The knowledge cycle as you have never seen it before

Favorite We are used to seeing pictures of knowledge cycles, but there is one cycle you never see, and it’s very important. You can find very many versions of the knowledge cycle, and they all seem to work the same way. They start with “Create” or “Capture”, and progress through

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Shared by Nick Milton January 29, 2018

Why Yammer’s default question is unhelpful

Favorite If you agree with me that the greatest value in organisational online discussion comes through answering questions, then Yammer’s default prompt does not help. “What are you working on?” asks Yammer – as a work-related version of the Facebook question “What’s on your mind”. As a way of getting

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Shared by Nick Milton July 18, 2017

The Knowledge Batphone – a role for KM?

Favorite One of the temporary roles a KM team can take on is to be an organisation helpdesk, manning the Batphone. The batphone, by heven’t the slightest, on Flickr Imagine you are starting a KM project. You are extolling the virtues of KM, and the benefits of seeking and reusing

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Shared by Nick Milton July 4, 2017

The 8 demand-side principles for KM

Favorite Here is another reprised post from the archives – as relevant now as it was 5 years ago. David Snowden’s 7 principles for Knowledge Management are justly famous in the KM literature as a simple and accessible set of principles. However they all relate to the supply side of knowledge

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Shared by Nick Milton June 5, 2017