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Favorite Incrementalism will not work as a way to introduce Knowledge Management. KM is a mindshift – a giant leap – not a series of small steps. One giant leap by Vivobarefoot on Flickr Incrementalism is a method of working or changing by using many small incremental changes instead of
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Shared by Nick Milton January 22, 2021
Favorite The risk of loss of the status quo can be a powerful disincentive for change, and can be a powerful factor working against knowledge management implementation. There is a very apt quote from Machiavelli (The Prince, 1532), which applies to Knowledge Management as it does to any change initiative:
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Favorite If Knowledge Management is like gardening and the knowledge manager is like a gardener (see here to understand the metaphor), then Internal competition is like a late frost that kills all your green shoots. Frosted by Lauryn on Flickr There is no point in planting the seeds of Knowledge
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Favorite It’s the ultimate chicken and egg situation. KM requires a supportive culture, yet how do you develop the culture without doing KM? Should you wait for the culture to change, and then start your KM initiative, or should you start your KM initiative knowing you have to battle against
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Favorite Nobody will look for knowledge from others if they think they already know what to do, and you cannot teach anyone anything if they think they know it already. Therefore the most effective way to promote a desire to learn in an organisation, is to move people out of
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Favorite Is KM change better seen as top-down, or bottom-up? The answer is Neither; it’s side to side. Lighting a prescribed fire, from nps.gov Thanks to Steve Dale for alerting me to this post from Digital Tonto entitled “True Transformation Isn’t Top-Down Or Bottom-Up, But Side-To-Side, which offers a really
Read More Shared by Nick Milton July 18, 2019
Favorite In a great blog post, Seth Kahan shares 7 lessons on KM change programs In the post from 2009, Seth talks about leading KM change at World Bank, and contrasts his first KM initiative (which failed) with his second (which succeeded). The first initiative was “was comprised of a few
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