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Favorite You are invited to take part in the 2023 Knoco global survey of KM. What is this survey? This is a survey of what organisations around the world are doing under the heading of “Knowledge Management”. This is the 4th survey in a series; the previous surveys were held
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Shared by Nick Milton August 21, 2023
Favorite For the second year in a row, the Open Source Initiative and OpenLogic by Perforce collaborated to launch a global survey about the use of Open Source software in organizations. We drew hundreds of responses from all over the world, and once again, the results are illustrative of the Open
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Shared by voicesofopensource January 25, 2023
Favorite Introducing Knowledge Management is likely to take a decade before it is fully embedded. Here are some benchmark statistics Over the past few decades we have helped many organisations to benchmark their current status of Knowledge Management. They ask for this service for a number of reasons. Sometimes they
Read More Shared by Nick Milton January 31, 2022
Favorite A month ago, I opened a survey to investigate how KM has fared during the pandemic and associated recession. Here are the results. We conducted the last of our three triennial Knoco Global Surveys of Knowledge Management in 2020, and these reflect the state of KM in organisations prior
Read More Shared by Nick Milton May 4, 2021
Favorite Please take 5 minutes to reply to this short survey on how the Covid pandemic and accompanying recession has affected KM Image from wikimedia commons If you were involved in an organisational Knowledge Management program a year ago, at the start of the recession, please consider answering the short
Read More Shared by Nick Milton March 31, 2021
Favorite Improved access to documents is the second-most common strategic approach to KM. How is this improved access delivered? A question in our 2017 and 2020 surveys asked respondents how explicit or documented knowledge is managed. The question was phrased as follows: Which of the following most closely represents the organisation’s
Read More Shared by Nick Milton November 20, 2020
Favorite The 2020 Knoco survey shows (among very many other interesting things) data on how organisations plan to use the ISO 30401 standard. I have further analysed the dataset to see how the planned usage varies with KM maturity. 213 people answered the question, and the answers are shown in
Read More Shared by Nick Milton October 9, 2020
Favorite A few years ago I compared published cultural dimensions for various countries against a proxy measure of KM maturity. This blog post repeats that analysis with more recent, and more complete, data. One of the most famous (although controversial) studies of national culture was by Geert Hofstede. Hofstede looked
Read More Shared by Nick Milton August 10, 2020
Favorite There are a number of ways to incentivise KM, but which ones work? I blogged yesterday about an article which confirms that financial incentives for sharing knowledge can easily backfire, but which incentives actually work? We can answer this question with data from the Knoco KM surveys in 2014,
Read More Shared by Nick Milton July 3, 2020
Favorite As part of our three global surveys of Knowledge Management professionals in 2014, 2017 and 2020, we asked the participants to select from a list the Knowledge Management governance elements that had in place in their organisation. The results are shown here. Most of the survey respondents reported at least one
Read More Shared by Nick Milton June 23, 2020