of the Blindingly Obvious, and how you often find these in explicit knowledge bases and lessons learned systems, as a by-product of the
Read More Shared by Nick Milton December 5, 2018
Favorite The curse of knowledge is the cognitive bias that leads to your Lesson Database being full of “statements of the obvious” There is an interesting exercise you can do, to show how difficult it is to transfer knowledge. This is the Newton tapper-listener exercise from 1990. Form participants into
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Favorite Lesson learning, though a simple idea, faces many barriers to its successful deployment. Here are 14 of them. I posted, back in 2009, a list of 100 ways in which you could wreck organisational lesson-learning. These were taken from my book, The Lessons-Learned Handbook, and represent the many ways
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Favorite The whole purpose of community is enabling people to help each other. Vkw.studiogood [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons The primary vision of Community is a group of people who help each other. This might be an Amish community raising a barn, pooling their strength and skills to help
Read More Shared by Nick Milton November 30, 2018
Favorite There is a common fallacy, that creating a SharePoint site creates a community of practice. In reality it seldom does. Photo © Oxymoron (cc-by-sa/2.0) I posted a couple of days ago about why some Communities of Practice die young. One common cause of early Community die-back is when a well-meaning person
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Favorite It’s always good to cross-check our KM programs against lists of failure and success factors. Here are two pretty comprehensive lists. Two of the most popular posts on this blog are “Top 7 tips for Knowledge Management Success” and “Top 7 reasons why Knowledge Management implementations fail.” I
Read More Shared by Nick Milton November 27, 2018
Favorite It is not uncommon for communities of practice to start with passion and intent, and to fade away and die out over a period of months. Here are 4 possible reasons why. Image from wikimedia commons I have just been reading a very interesting article entitled The Rise and
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Favorite If you hear any of these statements in the corridors around your organisation, then you need a better approach to Knowledge Management. Why do we keep having to re-learn this lesson? I’m sure I heard someone mention that to me the other day, now who was it? I am
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Favorite The video below is from the USAID-supported Vrisshi project in India, funded to scale up advances in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (+ adolescents as well). The video talks about a knowledge base, or collection of publications, that was created through the project for use by medical and
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