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Favorite You need a strategy if your KM introduction and deployment is to be successful. Here are 10 reasons why. Implementing (or Introducing) Knowledge Management without a strategy is a risky endeavour. As Sun Tzu is reputed to have said said, in “the art of war”, “Strategy without tactics is
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Shared by Nick Milton November 7, 2022
Favorite You need a strategy if your KM implementation is to be successful. Here are 8 reasons why. Implementing Knowledge Management without a strategy is a risky endeavour. As Sun Tzu is reputed to have said said, in “the art of war”, “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Read More Shared by Nick Milton September 12, 2022
Favorite The world is too complex for us to get things right first time. So what matters is the speed at which we adapt and learn. Image from wikimedia commons The British historian Michael Howard wrote, on the subject of military doctrine, “I am tempted to say that whatever doctrine
Read More Shared by Nick Milton April 12, 2021
Favorite The difference between Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Management lies in three words – systematic, routine, strategic. Quite often we find clients who don’t like the term “knowledge management” and prefer something like “knowledge sharing” instead. Often this comes from the assumption that “knowledge management” means “the management of knowledge”,
Read More Shared by Nick Milton December 9, 2020
Favorite In 2006, the World Health Organisation published a regional KM strategy for Health in Africa. This suggested approach for developing a regional KM strategy could potentially be used in other political contexts. Image under CC licence from pxherecreated by Mohamed Hasan Knowledge Management is not just for industry or
Read More Shared by Nick Milton November 30, 2020
Favorite Knowledge Management plans exist at many scales. Here are 4 of them. KM planning session Implementing KM is a project, and a prject needs a plan. However KM can be implemented at many scales, and many variants of KM plan may be needed. In this post we describe 4
Read More Shared by Nick Milton September 14, 2020
Favorite It’s not often you see a public review of a KM Strategy – here is a good example. Image by Stefan Erschwendner, on Flickr I blogged yesterday about Oxfam’s KM strategy. Oxfam referred to knowledge and to knowledge management several times in their 2013 to 2019 strategic plan, which allowed
Read More Shared by Nick Milton August 18, 2020
Favorite A KM strategy map is a great way to visually connect KM activity and organisational strategy. Here is an example. Last week I blogged about Knowledge Management at Oxfam, and shared their Rights and Responsibilities table. In today’s post I use Oxfam again, as a demonstration of how to
Read More Shared by Nick Milton August 17, 2020
Favorite A knowledge management strategy is not set in stone. It is not a fixed, immutable 5-year roadmap – it needs to change as the business landscape change. But who should steer these changes? Who is in the driving seat? Image by Ivan Radic on Flickr Does the KM team
Read More Shared by Nick Milton August 3, 2020
Favorite Here is another excellent article from Tom Davenport, one of the clearest writers on the topic of Knowledge Management, making the case for a structured “just-in-time” approach to the supply of knowledge. Tom starts his article as follows: In the half-century since Peter Drucker coined the term “knowledge workers,”
Read More Shared by Nick Milton July 23, 2020